Purple Embers
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Post by Purple Embers on May 21, 2011 21:47:44 GMT -8
Has anyone else read these books?
I used to love them, well still do. But the ending is very... depressing.
-Starts crying-
Um, anyway, here is a place to talk about The Animorphs. Well if I'm not the only book nerd that has read them. ^_^
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Post by vividlyvisceral on May 22, 2011 20:07:59 GMT -8
I used to watch the television show, but I never really understood it. (I found it scary, so I used to hide behind the couch for most of it.) Could you explain to me a proper summary of the show? Wikipedia and TV Tropes has not helped me. D:
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Post by Purple Embers on May 22, 2011 22:50:15 GMT -8
Well the show is adapted from a book series but the main gist of it is; There are five normal teenage kids (around 15) who are at the mall one day and then at night come back through this abandoned construction site, there they meet an alien who tells them that their is an alien species invading the planet. The alien gives them the power to morph into other animals. And it goes through the series with the 5 kids fighting this guerilla war against this all powerful alien species. But the thing I like about it is that it shows how normal kids turn into soldiers pretty much, fighting off this never ending wave of aliens, and how they change throughout the books is reflected on the issues they have with suddenly having to kill living beings. -Cough- Um, yeah, I used to be very obsessed. Anyway, I really reccomend the books more then the tv series because the tv series is kinda... well not at all like the books. But it might be hard finding the books, if you are really interested and really want to read them I would reccomend trying a 2nd hand book shop or ebay.  |
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Post by vividlyvisceral on May 24, 2011 5:16:18 GMT -8
Okay, well tell me this then- there was this guy who was a crow or an eagle or some sort of bird and couldn't change back. What was his deal?
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Post by Purple Embers on May 24, 2011 14:29:30 GMT -8
Oh, Tobias... -Starts fangirling- Well you know how they got the power to morph? Well a restriction comes with it. If you stay in morph as another animal for more then 3 hours, you remain that animal for the rest of your life. Tobias is the loner in the group, he never had friends and his mum and dad both died when he was young, he is shuttled between his Uncle and Aunty on opposite sides of the country. When the 5 kids were fighting the yeerks he had to stay in his morph (the red tailed hawk) for more then 3 hours, thus he had to stay as that animal. Some speculate that he didn't change back to his human form on purpose so he could get out of his terrible home life, but I don't really know which one it is. Yeah, I'm an obsessor I know. |
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Post by vividlyvisceral on May 24, 2011 17:12:56 GMT -8
So he never changed back? D: Wow, I always thought he would eventually. Everyone kept going on about how sad it was he was stuck as that hawk.
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Post by Purple Embers on May 24, 2011 22:06:14 GMT -8
Well he kind of does. A few months after being permanently changed to the hawk this big alien creature (the Ellemist) which decides everything in the world came to him and told him he could have his human form back. But then he didn't actully give his human form back, only made it so he could morph into it.
If Tobias had really wanted to he could have just changed back to his human morph and stayed like that, but he wanted to stay in the war so he lived as a hawk.
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Post by Tokoloshe Monster on Sept 4, 2011 9:42:24 GMT -8
I used to be so obsessed with this series... Good times. I can barely remember anything that happened in it anymore, though. D: (The ending is also supremely fuzzy, since I didn't get to read all the books towards the end.)
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