But there were many things I personally disliked that I couldn't help changing if I had the chance.
Personal Changes:
-Seattle, Washington (I just wanted a relatively familiar location that was hardly used in TV and that was close to the Pacific ocean)
-Tom as rebel leader (The idea just sounded cool to me)
-The parents are captured (It just looked really stupid to me)
-Tobias returns as morph-capable human (I don't know where to file this; while I did dislike Applegate screwing us over like that, I also a morphging hawk seemed really dumb)
-Killing Marco's mom (Dunno. Just felt right somehow)
-100% Hispanic Marco (Just representing my people...)
-The Yeerks not getting the morphing cube (I never liked this and didn't feel that Cassie letting Tom go free was too out of character even for her)
-The ending (Once again, I don't know where to file this; I hated how Tom was never freed after Jake tried SO hard for SO long, I NEVER liked cliffhanger endings, Ax should have taken Visser Three down and you just don't kill one of your best characters after all this time.)
Which justifies my point. Dude, this is your own personal movie, str8 up. How're you gonna change ALLL that which made the final arc of Animorphs, ANIMORPHS???? Yeerks not getting the Morphing cube? Do you not know the laws of drama? Did it ever occur to you that that part ties in to Cassies intuition, her knowing that it would stir the Yeerk army and change the tides of the war? Its b/c of the morphing cube that everything turned out the way it did. Like i said, there are ways to make adaptations work while still pleasing the fans and entertaining the newcomers.
But oh yea, I forgot. You don't like complexity in your stories. Lol....Sorry, but its a really bad idea.
The only things I liked up there were:
Legitimate Changes:
-Downplaying the role of the Ellimist and getting rid of his origins (while we wondered about what the Ellimist was initially, we later stopped caring what his origins are so there's no need to adapt that convoluted chronicle of his. Plus, I felt many of the time paradoxes that Applegate left with him was just too confusing)
-Giving the Andalite homeworld the name Andal (I don't see how this should bother anyone. The planet will hardly be mentioned, at least by name it'd be silly being referred to as 'the Andalite homeworld' atll the time)
-Morphing clothes and shoes (It makes sense that only skintight would be used but the whole 'naked Animorph' joke would get old soon)
- And maybe, just
maybe, allowing Tobias to move into his human form permanently. I dont know. It really depends. Dont know how it would fit. Or perhaps the Ellimist only gives Tobias back the morphing power, but he can only use it when he morphs to human, still to be trapped as a bird.