Brain function stopped at 3am, it is now 5:13am...

[gargoylekitty]

http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/
Holy fuck, Animorphs. It was the first series that I really, actively collected in books. I remember the first one I ever read was the one with Jake turning into a fly on the cover, it was a yellow cover. There I was minding my own damn bussiness and next thing I know I see this title and my elementary school self goes 'oh, that's awesome' and before I knew what hit me I was hooked. If I wanted to talk fandom I'd say that Gargoyles was probably my first ever and Animorphs was my second. I was into other things too, of course, but those were the ones I really got into.

So yeah, I was hooked. This was when we lived in CT and before the bulk of the series was out yet so I pretty much actively collected each book as it came out for quite sometime(I think they came out every other month or something like that). I remember being on a family vacation in Nebraska(grandfather lived there) and dragging my mother around the tiny town in search of the newest book. I remember being the only kid in my class in CT who could name all the characters winning me a small prize in library trivia. I remember this kid when I moved to VA who I was competive with in who would get the new book first, I always thought he kind of looked like Jake. I remember slightly slashing Rachel/Cassie and Marco/Jake before I really knew wtf slash was. I remember being excited about the TV series and then being sad that it lacked the epicness it could have been.

Alas the author got a bit lazy toward the end and I stopped when the reading got really unbearable(right after they met the girl andalite), you could tell Applegate didn't seem to care about the series anymore. It's okay though as I hear the ending sucked and Rachel died, so fuck that...

Comments

[silverdragon729.livejournal.com]

To me it's about how she seems lazy. It's not like those books were really long or involved or anything. She just wanted to deal with her other two series (both of which I've written, and don't have great things to say). If you make a shitton of money off of something and don't want to finish it, then finish it poorly sooner. She owed the fans, and she fucked us all over. As someone who wants to be an author, that just pisses me off.

I read the last book, by the way. Rachel was my favorite character, and the fact that she killed her off needlessly, and then left an ambiguous ending anyway is just obnoxious.

[gargoylekitty.livejournal.com]

I certainly won't argue that it's laziness and screwing over the fans. I guess I just lost faith/interest in it long enough ago that I can look at it fondly in the past tense and be pissed over the end though not much care beyond that.

Though Rachel was definitely my favorite as well since she was badass and used to do gymnastics like I was at the time I started reading them so hearing about what happened with her... RAGE. >:(