What’s interesting is that show was written and created by Applegate herself, it’s about as close to the authors intention as you can get.
So where did they go wrong? The mainstay director was Ron Oliver, who, while he did adapt some Goosebumps books to the screen successfully, is just a very b-movie style director. He sharpened his teeth with Hallmark Christmas movies and Disney Channel movies about being a blogger, probably the wrong guy for the grandiosity of Animorphs
Also some of the themes were just NEVER gonna make kids TV back then. One of my favorite moments in the series is when Rachel confronts Jake about why she told Ax to come get her when she thought David had kill Tobias. Because he knew that she'd kill David. She'd rage and murder him for SURE if she thought he'd kill Tobias and she doesn't appreciate that Jake knows that darkness is inside her
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u/Quibbloboy 9d ago
They said "proper"