Comments | alanahikarichan: The ghost-written Animorphs books SUCK.

alanahikarichan

The ghost-written Animorphs books SUCK.

Dec 28, 2008 12:02

Okay, not all of them, but #36 does, badly. Everyone's OOC, and the ghostwriter doesn't seem to have gotten the message that "technobabble should probably lean towards the hard side of scifi, not the soft-like-an-overripe-banana" and "WAR IS BAD is a good message, but not the way YOU'RE writing it" and "jesus christ, evil Atlantian mutants who're ( Read more... )

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seiberwing December 29 2008, 05:12:52 UTC

Animorphs plots/races just got weirder and weirder, I swear...

You could go with generic flying though montage?

alanahikarichan December 30 2008, 16:35:16 UTC

Yeah, they did. XD;; Some were fun-- I love the Helmacrons and the Iskoort and their associated books-- but some were just... buhwhaaaat.

After talking about it with Drake, I think I'm gonna start with Tobias hanging out with Ax and move them to a meeting~ and go heavy on internal dialogue and character interaction.

seiberwing December 30 2008, 17:18:12 UTC

That'd work too, show a bit of how he gets on with other people.

eco_mono December 30 2008, 02:49:07 UTC

Wait, some of the Animorphs books were ghostwritten?

alanahikarichan December 30 2008, 16:20:53 UTC

Yeah, about the last third of the series while Applegate worked on... Everworld, I think? The EVEN DARKER series with a giant mythology mashup? I'm pretty sure that one came before Remenants. There were a couple still written by her, the last two and the Chronicles and Megamorphs, but overall they were mostly ghostwritten for a year or two.

It shows, sometimes. X3;; Some of them feel like bad fanfiction. (Some also feel like really good fanfiction, though!)