I'd appreciate it if you guys didn't start an off topic argument.
I'm assuming that what he meant by a sense of origin was that we got to seem more about the history of the character and how they came to be who they are.
Lol. I would never try and start one. Fighting on the internet is like the Special Olympics. No matter who wins, you're still retarded. (And with that statement I honestly hope I didn't upset anyone, its not my intention. I don't want another 'Tropic Thunder' incident on my hands.)
Thanks Phoenix. I thought it was self-explanatory. Guess not.
Why did it have to be about fate and superbeings and destiny and all this other convoluted matter?
*sighs* And it's because of opinions like this that people tell me I'll never get published because my stories are "too complex".
Fact is, some people like the more complex aspects of the story. We like Cassie being an anomaly, and Tobias being Elfangor's son, and the Ellimist and Crayak playing a sinister game. As is the nature of things, other people disagree, and that's perfectly valid. To each his own, and all that jazz. But just because some people don't like it, doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the book. If you start taking out everything that some readers might not like, you wouldn't have anything left.
Writers need to write what they want, and what they think is interesting. If they start wondering "Well, some people might not like the supernatural aspect", and start flitering their ideas to fit the current market, they stiffle their creativity.
K. A. Applegate wrote what she found interesting. Some readers liked it, some didn't. That's just the way things work.
I completely agree. THANK YOU!!!! Said it better than I could. But what that writer did in the Final episode of the Sopranos was just wrong and a dis to the fans that watched it for 6 years, keeping the show on air. Seriously, a black cut screen with no REAL conclusion? That was pretty cold.
Because otherwise it would have been quite a coincidence that of the 5 "random kids" who happened to walk by, one was the son of Visser One, one was Elfangor's son and another was some kind of space/time anomaly. Not to mention that the Andalite they rescued later happened to be Elfangor's brother.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if KA added in the involvement of the Ellimist in the "coincidental meeting" because some idiotic fans thought it was too coincidental! 
Thats what I thought. As the series got older it did seem to be way too coincidental. The Ellimist was a cool and obvious device that could be used to tighten up those coincidences.
Because otherwise it would have been quite a coincidence that of the 5 "random kids" who happened to walk by, one was the son of Visser One, one was Elfangor's son and another was some kind of space/time anomaly. Not to mention that the Andalite they rescued later happened to be Elfangor's brother
It'd be more believable of you got rid of the Elfangor-Tobias plot thing and Cassie-sup-temporarily grounded crap.
Okay. Maybe not get rid of Tobias being Elfangor's son but Applegate should have cleaned up the timeline and the circumstances much better
Lol. Thank God you weren't the author and creator of Animorphs. Or a ghostwriter.
But I do like that quote you have up there. The one about the darkness? Very poetic. Sounds like something I read in "A Wrinkle in Time," or maybe in "A Wind in the door." Where is it from?
