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General Discussion / Animorphs
« on: September 06, 2016, 08:57:08 PM »
Yeah, I started reading a book for grade schoolers at 28 years old. What of it? YOU WANNA GO? YOU WANNA FUCKIN GO MATE?!
No but for real I am impressed with how much complexity is in these 100-something page books for children. It's a very easily digestible story that is a good primer for like what MaOCT should be like. Every story of these sad traumatized teens involves some kind of mundane emotional grounding that provides some relatability to a really bizarre setting and reminds us of real stakes while also these children transform into tigers and fight an alien invasion every story.
I'm like 8 books deep into the series (9 if you count Megamorphs but nobody counts the first Megamorphs) and it continues to find fresh ways to change up the stakes in both senses while slowly compounding on canon that exists outside of the basic plot of each story.
No but for real I am impressed with how much complexity is in these 100-something page books for children. It's a very easily digestible story that is a good primer for like what MaOCT should be like. Every story of these sad traumatized teens involves some kind of mundane emotional grounding that provides some relatability to a really bizarre setting and reminds us of real stakes while also these children transform into tigers and fight an alien invasion every story.
I'm like 8 books deep into the series (9 if you count Megamorphs but nobody counts the first Megamorphs) and it continues to find fresh ways to change up the stakes in both senses while slowly compounding on canon that exists outside of the basic plot of each story.
