Series re-read #54 The Beginning
This of course is the final book in the series. The Animorphs make their final stand, force the Yeerks into surrender, and we learn of their lives after the war ends.One of the team pays with her life and the others become world famous. Then we're left with a cliffhanger ending. I don't know if anyone actually liked this book but a lot of fans didn't like it.
I'll skip over the question about Jake dumping the pool ship because I asked it already. Although if anyone wants to talk, feel free. Does anyone have any remarks about the Chee reaction to the incident? Was it right to leave them alone and not reveal them to everyone?
Was Rachel the right choice to die? Or should it have been someone else? I had an idea about Jake dying while saving Tom, but I don't know *shrug*
How about the way things went in the aftermath? Was it written well enough? Obviously you don't come out of a war unscathed but was this the right path for Applegate to take?
If you could rewrite the final arc, how would you have the series wind down? Or even if you could just rewite this book what would you have happen? Or if you could pick up from this ending and write more?
What are your feelings on Visser Three's attempt to attack Jake's credibility during the trial?
Would the Yeerks have tried to come back again? I somehow don't think they'd just nicely stay away from Earth.
The Yeerks with morphing power were forced to become nothlits. Do we know the fate of the morph capable human ex-controllers?
I can imagine the boom in the psychiatry and psychology buisness with all the ex-controllers and maybe yeerks too who'd need therapy lol.
Not to mention the Hork-Bajir. I wonder if people would be okay with them or start poaching them like someone did Arbron. Any Andalites out of morph would need to watch too. You would certainly have some anti-alien freaks who'd want them all gone.
I suspect the Andalites thought we were too dangerous to share military technology with. I wonder what the eventual implications of the zspace technology would be.
The cliffhanger,right or wrong?
A couple post series things:
What did you like least and most about the series?
Favorite and least fave books? (did we do that already?)
Anything that didn't happen that you wish would have?
I guess next week we go back to when it all began, to the night when five kids' lives changed forever. We start over with The Invasion.
I'll skip over the question about Jake dumping the pool ship because I asked it already. Although if anyone wants to talk, feel free. Does anyone have any remarks about the Chee reaction to the incident? Was it right to leave them alone and not reveal them to everyone?
Was Rachel the right choice to die? Or should it have been someone else? I had an idea about Jake dying while saving Tom, but I don't know *shrug*
How about the way things went in the aftermath? Was it written well enough? Obviously you don't come out of a war unscathed but was this the right path for Applegate to take?
If you could rewrite the final arc, how would you have the series wind down? Or even if you could just rewite this book what would you have happen? Or if you could pick up from this ending and write more?
What are your feelings on Visser Three's attempt to attack Jake's credibility during the trial?
Would the Yeerks have tried to come back again? I somehow don't think they'd just nicely stay away from Earth.
The Yeerks with morphing power were forced to become nothlits. Do we know the fate of the morph capable human ex-controllers?
I can imagine the boom in the psychiatry and psychology buisness with all the ex-controllers and maybe yeerks too who'd need therapy lol.
Not to mention the Hork-Bajir. I wonder if people would be okay with them or start poaching them like someone did Arbron. Any Andalites out of morph would need to watch too. You would certainly have some anti-alien freaks who'd want them all gone.
I suspect the Andalites thought we were too dangerous to share military technology with. I wonder what the eventual implications of the zspace technology would be.
The cliffhanger,right or wrong?
A couple post series things:
What did you like least and most about the series?
Favorite and least fave books? (did we do that already?)
Anything that didn't happen that you wish would have?
I guess next week we go back to when it all began, to the night when five kids' lives changed forever. We start over with The Invasion.