The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They run a YouTube channel titled "Animorphs Reviews". Animorphs is like their entire life. Can you imagine being so obsessed with something that you very clearly don't really understand?

Yes, because I'm familiar with internet discourse surrounding Star Wars.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

They run a YouTube channel titled "Animorphs Reviews". Animorphs is like their entire life. Can you imagine being so obsessed with something that you very clearly don't really understand?

Ugh. Yeah, this baffles me. He completely missed the point of Animorphs. The author even wrote a statement in the end of the last book basically saying "this is the moral of the story: war sucks". So many people seem to be impossible of critical thinking or seriously analyzing the meaning of media they consume, even when that meaning isn't hidden at all.

Oh yeah I forgot the part where the main character, a 16-year-old boy, is also a war criminal who is miserable forever. Don't forget the part where he recruits an entire army of sick and disabled children from a children's hospital and then uses them as a distraction and they all die horribly. So, double-war-criminal. And the part where literally nobody gets a happy ending and then there's another war because war doesn't beget peace it just begets more war.

Then there's the three-parter in the middle of the series where they accidentally recruit another kid and he kind of likes killing a little too much (which is actually fine, because Rachel) but then he gets scared and tries to betray them so they permanently trap him in the body of a rat and abandon him on an off-shore island that's close enough that they can still hear him psychically screaming for the rest of his short miserable life and then that storyline ends.

I sure do enjoy these children's books

Yep. And one of the child characters tries to commit suicide early in the series because they get permanently trapped in the form of a hawk and have to deal with the fact that they will be a bird for the rest of their life. The series has a ton of war crimes, acts of genocide, existential dread, and overall messed up content that most children's series don't even dare to discuss. I'm honestly surprised that it ended up getting published.

(The series was great, though. I have fond memories of it. I still remember how much I loved the Ellimist Chronicles.)

 

[Gradine]

Of course there's also that time they defeat a race of sociopathic murderous hive-mind aliens by teaching them how to make out

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Of course there's also that time they defeat a race of sociopathic murderous hive-mind aliens by teaching them how to make out

To be fair, making out is awesome.

 

[Cadence]

Once again, it's not complicated to figure out why your conversations with that poster always go that way. Your pizza place doesn't serve the good stuff. What good stuff? Any of it. Seriously, read it in a that light and it will all make sense.

 

[trappedslider]

I read like five of the Animorphs books before i ran out of copies available to me at the time, I did try reading them again but it honestly felt "too simple" compared to what I've been reading.

But Grant's Gone series is dark and good reading also Stephen king recommends it lol.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I read like five of the Animorphs books before i ran out of copies available to me at the time, I did try reading them again but it honestly felt "too simple" compared to what I've been reading.

But Grant's Gone series is dark and good reading also Stephen king recommends it lol.

Is that the "all adults disappear and wildlife starts mutating" series? If so, I read that too. It was also extremely messed up.

 

[Hussar]

Heh. Anyone who thinks that YA fiction is for children hasn’t been paying attention for a while.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Heh. Anyone who thinks that YA fiction is for children hasn’t been paying attention for a while.

I agree that YA is often written to either be inclusive of "all ages" or cater to a certain demographic of adults as well as teenagers, but Animorphs was definitely written for children. The writing style, many of the plot beats, jokes in the books, covers, tie-in TV show, and more show that much. And the series started before the Harry Potter boom, and Harry Potter's insane popularity is generally considered the "start" of the modern YA genre, so it definitely doesn't have a lot of the traits that post-Harry Potter YA/MA series have.

 

[trappedslider]

Is that the "all adults disappear and wildlife starts mutating" series? If so, I read that too. It was also extremely messed up.

Lord of the flies with powers, but the covers make me ,even the author is like WTF lol

I agree that YA is often written to either be inclusive of "all ages" or cater to a certain demographic of adults as well as teenagers, but Animorphs was definitely written for children. The writing style, many of the plot beats, jokes in the books, covers, tie-in TV show, and more show that much. And the series started before the Harry Potter boom, and Harry Potter's insane popularity is generally considered the "start" of the modern YA genre, so it definitely doesn't have a lot of the traits that post-Harry Potter YA/MA series have.

yeah, like I've mentioned I was reading The Stand when the first book came out and I thought it was a cool idea but I lost interest as soon as I ran out of copies to get ahold of. And now, I just can't bring myself to read them due to the style.

OTOH, I found this trilogy The Switchers Trilogy
No aliens and they can even do mythical animals and it's not so bleak.