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Offline anijen21

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Re: What books do you like the least?
« Reply #120 on: October 14, 2009, 01:03:50 PM »
god I totally agree about Cassie's books. I just read the buffa-human one again and I could barely get through it. IT'S 30 PAGES SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE BOOK.

I mean, I think the basic thing is, the ones that BLATANTLY AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY contradicted something that had already happened in canon. The buffa-human, for example, should have been ENTIRELY IMPOSSIBLE since it's well established in the first decade of books that concentration is completely vital for a morph to work, and it's very easy to get distracted. Not to mention the hypocrisy within the book "oh the poor buffa-human it's not his fault he's a freak now let's nurture him and try to teach him english OH MY GOD THAT ANT MORPHED ME KILL IT KILL IT LET IT BURN IN THE FIRES OF A THOUSAND HELLS AHHHH"
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Re: What books do you like the least?
« Reply #121 on: October 14, 2009, 01:06:45 PM »
I think I had a hard time going through the book too. It was just too weird. I call Discontinuity.
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Re: What books do you like the least?
« Reply #122 on: October 15, 2009, 09:59:04 AM »
i know its not cannon or whatever, but alternamorphs 2 pissed me off with how bad the characterization of the animorphs was, im pretty sure vegemorphs did a better job.
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #123 on: October 15, 2009, 06:02:05 PM »
I didn't like #7, don ask me why, it seemed like nothing really happened, except that they destroyed the kandrona which they had to pay for later.
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #124 on: October 15, 2009, 11:42:34 PM »
Wasn't the Ellimist introduced in #7?  That was kinda important.   :P

Actually I don't think I liked that book all that much either.  The whole relocation-to-another-planet thing was weird.
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #125 on: October 15, 2009, 11:53:20 PM »
I didn't like the one where Jake goes away, and Rachel's in charge. Her character seemed all wrong.  :-\
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #126 on: October 16, 2009, 03:09:53 PM »
Ugh, buffa-human. I dunno about the worst ones (as 11 was pretty bad), but continuity-wise, I feel like Cassie contributed the least. Too much morality, too little contribution from the books with her POV. #4 brings in Ax, which is obviously important, but beyond that she doesn't add much. #9 (with the logging company) had the skunk kits drowning out the actual story, #14 stated in the actual text that it was all a useless mission, #19 sees her turn her back on the Animorphs, #24 has Helmacrons, etc, etc. Until #50, all we really see is bleeding heart sentimentality. I just wish Cassie's books had added more to the storyline.
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #127 on: October 16, 2009, 03:49:15 PM »
Yeah, I thought all of the Helmachron books were the worst.
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #128 on: October 16, 2009, 06:18:25 PM »
Ugh ugh ugh, I just finished #39, and I want some brain-bleach and a blowtorch.  UNCLEAN!  UNCLEAN!

Honestly, how out of character was their plan?  There's a helicopter that needs to be destroyed.  We can't go inside it, because there might be Taxxons and Hork-Bajir in there!  And they're dangerous!  So, instead, LET'S DROP A WHALE ON IT!!!  I mean, what could possibly go wrong?  Not only do helicopters, in fact, move, as was seen in the book, but they have these little blades on top that might possibly tend to hurt when you land on them.  Just maybe.

The Animorphs have come up with some pretty hare-brained schemes in their time, but that one took the cake for sheer "What were you thinking?!" ridiculousity.

I was bothered by #37, too.  Yes, yes, we get it, Rachel is reckless.  But the key point, which they totally missed, is that she is only reckless with her own life.  She would never flagrantly risk the other Animorphs' lives the way she did in that book.  That made me mad, when she wouldn't even listen to Marco trying to tell her "Hey, yanno, we could all die.  Just sayin'."  The Rachel from the rest of the books would have listened to him.

I didn't have a problem with the first helmacron book, actually.  At that point, they were even kinda cute, in a totally lunatic kind of way.  Sure, they seemed to be there mostly for comic relief, but they were still an interesting race.

The second helmacron book (which I'm re-reading now) always struck me as being too contrived.  Like they were just looking for a way to get the Animorphs to go inside the human body, and the whole plot was basically just an excuse to stage a Magic School Bus field trip.  Nothing against Magic School Bus.  But it, and Animorphs, were never meant to mix.
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #129 on: October 16, 2009, 07:26:03 PM »
MM4! It's so boring that it should be used for torture in the prisons. It didnt even happen in the end...
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #130 on: October 17, 2009, 08:30:34 PM »
Perhaps, but in the same vein as #41 (didn't really happen), it does show the interation between our choices and reality. Does nothing for the continuity, but it does bring up certain personality traits and expresses that everything results from individual action, not fate-tied events.
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #131 on: October 18, 2009, 01:10:26 PM »
Actually, #41 was probably one of the worst for me... There was absolutely no closure with that one... who knows what actually happened, and do we ever see those cool, "clear"-bodied aliens again??? Noooo...  >:(

I think Alternamorphs 2 was the worst for me... I never did shake the feeling that I was supposed to be David... and that just doesn't sit well with me. :no:
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #132 on: October 18, 2009, 02:56:05 PM »
Actually, I really liked both #41, and Megamorphs #4.

I just re-read #41 recently, in fact, and I think it even ranks among my favorite books of all time.  It's really a very profound book, so long as you don't try too hard to make sense out of it.  I've decided that the whole thing was probably just a dream sequence, and, while that particular tactic is seen as a "cheat" by a lot of books (to pull the 'it was all a dream' twist is all-too-often a cop-out to save an un-resolvable plot), I think it worked very well in this book.  It shows a lot of insight into Jake's character, just by way of the fact that he even has dreams like that.

Megamorphs #4 wasn't nearly as high on my favorites list as #41, in fact I might be inclined to think that it was too much a "worst-case scenario" to be very realistic.  Still, I wouldn't quite call it boring, or suggest it to be used for torture.  It showed that the Animorphs couldn't have had normal lives outside the war, which is an important point, although the book could certainly have made it better.  It was a little too "Murphy's law," if you know what I mean.
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #133 on: October 18, 2009, 03:08:03 PM »
You mean, like, Tobias a controller, Rachel and Marco dating, dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!!
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Re: Worst Animorph Books
« Reply #134 on: October 18, 2009, 03:26:07 PM »
Quote from: adeon222 on October 18, 2009, 03:08:03 PM
You mean, like, Tobias a controller, Rachel and Marco dating, dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!!

Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

Not to mention, we're talking about a world in which Ax liked Oreos instead of Cinnamon buns, here!  Oh, the insanity!
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