[ SECRET POST #3558 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3558 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Haven't read the books, but weren't they ghostwritten for a while or something? That could explain it.

[(Anonymous)]

some of them were.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the author killed Rachel on purpose to make a point about good people dying in wars... I hadn't thought about it like this before, but maybe she had a kind of pacifist message with these books?

[(Anonymous)]

I was obsessed with Animorphs in elementary school (they were still coming out) but lost interest before the end. Still, when I heard Rachel died, I wasn't... surprised? I thought it was kind of ballsy, to kill a main character, and honestly, Rachel made the most sense. She seems like the one who would've been most likely to go out in some brave last stand.

I'm sad if Tobias had a sad ending though, his whole plot was one long sob story.

[sarillia]

I felt the same way about Rachel. Plus it was a longstanding part of her character arc that they didn't know what she would do with herself once the war was over. I think her death was planned for a while.

[otakugal15]

She was also getting really really unhinged by the end of teh series. Everything that they had been through for the last, what...4 years (i think) affected each o them differently.

Jake just kind of...did what he had to do and just kind of...wandered through everything at the very end. Like he wasn't all there or not really fitting in anymore.

Cassie did what she had to do and after it was over, just moved on as best she could, tried to get back into life as it had been before and go. Marco also kind of did that.

Tobias was a mess. Had been, honestly, even before Rachel's death.

Ax went back to his people (which honestly never made sense to me. because he ended up being very distant with them and thus became vulnerable to what ever got a hold of him there at the end. they were basically his family by the end of the series, so I don't understand why he just...dropped them the way he did).

And Rachel...she ended up going down a darker path compared to the others. She was a rather gung ho "ra ra fight the power" type through out the series, but the war with the Yeerks basically ended sending her over the edge. Had she lived, she may have ended up doing some rather unsavory things because she wouldn't have been able to cope without battle. Or, she would have enlisted in some kind of military to go to where any other fighting was. So, she ended up sacrificing herself to save her and everyone else, both from everything and from whatever possible future she may have ended up having.

That series had some pretty realistic reactions at the end of the series to people who had been fighting a war pretty much all ob their own from the ages of, what 12? It's a wonder only 4 of them ended up being semi-ok, and that's being generous.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really loving this comment. <3 <3 <3

[ketita]

I read the last book many years after reading the others, and I remember my main reaction being "bwuh". The "ending" sucks.

[(Anonymous)]

Not all stories have happy or neat endings.

[(Anonymous)]

Even though I was obsessed with Animorphs when I was kid, for some reason I never got around to reading the last book. I got the ending spoiled a year or two back, and I'm still sad. Rachel was my favorite. ;(

[sarillia]

I like open-ended endings.

At times like these I'm reminded of the ending of A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is another ending lots of people hate, but I loved the point it was making.

[caerbannog]

Gee, I don't even remember the ending. There were so many books and prequels and choose your own adventures and related series, they've all kind of merged into one unshapen thing in my head.

[(Anonymous)]

The author even made a statement about how the point of the ending is that war is hell, good people die, and you can't just beat the bad guys, win and go back to your previous life.
I liked it a lot. But I read the last couple books after I'd already been spoiled on everything that happens and had time to accept it.

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats. That's the point. The point is that it's realistic to what an actual war is. You don't just get to beat the bad guys and remain unscathed. Friends and allies die. Depressing things happen. You get changed.

Now turn that bitterness toward real life and use it to try and help prevent real wars so you don't know an actual Rachel or Tobias or whatever.

[greenvelvetcake]

See, I really enjoyed every single one of those things except for the Ax/Borg/whatever the hell that last chapter was. It was a much more realistic ending than, say, the Harry Potter epilogue where everyone got married and have kids. People die, relationships you start in high school don't last, and those who live have a lot of scars to live with.

[(Anonymous)]

i just really wanted jake and cassie to work it out *ugly sobbing*