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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #210 on: March 05, 2009, 09:55:00 PM »
The thing that annoys me the most is just the fact that so many people insist on making unrealistic sequel's to book 54. I've seen maybe one or two people do well, but the rest fail miserably.
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #211 on: March 05, 2009, 09:57:25 PM »
She didn't start a new story.  She introduced another crazy badass omnipotent being and showed Jake rounding up the ol' gunslingers and taking them down fighting.  That's not a new story, that's just a fitting final hurrah.  That entire book builds up to Jake needing to fight the good fight, it's become a part of him.  Tobias has nothing else to live for, and Marco's bored out of his brain.

That was all totally in-character and fitting with the way the books had presented themselves all along.  There's nothing you need to know about The One and the Kelbrid aside from "Jake's not going to go down without putting up a fight".  That's it.  That's all there is, and all there really needs to be.

It also serves as an unbelievably awesome parallel to Rachel, which was established a few times in the books prior.  Jake has a reckless side, it just doesn't rear its ugly head as often as Rachel let it do with herself.
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #212 on: March 05, 2009, 10:01:32 PM »
This isn't a discuss the end of animorphs thread, we've got like 10 of those.
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #213 on: March 05, 2009, 10:17:30 PM »
Quote from: ChimichangaChupacabra on March 05, 2009, 09:37:15 PM
You know, just throwing this out there, maybe she hoped she didn't have to choose?  That her readers would get it?

All in all, I think she probably just thought too highly of her audience.  And it was a mistake, as shown by the decade-long moaning and groaning.
That's a poor presumption about those who did not like the ending  >:( ! Are you really implying that those who did not like the ending are immature or stupid? It's not simply a matter of "getting it", since there are many legitimate reasons for disliking (or liking) the ending in other threads. Besides, The One is an interpretation, so ultimately it's a matter of opinion anyways.
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #214 on: March 05, 2009, 10:19:22 PM »
Quote from: rossabo on March 05, 2009, 10:17:30 PM
Quote from: ChimichangaChupacabra on March 05, 2009, 09:37:15 PM
You know, just throwing this out there, maybe she hoped she didn't have to choose?  That her readers would get it?

All in all, I think she probably just thought too highly of her audience.  And it was a mistake, as shown by the decade-long moaning and groaning.
That's a poor presumption about those who did not like the ending  >:( ! Are you really implying that those who did not like the ending are immature or stupid? It's not simply a matter of "getting it", since there are many legitimate reasons for disliking (or liking) the ending in other threads. Besides, The One is an interpretation, so ultimately it's a matter of opinion anyways.

While I might agree, we should discuss the ending in the threads for it.
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #215 on: March 05, 2009, 10:32:12 PM »
ya i didnt want to start a discussion! i was just sayin i agree with nohensen
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #216 on: March 05, 2009, 11:40:32 PM »
I can't say I loved the ending, but I clearly didn't hate it. I accepted it, I accepted the death of Rachel and all the bad stuff. I'd prefer if Katherine wrote a longer ending, explaining more about what happened after the end of the war... But I always accepted her choices.
I think writing the end of a novel or a serie is the hardest thing, because there'll be somebody, at least one person, who will totally disagree with it. But what you said is right, Nohensen: she stayed true with her heart ^^
Same for Remnants' end. The saddest is that wouldn't be true for Everworld, if she stopped because it wasn't a big success, as I heard...
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #217 on: March 05, 2009, 11:42:41 PM »
Quote from: Phoenix004 on March 05, 2009, 09:43:54 PM
To be fair, even if you hated the ending you have to admit there wasn't really a better way of doing it. Besides, it is pretty damn difficult to write a so called "proper" ending to a series. A lot of them end up being dull (eg. happily ever after) or incredibly depressing (eg. everyone dies).

true. i mean, we'd be a lot angrier if she just didn't ever right #54.
she could have come up with a better title though. (well, i didn't like it)
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #218 on: March 05, 2009, 11:43:36 PM »
Quote from: Vissa Tre on March 05, 2009, 10:01:32 PM
This isn't a discuss the end of animorphs thread

Actually, it pretty much is.  See the original post.   ;)
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Re: I do understand her better now.
« Reply #219 on: March 05, 2009, 11:45:09 PM »
Oh, then its locked cause we have one already.
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Re: The ending
« Reply #220 on: March 05, 2009, 11:45:35 PM »
bump.
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Re: The ending
« Reply #221 on: March 05, 2009, 11:48:58 PM »
thanks for the bump. may i suggest we merge the two threads rather than just locking the other one?
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Re: The ending
« Reply #222 on: March 05, 2009, 11:51:23 PM »
No, that'll just turn it into a big jumbled cluster****.
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Re: The ending
« Reply #223 on: March 05, 2009, 11:57:02 PM »
Quote from: ChimichangaChupacabra on March 05, 2009, 11:51:23 PM
No, that'll just turn it into a big jumbled cluster****.

not really, all the posts in the other thread were made after feb. 28th. it'll just place it at the end.
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Re: The Ending/ I do understand her better now.
« Reply #224 on: March 06, 2009, 12:00:15 AM »
Please continue with the topic that was being discussed.  And try and be nice.
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