animorphs had the most shipper un-friendly ending of any young adult series in recent memory
Tell me about it. The war ends and Peter is still legitimately married to two women! This is never addressed! Who cares about PTSD or war crimes trials, does he choose Eva or Nora?
I loved the part after they get exposed where Marco was just like "Bad news Dad, your second wife is probably being mind controlled by an evil alien, but hey good news, mom's not actually dead! I need go save the world and stuff so you cats just hang out with these giant tree eating monsters. K thx bye"
While racing light mechs, your Urbanmech comes in second place, but only because it ran out of ammo.
Strange Matter had some really cool cover art for its time, and I loved that fact that all the stories took place in the same town. It made it feel like each book was part of a larger narrative, rather than just a one-off like Goosebumps.
I was really bummed when it started to lose its soul, though. I guess the books weren't selling very well and the writers switched up their style to try and keep the series alive.
Both the stories and the covers went from creepy horror like
to being more comic-book action/adventure like
I was so pissed.
I know its not Animorphs related, but this is the first chance I've had in like 17 years to mention how much that shit got to me.
That's like... that's like if George R.R. Martin suddenly figured that ASOIAF wasn't sexy enough and decided to make The Winds of Winter a romantic comedy set in outer space.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
I went from Animorphs to Star Trek expanded universe novels to Tom Clancy's Op Centre (which I'm aware was ghost-written)
I was into Tom Clancy's NET FORCE which I believe was also ghostwritten
I also read a bunch of the Net Force books that focused on the kids, but those never pretended that they weren't written by a rotating stable of YA authors
I remember those actually being decent pseudo-cyberpunk adventures
One of the Op Centre pages that still sticks with me was a narration about how the sun is treated differently around the world (in terms of climate and whatnot). It was a neat little metaphor.
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You, the Reader
remember when they trapped one of them in rat form and abandoned them on an island
I think one of my favorite books was when they got stuck in the time rip in the amazon. And everybody just starts dying and you're like "Oh shit" because surely they wouldn't actually kill anybody, but then you remember that this is fucking Animorphs, if it can go south, it will, and it won't be pretty. And it ends with Jake dying and he comes to right before the mission that first caused all that and is like "How about we get ice cream instead?"
The Ellimest chronicles had some serious fucked up shit. Their world was lost because when they developed the ability to transmit information into space they should their super realistic games of the species cause the extinction of millions of forms of life for amusement. He was violated physically to keep him alive, by an unaging ancient horror so it could continue to violate him mentally because it was bored and lonely. Just, what the fuck.
I was visiting my parents' house today and went up into the attic to find some of my old books.
I couldn't get to the boxes with all the Animorph books, but I did find the first seven Everworld books. I only read the first 2-3 when I was young, so I may give them another shot.
I found my Strange Matter book (Tune into Terror) as well, but also found a similar book called Programmed for Terror and now I'm not sure if the details I was remembering were from that book or the Strange Matter book.
For a while there I was basically reading every children's horror book I could get a hold of so I probably have several others along the same lines stashed somewhere.
As someone with only vaugely positive memories of the Animorphs books this thread is amazing.
Just constant oh yeah I kind of remember that with a big does of what the fucking hell.
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JimothyNot in front of the foxhe's with the owlRegistered Userregular
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Today on "Messed Up Stuff From Animorphs:" Remember that time they they discovered Atlantis or something? I think it was #36
And there was an underwater kingdom of blue fish people that had long ago been irradiated and mutated and separated from the rest of the world
But they had to breed with normal humans or their offspring were prone to defects, so they would mate with people they rescued from missing planes and boats, but there hadn't been enough recently and they were dying out
And I'm pretty sure by the end of the book, everyone, even Cassie, agreed that after the war was over they would come back and blow the place up because it was so thoroughly awful?
And the Yeerks had grafted gills onto a Hork-bajir who was dying under Toby and the free Hork-bajir's care because the experiments didn't work as planned
I don't think I followed it for very long after the point where the setting changed to the post-apocalyptic future and they were fighting evil future mutants that took over.
I feel like Crayak/the Drode were involved in the Atlantis thing, somehow. At least I remember Drode bugging them while they were in a submarine so I figure the two have gotta be related.
I feel like Crayak/the Drode were involved in the Atlantis thing, somehow. At least I remember Drode bugging them while they were in a submarine so I figure the two have gotta be related.
think that was when someone located the pemalite ship they hid in the ocean and the animorphs had to turn into giant squids to get to it
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I feel like Crayak/the Drode were involved in the Atlantis thing, somehow. At least I remember Drode bugging them while they were in a submarine so I figure the two have gotta be related.
You're thinking of when they first meet the Drode, they morph into sperm whales and go underwater to the Pemalite ship the Chee had arrived in
And the Pemalites were such a peaceful, trusting race that the password for their ship's computer is just 6 (maybe 7?)
And the Animorphs are all "the Yeerks found us! They're gonna steal all this advanced tech!"
