That’s what I was thinking, yeah. I mean, having an Animorphs anime is already a “never gonna happen” kinda thing, so might as well go full unrealistic with it.
I did find it hilarious that Applegate thought the cow one was so over the top preachy about not eating meat that she literally rewrote the last chapter to have them all eating hamburgers and loving it.
The mid-late 90's were a good time and probably the closest we are ever going to get to the kumbaya, every race is equal, MLK dream.
People still cared. And still pandered and put all their tokens together to make a beautiful diverse rainbow so they could feel progressive. However, the emphasis was always about learning coexistence, and seeing people for individuals. If a person tried to not be racist, and was nice, that was enough.
Yeah, I don’t mind it being dark and gritty, and I would have been fine with a. Not-so-happy ending too, but I think it ended way too bleak.
Just my opinion here but I think given the setting and the narrative of ‘war is bad’ we got the best ending possible. Now Ax was absolutely robbed and mishandled in the finale I’ll give you that but for humans fighting a war against intergalactic beings capable of technology so advanced it might as well be magic things turned out pretty good.
Maybe, but at the very least, specify if they all died or not. Downer ending, happy ending, something inbetween, at least give an actual end, not a cliffhanger cutoff.
Yeah, sometimes life just sucks. And I'm not against all art that ends with that message. But it doesn't seem like KA was trying to make some kind of artistic statement, rather that she got caught in the adolescent edgelord mindset of enjoying the emotional catharsis that comes from writing muh pains drama. Writing a gritty universe is not a sign of maturity, anyone who has ever browsed Dark!AU or Hurt/Comfort fanfic knows this.
I never looked into Everworld, was it just as dark as Animorphs if not more so?
The megamorph books were always fun to me. There was the one where they accidentally got sent back to the time of the dinosaurs and Tobias is literally responsible for killing the dinosaurs. Or the one where Jake makes a deal with the alien devil to where they never became the Animorphs. Almost everyone dies, but the actually win the war in like a month and a half.
It’s pointed out in a later book that Earth has an enormous amount of animal species compared to other planets. Like the Andalite’s home planet only has like three types of birds total. So he probably has way less adaptablity than he thinks he does.
I think Visser 3’s biggest downfall is he vastly overestimates his own abilities. If he’d actually listen to his crew instead of killing anyone who dared to disagree with him he could easily move up the ranks to become Visser 1 or higher. The problem is he’s not really a leader, he’s just a glorified bully with power.
Old news, but you know what? Close enough.
