There was once a girl, distressed. Her bright green eyes shown brightly as if she had recently been crying. She had finished the last Animorphs book #54: The Beginning. After many tears resulting from the end of a series she had loved so deeply, she turned to her notebook for help, she sat down and wrote this:
"Some people disagree with the ending of the Animorphs series. I dislike the cliffhanger, but I can live with it, what made me so angry, really, is not that there was an unhappy ending, but that so many characters, characters I grew to LOVE, ended up to be characters that I didn't even know. And I guess you could say that's what war does to you. But seriously. I don't understand how bonds could break that rapidly. How some of the characters could be so destroyed, like they were weak, though they were all so strong.
In some books, after a character *dies*, the rest of the Animorphs continue fighting, it's on their conscience, but they don't just fall into a whole. Like in MM#3, Rachel dies there, and Tobias , though upset, continues to go on.
I knew some of those characters like the back of my hand. I could predict what they would do before they did it. And somehow, In the last couple of books, they weren't themselves anymore. Like I said, the ways of war. But they'd BEEN in this war, and the disappointment that not a single Animorphs really stood up after the war and continued to be themselves (with the possible exception of Marco/Ax) makes me wonder.
These kids had to be tough. They would handle loss. They had before. Tobias grew up with no family. NO family. Are you really going to tell me after Rachel's death, he would just disappear, after he had finally found a place to be? That's not the Tobias I knew. Yes, he loved her. He loved her greatly. But he had family now, he had Loren, he had the other Animorphs, he had Ax. All through this war. And KA wrote that he just abandoned them.
If KA wanted to make the story more realistic, shouldn't she have had more characters die along the way? Two years with no casualties? That's not war. But I didn't want to read about war. That's not, to me, what the Animorphs are about.
The Animorphs, to me, is the story in the back of everybody's mind. Some possible way to be some other place, making a difference, saving the world. Turning into animals! When I was little, I wanted so badly to be at that place. I wanted to be with Tobias, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, Ax. I think that everybody here has thought about it every once in awhile.
I don't care what anybody says. The Animorphs are alive in my mind. All of them. They always will be. I carry the characters with me. I hope you agree. Maybe the cliffhanger wasn't such a bad thing. With a closed ending, the story couldn't stay so vibrant. With a closed ending, KA could have killed them all off. Oh, how I hope for the safety of those aboard the "Rachel", ready to ram the blade ship. There are those people who assume the series ended saying they all died. Have you read any of the Animorphs books? Hopefully. How much have the Animorphs been through? How much have they come out of? I hope every
person will agree with me in saying, The Animorphs will ALWAYS stay alive in our hearts. "
She sat her pencil down on the desk, almost satisfied, and with that, walked over to her bookshelf. Pulled out her tattered and torn copy of Animorphs #1: The Invasion, and laid down on her bed. While others argued over the outcome of the series, she laid there, reliving the entire experience all over again.
Ok, that WAS just going to be a reply, i swear, but it turned into a rant. Maybe it doesn't make sense, maybe it does. Maybe you don't want to hear it, maybe it's what you need to hear, either way, thanks