Time Travel

[yrkd88]

Awesomeness...I'd love to see your movie one of these days, if possible

[Phoenix004]

I totally agree with Yorick. I LOVE time travel as well (anyone read Timeline by Michael Crichton?) and I also agree with that over usage of Ellimist and Crayak. They should have kept that stuff VERY limited IMO. Not that it was awful or anything, but I dunno. Would be more realistic if events happened because of the actual character's themselves instead of being influenced by multi-dimensional omnipotent beings.

Also being the ginormous ancient history geek that I am, I really would have liked to see the animorphs and v3 get blasted back to the times of the roman empire but that's just me^^. And of course the Agincourt battle in 1415 was a pretty cool touch in MM3. That definitely reminded me of the book Timeline

I've not read the book, but I'll definitely look into it as I love time travel! 

Going back to the Roman Empire would've been cool, and would certainly have forced my sister to read the series (she's obsessed with the Roman Empire). There are definitely some other places I'd like them to have gone, but I guess if they went to too many places then there would have been a lot less detail in each place they visited (or we'd have had the biggest Animorphs book of all time!)

[filmstu2005]

I totally agree with Yorick. I LOVE time travel as well (anyone read Timeline by Michael Crichton?) and I also agree with that over usage of Ellimist and Crayak. They should have kept that stuff VERY limited IMO. Not that it was awful or anything, but I dunno. Would be more realistic if events happened because of the actual character's themselves instead of being influenced by multi-dimensional omnipotent beings.

Also being the ginormous ancient history geek that I am, I really would have liked to see the animorphs and v3 get blasted back to the times of the roman empire but that's just me^^. And of course the Agincourt battle in 1415 was a pretty cool touch in MM3. That definitely reminded me of the book Timeline

Well what ARE the odds of the Animorphs, being who they were and being as important as they were, running into each other that night and coincidently meeting Elfangor who gave them powers? That alone is no coincidence. If wasn't for the Ellimist they never would've met Elfangor.  Cassie the anomaly, Marco, son of Visser ones host, Ax and Tobias, relatives of Elfangor? The only connecting factor was Jake, and we all know Rachel wasnt part of the original plan, she just tagged along. The Ellimist did not create the Animorphs. He saw them across time and space and nudged them together to a certain point in their lives. Thats really all he did. Everything before and after that was by THEIR CHOICE. Well, except for the books The Change and The Stranger.

The Animorphs were just regular happenings all on their own that the Ellimist brought together because he saw the possiblities. He saw what they could accomplish as a team. He's not controlling them like puppets, because not even he knows the definite future, as stated in The Stranger

[Yorick Brown]

Well I did want the Ellimist to have 'seen the possibilities' and 'nudge' anyone together. And I think everyone here already knows how I hated Applegate's make Cassie 'sub-temporarily' grounded crap. And did Elfangor, while I loved the Chronicles, HAVE to be anyone's father?

It was annoying. I hated it.

[filmstu2005]

Because it makes for an exciting read and gave the characters a sense of origin, especially Tobias. And Cassie being the anomaly was just as creative because it explains why she was so peculiar.

Sounds like you were reading the wrong book series, bud. Is there anything that you do like?

[morfowt]

Um...I guess he liked the original basic idea of the story (you know kids turning into animals and kicking alien butt?), cuz I don't see how you'd start reading a series if you didn't like the original basic story.

[Cloak]

I don't see how you'd start reading a series if you didn't like the original basic story.

I'm not accusing anyone on this board, but I've known of people (some anti-Potter people, for example) who read books with a razor's edge, deliberately looking for "evil" and "satanic" things, completely using lines from the book out of context, whether deliberately or unintentionally.

[morfowt]

ok...those people are either crazy or paranoid...or both.

[wotw2112]

I hated Applegate's make Cassie 'sub-temporarily' grounded crap.

Actually, I agree.  It was crap.

[Yorick Brown]

I liked the original basic story. Ordinary kids getting extraordinary powers fighting an extraordinary menace. I just hated how everything was predestined and manipulated by an outside force rather than have made decisions on their own.

A sense of origin? What the hell does that even mean?

[AniDragon]

I hated Applegate's make Cassie 'sub-temporarily' grounded crap.

Actually, I agree.  It was crap.

I actually kind of liked that. Mainly because now, if ever I get my books published, I have a basis on how to cross it over with Animorphs in fanfics. XD Since I use alternate realities, and anomolies in time and space, and stuff like that. So... yeah. ^_^.

[Cloak]

I actually kind of liked that. Mainly because now, if ever I get my books published, I have a basis on how to cross it over with Animorphs in fanfics. XD Since I use alternate realities, and anomolies in time and space, and stuff like that. So... yeah. ^_^.

Same thing with my book/s, only different realms/dimensions (which I don't set up immediately).

Sometimes I wonder if you create an entire world (such as K.A. Applegate or J.K. Rowling) if it doesn't become some sort of alternate reality or realm.  Not that it's linked to our own or anything . . . it's something I've casually wondered/

[wotw2112]

I actually kind of liked that. Mainly because now, if ever I get my books published, I have a basis on how to cross it over with Animorphs in fanfics. XD Since I use alternate realities, and anomolies in time and space, and stuff like that. So... yeah. ^_^.

Same thing with my book/s, only different realms/dimensions (which I don't set up immediately).

Sometimes I wonder if you create an entire world (such as K.A. Applegate or J.K. Rowling) if it doesn't become some sort of alternate reality or realm.  Not that it's linked to our own or anything . . . it's something I've casually wondered/

Oddly I've actually wondered the same thing.  Often.  Are we just the fulfillment of some greater (or other) being's story telling?  By writing a story of my own am I actually creating a world that I could never even know about somewhere in my brain? (The universe does seem oddly similar to the makeup of a cell in many ways if you think about it...)  This possibility bring up a variety of moral questions...but would explain why bad things happen to good people (god doesn't know the evil he/she writes is actually meaningful)

But I digress...and have decided that I need to think less...

[Cloak]

  I've always said God is the greatest writer . . .

But I digress...and have decided that I need to think less...

No, don't!  We need philosophers and thinkers in this day and age!

[filmstu2005]

I liked the original basic story. Ordinary kids getting extraordinary powers fighting an extraordinary menace. I just hated how everything was predestined and manipulated by an outside force rather than have made decisions on their own.

A sense of origin? What the hell does that even mean?

Think about it.