Extras discussion

I don't get it if uglies is about tally and this bookis about aya and it is two different topics wny include it in the uglies series???

yeah i kinda don't get it that much but i guess it's time for me to use Google

Westerfeld said sometimes about the new meaning of the trilogy being four or something, so i think it was more of a fans request then an actual planned book.

I don't think the author intended this to be part of the actual trilogy. I think he wrote it as a follow-up and intended it to stand on its own. It is Aya's story and since it is in the same world, there is some connection to Tally, but it isn't part of the original story in the first three books.

I think he wrote it to show the impact of what Tally did had on the future.

I don't really understand why Scott Weterfield wrote this one and added it into the series when it didn't really have much to do with Tallly.. and i mean, Aliens? really? i guess it was cool to see what impact Tally had on the future and all but it seemed kind of random. eitherway, now Scott set himself up to write a book called "cake"

I think that his fans made this into being part of the trilogy. Everyone still calls it a trilogy anyway. I don't think it was supposed to be part of the trilogy just a follow-up to show the impact. of what Tally did. I liked the book, I liked the other ones better but this was still pretty good.

did tally even show up in the last book??? ive read all the books except the last one

If you read the dedication in the front he definitely says something about knowing what the meaning of a trilogy is. I think it was supposed to be interesting and maybe even to show his audience that he is the author and can make his own decisions. At least, that's what I took from it. I definitely liked it too.

I loved the first three and hated the fourth book. So in my mind, it will always be a trilogy. :)

it's funny - after i read specials, i thought that everything was over and there was a sense of closure with Tally's parting message. i think though that sometimes fans want to see how things continue - what happens after the fact since Specials really took us on a crazy journey where we learned more about 'civilization' and how things were in towns outside of where Tally was from and the Smoke and New Smoke.

so pairing up with Aya who clearly lived in a different type of city than Tally was from, well they faced similar things and had a similar life in a sense, but there was still a need for control which really is what Tally was all about no? Controlling what wasn't hers to control, then helping others to control in a bad way then losing control and then realizing that there's a way to bring control back to others.

I feel like extras did a good job of showing us how Tally wasn't what we thought she was, but that she was still something to be talked about.

Actually, Extras is not part of the Uglies trilogy. It is a kind of epilogue, to show the repurcussions of Tally's heroism.
It takes place in a China-like culture, whereas Tally's trilogy took place in an America-like culture. This is probably to show that Tally had an impact all the way across the world.
I think Westerfeld also wanted to show that Earth has hope, because the ending of Specials made it sound like everything was doomed, what with the whole expanding-into-the-wilderness ordeal. Extras showed that there is a solution- to expand into Space.
Plus, Extras introduced a new conflict: since there are hundreds of thousands of people per city, where do all the supplies come from. Instead of money, you buy stuff with popularity. Now, in the Uglies trilogy, Tally didn't have to worry about that. She was popular, and her city was new enough to not have to worry about economy. Extra's portrayed the point of view of an unpopular person, a nobody, an extra. It showed the struggles of this modern, "perfect" city.