I just finished the last book

[VisserZer0]

I didn't like #54 much and I seem to remember someone spoiling it for me that Rachel dies.    Why did Tom have to die?  There goes Jake's dream of FINALLY getting his real brother back.  He never even got a chance to speak to him again.  I wish theie would have been more Ax and Tobias chapters, also.

[Robcola21]

I stopped reading the series when i was younger about halfway through, i still loved it but it died out in my hometown and the animorphs club my friends and i made also died. God i miss the 90's and elementary school...anyways i recently started reading them again and i skipped ahead to the very last book and the Ellimist chronicles.

The last book made me really sad. I cried, mainly for Rachel and Tobias. I still get choked up that they didn't get a happily ever after. Rachel was my favorite, Tobias was my second favorite, and then Jake and soo on...

I think the author did a great job at finishing it without finishing it. I loved how she made Jake go a little insane and how she let Cassie move on.

How do i feel about this book? I feel incomplete and like a continuation is long over due.

[adeon222]

It's one of those things that you just can't quite put a finger on... The ending just doesn't feel right...
I think the whole thing is Jake's fault... He kinda got really messed up in the head, and came up with this complex battle plan that 'worked' in the end, but probably could've been a little more complete and polished, if he weren't a nervous wreck dealing with the lives of the people he cared about the most...

Jake is my favorite character, and I really felt kinda sorry for him throughout the books...

I have a question, though: Why did Rachel have to die? Could she not have lived a normal life after the war? Was she so changed that she really couldn't live without the war, as Jake seems to have believed?
Personally, I believe that she could've adjusted just fine, with help from Tobias and her family... She didn't need the slaughter. I just don't believe that that one part of her became her one need through it all.

[Robcola21]

i think Rachel dying had more to do with her eagerness to fight. She just kind of threw herself into dangerous situations, and it just kind of caught up with her.  I think in the effort to end the war, it probably could have been done differently if certain other things happened instead, but in this case it was necessary.

[Johnny Xtreme]

ATTENTION: Here is a true ending for the Animorphs series that ALL fans will appreciate. This ENTIRE series NEVER actually happened. I repeat this ENTIRE series NEVER actually happened. The Animorphs series, every single book is a POSSIBLE future.

Let me explain.

We all know of the Andalite Seerow and of course Seerow's Kindness. He gave interstellar travel to the Yeerks which allowed them to leave their homeworld and travel the stars. They immediatly started infesting other races like the Taxxons, and Hork-Bajir then finally humans.

We also know of the Ellimist who are very powerful and can alter space and time, but do not interfere unless intelligent life is threatned. Now that the facts are stated here's my ending.

Right before they enter the Blade ship (FADE OUT). The Ellimist and Seerow are standing on the Yeerk homeworld. The Ellimist turns to look at Seerow and says to him "What you saw is what will transpire if you give the Yeerks the power to travel the stars. You will be responsible for the death and enslavement of COUNTLESS intelligent beings."

Seerow has a look of absolute horror on his face. He replies <I did not posses the knowledge of the consequences of my actions. If I had I would not have made that decision. I would not have given the Yeerks the technology.>

The Ellimist fixed Seerow with an intense stare and replied "You now posses that knowledge. You may still give the Yeerks the technology OR leave this planet and never return."

"What is your decision?"

For Seerow, there was no choice involved.

THE END

That is how Applegate should have ended it. No cliff-hangers, but a perfect unexpected twist that wil make jaws hit the floor. The idea actually popped into my head and I haven't even finished the series. I don't actually know 100% how the series ended, but I've read enough to get the gist and I think my ending is better.

If you agree or disagree with my ending please let me know. I want it to be judged.

[Viss3r]

I'm sorry but I don't think that would work, I think it suffers more of the problems that 54 already has, thinking whats the point of it all... Mainly because you could assume 2 things, seerow dose the same thing, and its some temporal loop and you don't know what happens in the end. Or he leaves the yeerks homeworld and none of it ever existed.

But unlike some people I do really like the ellimist being involved.

[Chad32]

I don't really mind the Ellemist being involved. It was a good in-universe reason for why the Anis always survived. Then he dropped the ball in 54. Oops.

[voodooqueen126]

Look to me the ending: All the animorphs dying except sweet little authors mouthpiece Cassie bugs me.. why does it bug you Chad?

[Chad32]

there are a lot of reasons why the ending bugs me. The one or two dozen unresolved plot points. The death of Rachel and Tom. The fact that only three of the Anis are happy after the war, then one of those three gets assimilated and another possibly dies after ramming the bladeship. The only one left being Cassie, who abandoned Jake after he changed. Which reminds me of an old bible story about God carrying a man during his times of greatest need, instead of leaving him.

The final plan where they won only by lucking out that no one besides Tom on the Bladeship decided to shoot the poolship, and KA's justification for Rachel dying never making sense to me.

It was just horrible and in my opinion almost completely unsalvagable. Plus everyone thinks the ending would either be this or the other extreme instead of some middle ground in between.

[INH]

I...actually agree with most of what you said, now that I think about it.  But I think you missed one detail.

The final plan where they won only by lucking out that no one besides Tom on the Bladeship decided to shoot the poolship

During the fight, Rachel smashed the main weapons console.

The main weapons station was right there, a sort of waist-high, freestanding lectern.  I threw myself back into it and heard a nice crunch as it toppled.

I imagine that would have made it a little hard for them to fire on the Pool Ship.  There are also a few other mentions of Rachel smashing control panels or viewscreens, so who knows what else she could have broken.  Still, KAA could have emphasized this a bit more, so that less people missed it.

[Unknown User]

I actually enjoyed book fifty-four, it was kind of the way I figured things would end. I don't really know if I agree with Ax becoming possesed by that alien, he was my favorite Animorph, but I didn't think it ended to poorly and thought that it could have been worse.

[Chad32]

Oh yeah, she does smash some stuff. But you're telling me there's only one control consol for every gun on the ship? Or that the ship only has main guns? I guess it is believable, though.

[voodooqueen126]

But the proposed ending in which seerow basically presses the reset button would be a total cope out.

[INH]

Oh yeah, she does smash some stuff. But you're telling me there's only one control consol for every gun on the ship? Or that the ship only has main guns? I guess it is believable, though.

Well, we don't know much about the design of the Blade Ship.  The other cannons may not have been powerful enough to destroy the Pool Ship.  Or at least not powerful enough to destroy it quickly.

In any case, firing on the Pool Ship would have been more complicated and unpredictable than "fly up to the Pool Ship, turn our biggest guns on it, and blow it to smithereens."  With the andalites closing in on Earth, I can definitely see the yeerks deciding to forget them and just get out of the system.

[Viss3r]

I liked the final also, but I was a bit disappointed by Cassie, I tend to agree you could see that she was KA's Favourite character, so it’s a bit of a cop out.  I say that, mostly because I wish Tobias and Ax got more time in 54.  It could have been twice as long and not been dragged out.