I loved the whole series but I HATED THE ENDING! contains spoilers

[Blazing Angel]

I mean seriously "ram the ship" and then absolutely nothing the least she could have done is written a followup series.

[Dogman15]

You aren't the first to think that. Not by a long shot.

Personally, I'm okay with the ending, as it leaves a lot of options for fan fiction writers. I've read at least two post-54 stories that really turn the narrative around from that "low" point and bring it back to... whatever quantitative values you'd apply to the storyline before that.

[SuperBlue]

I don't like the ending either but there' a perfectly good explenation for why she ended it the way she did. I'm just too lazy to look for it.

BTW

Threads like these have been done to death sooo...yeah, try looking for a thread regarding the ending next time before you start another one

[QIfry]

It left several of us with an empty hole in our hearts and minds but she stated that the ending was meant to be "up to us" to solve.

But... I NEED an ending. I never saw an ending to my satisfaction like the Harry Potter epilogue. Now if she did something like that, it would have been great.

[Estelore]

Frankly, I love ambiguous endings that demand from the reader/viewer more than just observation, absorption, and playing the witness to story.

People around me get eaten up about Inception (movie), arguing that the ending is This or That...

...no, it's deliberately an ambiguous ending. The fact that you're TRYING to resolve it defeats the purpose. Asking the writer to resolve it for you just misses the point of it.
I don't consider it a cheap shot... I consider it a nod to the reader, a way to say, "Hey, you've stuck around with me this whole time... why don't YOU imagine it how you want, instead of me ruining your image by giving you an inarguable, permanent final mental image? You can write the ending in your own mind, and I don't have to destroy that for you. It's your story, now."

By leaving it open-ended, the author gives us complete free reign to believe what we want about the results of ramming the Blade Ship... and for that, I'm grateful to the author. No epilogue can match that. :]

[Myitt]

Yeah, I actually liked the ending.  It was a war story, plain and simple, and while I felt the last book was a bit rushed I think I would've been upset if everything had been resolved, and there had been a little epilogue with children's names, and everything was all hunky dory.  In fact I hated that about [spoiler=random Harry Potter spoiler] the Harry Potter ending.[/spoiler]

Also, yes please keep in mind to search for a thread topic using the convenient search box before posting a topic--this one's been covered, uncovered, rehashed, and debated back and forth for about the last ten years

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[Phoenix004]

It left several of us with an empty hole in our hearts and minds but she stated that the ending was meant to be "up to us" to solve.

But... I NEED an ending. I never saw an ending to my satisfaction like the Harry Potter epilogue. Now if she did something like that, it would have been great.

You're kidding right? I hated the Harry Potter epilogue ending. I didn't used to like the Animorphs ending either, but it's still better than the "and they all lived happily ever after" ending JK Rowling came up with.

I'm not a big fan of most post #54 fics though to be honest. I haven't read any in ages, but back when I did they were usually very unimaginative or badly written.

[Blazing Angel]

Actually I liked the harry potter ending cause everything was pretty much done. The only thing I dont like os that their isnt much explenation about whos kid is who and what their doing for cash.

[TobiasMasonPark]

    The whole book, for me at least, was so epic and emotional.

     Then, the Epilogue...It wasn't awful...It just happened. It was like J.K was out of ideas and wrote a quick ending.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Good lord, the only way I was even able to remain sane after reading Harry Potter was to just pretend the epilogue never happened.  It never happened, it never happened, IT NEVER HAPPENED.  *rocks back and forth in a corner*

More to the current subject, I both like and don't like the Animorphs ending.  I didn't used to like it AT ALL.  Now that I'm older, I do like the ambiguousness (that's apparently not a word), but I still feel like it was artificial, you know?  Like KA just went, "Hmm, this ending is too tidy, how can I mess it up?" rather than leaving a vague ending that feels like it should be vague.  I would have liked to see a final life-or-death showdown against some known enemy like the Yeerks or Crayak, rather than some entity that we know almost literally nothing about.  It kind of cheapens the potential sacrifice that the Animorphs are theoretically making when it's against something that nobody even knows what it is.

Lol, for a topic that's been discussed so many times, there are sure a lot of people still itching to discuss it, huh?

[Darth Zakryn]

I didn't hate the ending, but I didn't like it either. In my mind, if KA really wanted to leave the impression that another war was about to start, there were TONS of ways she could have done that. Have them narrowly survive and be marooned in space, have them travel back to Earth thinking they had to tell the government about them, there's many ways it could have been done without having the dreaded cliffhanger.

[LisaCharly]

"Ram the Blade Ship" is an epic closing line. It symbolizes so much - defiance, hope, self-sacrifice, boldness, desperation, defeat and success all at once. WAY better than "and all was well".

[wildweathel]

I love it.  It's almost as good as the ending to King's Dark Tower cycle, which is similarly open (not to give too much away...).  I can certainly understand hating it, though.  At the very least, it sucks having to find a new story.  And, if you were planning out how things could have all turned out for the better, yes it's a bummer.

But then, isn't war usually a bummer?

[Chad32]

I didn't like the ending either. Almost no closure, killing off important characters because she knew she wouldn't have to pay any kind of consequences for doing it, and then throwing out strawmen when the fans complained. No we didn't expect a "And they lived happily ever after" ending. We, or at least I, wanted an ending with closure, where the Animorphs got some therapy and eventually became constructive members of society again.

Not this: Well Rachel was the most willing to fight, so obviously we have to kill her off. Tobias was about as willing to, so we can't let him end happily. Marco was one of the least willing, but still didn't despise it, so we'll give him what he wants but say he gets really bored and apparently doesn't just take a vacation. Cassie hated the war the most, so let's let her have a happy ending. All that can't be a coincidence.

since there weren't going to be any more books, KA could do whatever she wanted to with her characters. Not like it would effect anything for her. The series is over.

I hated the ending, and I will always hate the ending.

[TobiasMasonPark]

"Ram the Blade Ship" is an epic closing line. It symbolizes so much - defiance, hope, self-sacrifice, boldness, desperation, defeat and success all at once. WAY better than "and all was well".

     I liked it because it was the same order Elfangor had given after he returned from Earth.