Just as a final thought for the night (or...morning) before I head to bed.
I'm really really hoping that she doesn't actually have more books planned in her head, and she's holding out for money, or she can't be bothered to write them unless she gets money...if that's true that's just...tragic.
I mean, when I think about it from a writer's perspective (And I don't mean I'm any good or that I am published, I am neither, I am speaking ONLY from the perspective of someone who really enjoys writing,) How sad is it that an artist become so thoroughly disenchanted with their own work that they simply cannot bother to finish it?
I mean, it's like Vincent van Gogh painting half of Starry Starry Night...and then just stopping and saying 'eh, i'll finish if someone tosses me a couple bucks.'
Its YOUR ART, don't you LIKE it? Don't you WANT to see it finished? And I don't mean unicorns and fairies and glitter happy for all ending, I mean, just finishing it, period.
I don't know, if animorphs was my series (or, if any book was my own), I don't care if only two souls bought my copies, I would want it to be finished and complete, I don't think I'd be able to NOT write the ending. I'm not saying she should obsess over it or it should run her life or anything, but how can she truly be so un-invested with something of her own creation that she can't even be BOTHERED to finish it?
That's really sad. I really thought Animorphs was a series that was good enough that it deserved a proper ending. I think a lot of people did.
Know what's even more sad? There are lots of fan ficers out there that have made attempts to finish the series themselves, how can it be that your fans are more invested in YOUR work than YOU are?
Tragic. (Ok, maybe tragic is a rather melodramatic word, but I can't really think of any other word to describe it except sad, and I've already used that word fifteen times.)
It really makes me question the quality of the ending. If she really is so disinterested in her own series, can I really interpret the ending anything more than just a throw-away? A way to kill off all the characters in a way that looks psuedo-interesting so she can attempt to make us believe that she didn't just want to hurry up and be done with animorphs? I mean, if that was all it was she should have at least had the courtesy to write "and then they all killed themselves because they couldn't get over it the end. Except for Cassie because she's special." At least it would have been more closure than "wait...what happened to Ax? And how, exactly, is ramming the bladeship going to fix anything?"
I'll make my attempt to debunk or confirm in the morning. I think its bed time.