lusilly:bonyfish:aeromachia:sylverlining:But you can’t judge a book by its cover, dammit!In actualit

lusilly:bonyfish:aeromachia:sylverlining:But you can’t judge a book by its cover, dammit!In actuality, the grave seriousness of Animorphs is what stands out most in my memories. This isn’t 10,000 pages of kids turning into butterflies. It’s a 10,000 page chronicling of war, and the central themes of the series are appropriately aligned with that subject matter. Once you’ve suspended your disbelief and firmly settled yourself into the bizarre sci-fi nature of the material, what you’ve got is five teenagers who struggle with things like dehumanization, the responsibility or leadership, sanity, insanity and morality. It is told with the horror of actual war, where the battle is not only physical, but mental as well. Is it right to kill unarmed enemies? Is it right to ask a team member and friend to carry out a dangerous mission? Is it right to retreat, to continue, to do anything?Horrible things happen with surprising frequency in this series. Characters you’ve grown attached to have mental break-downs, crumble under the pressure, cease to be heroes. In fact, a lot of this series serves to debunk childish notions of battle and war as being something magnificent and heroic. The battles that are fought are not great feats or victories, but rather a series of jumbled, confusing actions that leave regret and sickness in the hearts of those who fought. Each decision, whether in the heat of battle or for the greater good, comes later to haunt the character who made it, and they forever feel the weight of their actions and their own short-comings.via Why Animorphs is possibly the greatest sci-fi story ever told.Let’s remember too, that it’s also about hope, and love, and bravery. There’s just as much good with the bad, and all of it comes together to make it not just a good fiction series, but a powerful, beautiful, heartwrenching, life-affirming story that resonates and rings true, true, TRUE.They were strong.They were brave.They were good.They mattered.I wasn’t allowed to read Animorphs when I was little because my parents thought they were stupid, so I sneaked them home from the school library! I wish I had got to read the whole series. One of the spinoff novels (the Andalite Chronicles? Something like that?) made me CRY FOREVER.Oh man I loved Animorphs so much as a kid.  We still have most of them at home.  I should read them over break.This is so true! Animorphs was intense. And I do remember the seriousness of it, how they were running and hiding and how that one guy got actually stuck as a hawk because he was changed too long. It was a little bit horrifying. I read them obsessively in middle school, haha. -- source link
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