Series Re-Read: The Andalite Chronicles

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

Ok now we're up to TAC, instead of last week like i originally thought lol.

I don't have time to transcribe the back cover blurb, but it's the story of what came before the Animorphs. The story of Elfangor's Hirac Delest, his final statement.  It also tells us about Alloran's background to a point, and a little more about Visser Three.

What were the things people were discussing about the timeline in this one in relation to other books?

Are we still debating whether we're dealing with the same Chapman here?

I'm anxious to hear everyone's thoughts on this one in general.

Next week is The Unknown

Comments

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

hahaha yeah I agree with your quibbles. This is a totally different Chapman that we get fron #2, which I think some have even speculated like a DIFFERENT Chapman, like literally not the same person. I think it's just inconsistent characterization, but to each his own.

And yeah, the romance was sweet, but a tad unbelievable. I guess I like to think that him moving to Earth with Loren was an act of desperation, and they spent a little longer getting to know each other. So falling in love in a week may be unrealistic, but meeting, marrying, and conceiving in three years? ehh, doable, even if you bf is an alien.

And honestly, though I realize the hirac delest was just a framing device, I was honestly DISAPPOINTED in #23 that Tobias found out through some boring will and testament rather than some fantastic battle over the rights to play Elfangor's found hirac delest or something. And that could have given us a scene of Ax and Rachel and Tobias and hell, EVERYONE finding out TOGETHER. Which would have been heartbreaking and angst-worthy and everything.

[sporadicfungian.livejournal.com]

there's this one alternate-final-two-books fic that i absolutely adore and choose to take as my canon even if i logically know it's too happy an ending for the series, and IIRC it features at one point tobias somehow finding the hirac delest and it's really sweet.

also i just realized my comment above was supposed to reply to you and didn't, OOPS.

also i read 23 before TAC cuz i got into the series i think in the late teens and then spent some time catching up, so i never thought of it that way, but now that you mention it that scene would have pretty much killed me.

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

aww good :') I honestly think one of the biggest problems of the series was that Applegate and Grant were TOO creative and made such good throwaway details that they missed a lot, and I mean a LOT, of narrative opportunities.

Kind of like LOST. But that show is just one big clusterfuck at this point.

[jadedkoi.livejournal.com]

link to fic?

[sporadicfungian.livejournal.com]

http://members.shaw.ca/jcmlott/

it's a re-write of the last two books, and you have to download them as PDFs in installments of like 3 chapters, but i would honestly say it's worth it. it's the ending i totally wanted animorphs to have, lol.

[karma-fucked.livejournal.com]

we don't even get a scene where the animorphs find out via tobias telling them. that's fucking important, no?

after i read 23, i used the animorphs transformer things (yeah, I bought them all) and acted out that scene pretending they were barbies.