Animorphs

Speaking of David, if you guys haven't read the Daemorphing fanfiction series, do yourselves a favor and READ THE DAEMORPHING SERIES.

Basic premise is that the Animorphs have daemons, animal representations of their souls that have been with them their entire lives. It's a His Dark Materials thing, and I always felt the series wasted the idea. It starts off pretty piecemeal and concept based in Making a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul but then it gets IDEAS about what the series did wrong in Seeing in Color and then The Cowardice of Lions is just... it's amazing and I cry every time. Literally. That good.

edited 13th Apr '15 1:58:39 PM by odafangirl

They are also on FanFiction.Net. To change the subject, does anyone else totally ship Marco and Ax?

What, just because they both don't have anyone?

Yeah... i guess it is Pair the Spares... BUT THEY'RE SO CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE

Well, they did slow dance together at the end of the TV show, so I can kinda see that pairing. XD

I shipped Marco and Rachel for a while. Then she hooked up with Tobias. Then she died.

It's difficult to sink a ship harder than that.

You can have one member of the ship shoot the other three times in the chest and leave them for dead. And then next time he shows up, he says he'd be crazy to not have gotten the hint.

No, I think "Entered into a loving and committed relationship with someone else, remained in that relationship for the better part of 2-3 years, then died abruptly," still trumps.

edited 14th Apr '15 10:19:50 AM by TobiasDrake

I think the only thing more damning would be if one half of the ship said "I love you" and the other spontaneously combusted.

Maybe Netflix or another streaming service will see the potential success in an Animorphs series.

Probably not Netflix. They prefer to handle lower-budget shows, and we already saw how horrible a low-budget Animorphs was (though in fairness, budget was far from the only problem with that show). I do agree that it would probably work better as a tv series, though. Compress some things, expand others, but the long-running nature would work better to illustrate the war than just a few movies. We've also got a lot of good sci-fi/fantasy shows right now, so it's a good one to throw another one into the mix.

While usually shapeshifting is something that requires a high budget by default, I actually think Animorphs could be done on a low budget - one of the problems with the old show wasn't just that it was low budget, but that it was also low effort on top of it all so everything just looked cheap and crappy.

If done well, a new low budget Animorphs show doesn't have to have the laundry list of problems the old show had.

I think animorphs movies would either be narmalicious, traumatizing, or severely underwhelming as animation is usually considered a kid's medium and live action WOULD NOT WORK. Learn from the mistake that the show was.

I also skipped the rest of that discussion, so don't judge me there.

edited 14th Apr '15 6:08:37 PM by SmartGirl333

Well if they did it right it'd be traumatizing, that's for sure.

I think the most important thing would be to keep the Period Piece aspect of it. Animorphs really only works in the 90s, when mobile phones only made calls and every square inch of space wasn't monitored. No way in hell they'd escape the Yeerks long term these days.

I don't know. I think that if somebody wanted to try and put in the effort you could get an interesting story out of a version set in the modern day.

The show was created on the budget of a 30-minute television series.

On a children's network.

In 1998.

Modern live-action film is a whole different animal.

Good point.

...wait,they made the TV show in 1998? The book series wasn't finished until 2001

Yep, it began while the series was still ongoing.

Weird. Actually, it's probably a good thing the later books weren't included. Not only because of the heavy Cerebus Syndrome, but because the alien special effects would be horribly stupid.

I can't imagine how they would've done stuff like the Howlers or even the Crayak. The Animorphs wiki says Ellimist apparently showed up on the show, though. He was all transparent and stuff.

Apparently they never showed a taxxon. It makes sense, they would be 1. Traumatising to kids and 2. Hard to SFX.

Animation could serve Animorphs well.

It could, but I think that Animorphs did well in a textual medium and a lot of its storytelling techniques wouldn't fare as well as any type of movie, such as first-person and thought-speak.

God I remember that old series. It wasn't that good but it had a somewhat campy nature that I liked. The alien costumes were awful though.

edited 15th Apr '15 8:00:31 PM by Kostya

Apparently there were episodes with no on-screen alien, and they only had one Andalite suit. Can't blame them, one time I made an Andalite Halloween costume but I ended up taking off the whole back half except for the tail. It was just too heavy, even with wheels.

To quote the opinionated book guides,

edited 15th Apr '15 8:22:10 PM by SmartGirl333