Someone (Cassie?): "But they don't know the password!"
Marco: "The password is a single digit!"
edit: Geebs is right, it was squids. Rachel turns into a squid on the cover. Why do I remember them morphing sperm whales in that book?
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Damn, maybe that's not it, I can't remember.
I loved the part after they get exposed where Marco was just like "Bad news Dad, your second wife is probably being mind controlled by an evil alien, but hey good news, mom's not actually dead! I need go save the world and stuff so you cats just hang out with these giant tree eating monsters. K thx bye"
I was really bummed when it started to lose its soul, though. I guess the books weren't selling very well and the writers switched up their style to try and keep the series alive.
Both the stories and the covers went from creepy horror like
to being more comic-book action/adventure like
I was so pissed.
I know its not Animorphs related, but this is the first chance I've had in like 17 years to mention how much that shit got to me.
That's like... that's like if George R.R. Martin suddenly figured that ASOIAF wasn't sexy enough and decided to make The Winds of Winter a romantic comedy set in outer space.
One of the Op Centre pages that still sticks with me was a narration about how the sun is treated differently around the world (in terms of climate and whatnot). It was a neat little metaphor.
fucked up + makes u think
ah yes. Poor David. Not that he didn't work very very hard to deserve that.
Still, that was a dark three books.
Sabriel and Shade's Children.
I ... don't know if I want to return to those ones to see how awful they actually are
Animorphs, srs bsns.
I think one of my favorite books was when they got stuck in the time rip in the amazon. And everybody just starts dying and you're like "Oh shit" because surely they wouldn't actually kill anybody, but then you remember that this is fucking Animorphs, if it can go south, it will, and it won't be pretty. And it ends with Jake dying and he comes to right before the mission that first caused all that and is like "How about we get ice cream instead?"
The Ellimest chronicles had some serious fucked up shit. Their world was lost because when they developed the ability to transmit information into space they should their super realistic games of the species cause the extinction of millions of forms of life for amusement. He was violated physically to keep him alive, by an unaging ancient horror so it could continue to violate him mentally because it was bored and lonely. Just, what the fuck.
The Abhorsen Trilogy is amazing and everyone should read it, especially if you like female protagonists in fantasy settings.
I couldn't get to the boxes with all the Animorph books, but I did find the first seven Everworld books. I only read the first 2-3 when I was young, so I may give them another shot.
I found my Strange Matter book (Tune into Terror) as well, but also found a similar book called Programmed for Terror and now I'm not sure if the details I was remembering were from that book or the Strange Matter book.
For a while there I was basically reading every children's horror book I could get a hold of so I probably have several others along the same lines stashed somewhere.
i have a dim memory of a big red eye on top of, like, some stairs?
I remember thinking it was as though K.A. Applegate suddenly got bored with the series and decided to just wrap it up as fast as she could.
I started reading Remnants, but it just didn't appeal to me and I quit around book 3.
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the eye i get but what were the stairs about
I remember putting up with it because it was an Animorphs PC game, but I vividly remember our being terrible
Also Ax wasn't in it and you couldn't play as Tobias because he was some weird game mechanic instead
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I remember the Animorphs gameboy game.
God that was terrible. Took me far too long to figure out how to do anything with that game and even then, I never got very far into the game.
This is completely amazing and I love all the little details, like the Yeerk/Andalite/Pemalite ships and I've always loved the Drode
But what is above Crayak's monitor
looks like a Howler head
Bingo
too small to see the magma skin, but the blue eyes should have registered with me
Just constant oh yeah I kind of remember that with a big does of what the fucking hell.
And there was an underwater kingdom of blue fish people that had long ago been irradiated and mutated and separated from the rest of the world
But they had to breed with normal humans or their offspring were prone to defects, so they would mate with people they rescued from missing planes and boats, but there hadn't been enough recently and they were dying out
And I'm pretty sure by the end of the book, everyone, even Cassie, agreed that after the war was over they would come back and blow the place up because it was so thoroughly awful?
And the Yeerks had grafted gills onto a Hork-bajir who was dying under Toby and the free Hork-bajir's care because the experiments didn't work as planned
I loved this series, way back when.
I don't think I followed it for very long after the point where the setting changed to the post-apocalyptic future and they were fighting evil future mutants that took over.
think that was when someone located the pemalite ship they hid in the ocean and the animorphs had to turn into giant squids to get to it
You're thinking of when they first meet the Drode, they morph into sperm whales and go underwater to the Pemalite ship the Chee had arrived in
And the Pemalites were such a peaceful, trusting race that the password for their ship's computer is just 6 (maybe 7?)
And the Animorphs are all "the Yeerks found us! They're gonna steal all this advanced tech!"
Someone (Cassie?): "But they don't know the password!"
Marco: "The password is a single digit!"
edit: Geebs is right, it was squids. Rachel turns into a squid on the cover. Why do I remember them morphing sperm whales in that book?