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MY NAME IS JAKE
Sep. 13th, 2009 07:45 amI'm STILL on an Animorphs kick. This time in list form.
1) Like, practically the entire TV series is on YouTube. I tried watching some of the first episode for the lulz. I got like halfway into the second part before I just couldn't take the low budget special effects. THEY WERE HURTING MY SOUL. That's really what did the show in (I think, even more than the random changing of shit and how like Marco was suddenly ghetto? ANYONE? ANYONE? which was saying something) -- while some things I feel need to be done small and indie (LIKE SPRING AWAKENING), there are some things that to work you sort of HAVE to throw a ton of money at. Animorphs, I think, would fall into that category.
HERE'S THE TV SHOW INTRO FOR NOSTALGIA'S SAKE
2) The models on the covers are bugging me a little bit. idk they just are. Such as how they change and never seem to age even though the series takes place over 3 years.
3) Since the TV show made me poke around the first book (I have no intention to reread the whole series, I only go poke around in random books when they intrigue me -- I reread #6 because it intrigued me and I couldn't remember what happened -- but I am officially rereading the whole final arc now. WE'LL SEE IF I DON'T GET BORED WITH IT FIRST.) I lol at the fact that, as Wikipedia and TV Tropes states, there are several like, important aspects of how the morphing and all works that are established in the first book, but then in all 53 other books + companion books are changed but otherwise consistent. Also, the first book seems so bland after reading the last books, imo. Like their problems are suddenly so trivial. This re-reading also felt like the second time I'd ever seen Spring Awakening -- one of those things where knowing how it ends changes how you look at the story leading up to that ending.
4) Like I was saying to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
msmoocow and alienating everyone in chat tonight... they're so weird yet fascinating to read as an adult. Like I said, the writing style is pretty simplistic, and the characters, since they are young, are a little innocent and immature sometimes. But the characters are so good and occasionally in fits of comic relief (they have to stay sane, at least in the beginning) totally hilarious, and the overall concept behind the series is so good -- and so shockingly dark and adult. I know I already said that and I knew it but it still makes me shake my head. Like, the Animorphs kill people. People. They kill them. In a YA book. Not just sometimes. In like every book. Which, yeah, doesn't exactly sound like OH NOW I WANT TO READ THESE BOOKS, but I mean... the Animorphs unrealistically get out of a lot of shit, just like every movie and TV show and book ever, but like msmoocow mentioned in chat, what makes them so great still reading them as an adult and what a lot of kids could appreciate about them is they aren't condescending and they realize they're representing a kind of war, and they let in enough of that horror to allow them to explore some deeper questions. The Animorphs, especially in the epic final arc, end up in such serious moral dilemmas that we as adults still sort of have to sit back and go what the hell would I do if I had to make that decision? And the sides I took when I first read the books are not always the same sides I'm taking now, which is fascinating. Plus the Animorphs themselves aren't like COOL WE CAN CHANGE INTO ANIMALS for very long before the angst sets in -- like Jake says: "The power made us responsible, see... it was the power that turned fear into obligation. ... Power enough to win? No. Power enough to fight? Ah, yes. Just enough, little Jake, here is just enough power to imprison you in a cage of duty, to make you fight." WHO DOESN'T LOVE ANGST AROUND THESE PARTS?
5) PEOPLE STILL HAVEN'T HELPED ME CAST AN ANIMORPHS MUSICAL. Idk whether they should stick exactly to the descriptions of the characters or not, since that's very limiting when you also take into consideration that they'd have to look young.
6) Also, Animorphs is different as an adult in other ways too.
oh ho ho
1) Like, practically the entire TV series is on YouTube. I tried watching some of the first episode for the lulz. I got like halfway into the second part before I just couldn't take the low budget special effects. THEY WERE HURTING MY SOUL. That's really what did the show in (I think, even more than the random changing of shit and how like Marco was suddenly ghetto? ANYONE? ANYONE? which was saying something) -- while some things I feel need to be done small and indie (LIKE SPRING AWAKENING), there are some things that to work you sort of HAVE to throw a ton of money at. Animorphs, I think, would fall into that category.
HERE'S THE TV SHOW INTRO FOR NOSTALGIA'S SAKE
2) The models on the covers are bugging me a little bit. idk they just are. Such as how they change and never seem to age even though the series takes place over 3 years.
3) Since the TV show made me poke around the first book (I have no intention to reread the whole series, I only go poke around in random books when they intrigue me -- I reread #6 because it intrigued me and I couldn't remember what happened -- but I am officially rereading the whole final arc now. WE'LL SEE IF I DON'T GET BORED WITH IT FIRST.) I lol at the fact that, as Wikipedia and TV Tropes states, there are several like, important aspects of how the morphing and all works that are established in the first book, but then in all 53 other books + companion books are changed but otherwise consistent. Also, the first book seems so bland after reading the last books, imo. Like their problems are suddenly so trivial. This re-reading also felt like the second time I'd ever seen Spring Awakening -- one of those things where knowing how it ends changes how you look at the story leading up to that ending.
4) Like I was saying to
msmoocow and alienating everyone in chat tonight... they're so weird yet fascinating to read as an adult. Like I said, the writing style is pretty simplistic, and the characters, since they are young, are a little innocent and immature sometimes. But the characters are so good and occasionally in fits of comic relief (they have to stay sane, at least in the beginning) totally hilarious, and the overall concept behind the series is so good -- and so shockingly dark and adult. I know I already said that and I knew it but it still makes me shake my head. Like, the Animorphs kill people. People. They kill them. In a YA book. Not just sometimes. In like every book. Which, yeah, doesn't exactly sound like OH NOW I WANT TO READ THESE BOOKS, but I mean... the Animorphs unrealistically get out of a lot of shit, just like every movie and TV show and book ever, but like msmoocow mentioned in chat, what makes them so great still reading them as an adult and what a lot of kids could appreciate about them is they aren't condescending and they realize they're representing a kind of war, and they let in enough of that horror to allow them to explore some deeper questions. The Animorphs, especially in the epic final arc, end up in such serious moral dilemmas that we as adults still sort of have to sit back and go what the hell would I do if I had to make that decision? And the sides I took when I first read the books are not always the same sides I'm taking now, which is fascinating. Plus the Animorphs themselves aren't like COOL WE CAN CHANGE INTO ANIMALS for very long before the angst sets in -- like Jake says: "The power made us responsible, see... it was the power that turned fear into obligation. ... Power enough to win? No. Power enough to fight? Ah, yes. Just enough, little Jake, here is just enough power to imprison you in a cage of duty, to make you fight." WHO DOESN'T LOVE ANGST AROUND THESE PARTS?5) PEOPLE STILL HAVEN'T HELPED ME CAST AN ANIMORPHS MUSICAL. Idk whether they should stick exactly to the descriptions of the characters or not, since that's very limiting when you also take into consideration that they'd have to look young.
6) Also, Animorphs is different as an adult in other ways too.
About three minutes after he'd started the change, there was a completely normal Tobias, sitting naked on the end of my bed.
oh ho ho
