Animorphs

God of the Yeerks? I don't recall that at all. As I remember it, the One is some new alien entity that the Blade Ship had the misfortune of running into and some time later it absorbed Ax too.

edited 7th Mar '16 12:44:32 PM by TobiasDrake

At least that's the impression I got from it. He was leading the Yeerks, who were worshiping him, and the Lieutenant acts more like a high priest than a commander.

edited 7th Mar '16 12:47:21 PM by TrixiePixie

I don't have the book on me so I can't check for myself (I'm at work), but I just popped over to the wiki and it does mention that, sort of. Basically, we're both right. The Blade Ship ran into the One while fleeing Andalite pursuit and it offered them power in exchange for worshipping it.

It had nothing to do with the Yeerk Empire or the war on Earth. It was just some new thing that the Blade Ship crew agreed to serve to avoid certain annihilation at the hands of the Andalites.

I think there was also something in the book about the Andalites knowing of its existence and wanting to avoid the political consequences of antagonizing it, which was why Jake and his crew had to launch a covert mission into its territory in a stolen spacecraft.

edited 7th Mar '16 12:46:52 PM by TobiasDrake

Ah, that makes sense I guess. Even still, the aesop becomes 'war just comes right the heck outta nowhere for no reason' which undermines the message just as much. At least in my opinion.

E: Well, nevermind, I can see how you could compare this to finding new technology to fight more effectively. But still.

edited 7th Mar '16 12:49:36 PM by TrixiePixie

The Andalites wanted to avoid antagonizing the Kelbrid Empire. They had never heard of the One.

Earth: always thrown into the middle of the alien empires' political screwups.

I always got the impression that The One was the entity that Crayak got booted out of his galaxy by.

I think Applegate Jossed that theory.

Yeah, her word from a Q/A are: "The One is a purely future creation/event, not entwined in the backstory."

So, a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere

Pretty much. And that was completely the intention as well.

I'd like to ask some advice. So, if/when I make my Animorphs anime, how many seasons should I do, how long should each season be, and which books would make for good season finales? Obviously the David arc and the final books would be good, but I can't think of many other books that would be suitable season finales, and just two seasons seems too short.

I'd say the one where Marco's dad found out about everything would be a pretty good season finale.

And just have the last ten books be the final season? Sounds good, though if I'm going with ~10 episode seasons, David would end season 2, and The Revelation would approximately end season 4, leaving the season finale events of 1 and 3 still in question.

Season 1 could end with the introduction of Erek. Season 3...maybe The Reunion. That ends with Visser One finding out Marco's identity.

Those could work.

Would the Megamorphs books be a normal part of the series or OV As? Some of those may be good places to end a season if the former.

I think the Megamporphs books could be removed honestly. The Andalite Chronicles, Hork-Bajir Chronicles, and Visser would make more sense to include.

Agreed, the Megamorhps were actually pretty disposable and not super well written at the end of the day.

I'm planning to do the Megamorphs as 1 and a half hour movies made-for-tv, while the Chronicles will be proper, 2 hour+ movies for theaters. Obviously I would tweak any of the lower-quality bits.

What!? The Megamorphs were awesome! Although I think the first is the only one that would fit seamlessly in a season and would make a good finale.

The problem with choosing a book for a finale is that the best season finales find ways to incorporate all the characters but each Animorphs book has a character focus. The David trilogy pops to mind first not only because it's an epic storyline, but because it features multiple POVs and all the characters play a pretty vital role.

edited 11th Sep '16 4:26:29 PM by ElementX

Delete the filler books. Filler books include: 32, 36, 39, 41, 48, the crocodile book, the alaska book, the australia book, and probably a lot more that I forgot

edited 11th Sep '16 4:47:50 PM by SmartGirl333

At least the Crocodile book was enjoyable filler.

And then there's 35 which would be filler if it didn't serve as the lead-in to Visser

I plan to keep my trimming of the series to a minimum, only removing the absolute worst of the worst (39: The Hidden will be one), though I do plan to make drastic alterations to the books with decent concepts that just really suck or include something really dumb.

I'm actually planning to add books/episodes to the series, some replacing the unsalvageable ones, some just filling in plotholes and hanging plot threads, as a small example, I want to extend the David trilogy into a sextilogy, making his Face–Heel Turn more believable, and seeing David's development from Cassie, Ax, and Tobias' point of view. You'll forgive me if I don't spill all the things I want to add or change about the series.