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# ? Jan 31, 2024 05:03 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 04:42 |
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Kinda with Yago on the creepy baby being trouble.
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 05:45 |
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Yago sucks but so does the murderchilde. Lock them both in the shuttle, imo.
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 05:52 |
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"Mo’Steel posted:“Five-hundred years, twelve days, and some spare change, Duck,” For some reason that line has stayed with me for twenty years You can see some of the same archetypes emerge as in Animorphs: Jobs/Jake is The Guy. Very important to have A Guy in your book, publishers won’t buy it without one. Mo/Marco is funny, but smarter than he seems. (They’re funny in different ways, I think) Violet/Cassie has specialized knowledge and an annoying personal code that made me hate them when I was twelve. I can see an argument for some of the others, but the cast is bigger here (albeit shrinking) As a kid i was freaked out by the asteroid scene, double freaked out by the idea of putting a tube down your throat into your stomach (lungs?), and so scared I (ironically) couldn’t sleep by that last paragraph of the first book about Billy. I am also on team anti-murderbaby, although I only have a vague memory of what happens with that.
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 08:39 |
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von Metternich posted:double freaked out by the idea of putting a tube down your throat into your stomach (lungs?) You know, I did a bit of fanart for the old animorphs thread, but the same desire has not yet sprung up for this series
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 10:36 |
You don't want to draw the eyes spilling out of murder baby's skull?
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 14:02 |
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Yeah the baby makes me feel very viscerally uncomfortable and I am honestly kind of hoping they die soon so that I don’t have to think about them anymore, sorry empty-eyed baby
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 16:18 |
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von Metternich posted:For some reason that line has stayed with me for twenty years Billy is kind of the Tobias of the group
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 17:38 |
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Billy is kind of the Tobias of the group Stayed in catatonic morph for 500 years, that's WAY over the limit!
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 22:20 |
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everything about that baby situation makes me feel so gross
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 22:50 |
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Just dropped in on this thread and had to double check that this series was actually targeting a 'young adult' audience after reading the intro to the baby. The body horror aspects so far are really, really hosed up. Looking forward to seeing where this goes, but dear lord, I'm so grossed out by the baby so far.
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 23:48 |
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Ah, so that's where that smiley comes from.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 00:00 |
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 01:10 |
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Oh good, I’ve been waiting for the hoverboard aliens to show up.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 02:10 |
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Soonmot posted:another consistent through line of all these books: cool weird aliens So were they on another ship or something? Five more, but no dead and the rest of the pods empty?
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 14:21 |
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In my mind they were all camping a way away from the ship, and these two have woken up and reported that the ship is uhh not how they left it
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 14:34 |
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Strategic Tea posted:In my mind they were all camping a way away from the ship, and these two have woken up and reported that the ship is uhh not how they left it I believe this is correct, yeah. Maybe all the mold and the hibernation failure people got better?? And went… somewhere cool and fun?
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 15:54 |
Yeah, they all moved down towards the river after the encounter with the aliens, since it had water for them.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 16:57 |
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 01:13 |
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excuse me ms applegate i would like you to stop publishing my nightmare journal and calling it the second book in a children's series
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 02:40 |
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Big fan of book 2 so far. This poo poo is wild.
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 02:54 |
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WrightOfWay posted:Big fan of book 2 so far. This poo poo is wild. I read ahead a bit and just...buckle up. These books are crazy.
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 03:17 |
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Folks, following my exclusive interview with Ms Applegate, I can reveal that Remnants was written by opening wikipedia's list of phobias and writing a scene for each one. How do you kids feel about holes where nature didn't intend for holes to be?
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 03:24 |
R Scott Bakker no!
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 17:30 |
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I'd say we're on about a 3-4 out of 10 on the weirdness scale for these books
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 22:44 |
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Jim the Nickel posted:I'd say we're on about a 3-4 out of 10 on the weirdness scale for these books
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 23:22 |
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Jim the Nickel posted:I'd say we're on about a 3-4 out of 10 on the weirdness scale for these books
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 23:22 |
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bleak end to these two chapters. I appreciate that this is playing out how we all expected it to do.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 03:11 |
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Violet rules Yago is Count Olaf in disguise
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 10:11 |
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Tomorrow we have the last 2 chapters of this book
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 23:25 |
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So a ship under attack from other aliens? That's the best I got for what's going on.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 23:47 |
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And that does it for book 2! What do we think so far, this is a crazy mystery? Puzzle box? I have no idea where we're headed. (except to the bridge)
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 01:29 |
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I’m so so confused. Everworld had a bunch of mysteries and questions, but all within a framework that was relatively understandable. I didn’t grow up in Chicago in the early 2000s or whenever, but I can understand approximately what it was like and the forces at play. Everworld doesn’t exist, but I was familiar with the building blocks it was constructed with and could imagine, you know, what happens if the Vikings run into the Aztecs? Hell, i’m pretty sure there’s a show on TLC or the History channel about exactly that question, you know? I have very little framework to understand what’s happening in Remnants, or to try and figure out what it means and where it’s going. I have no context to try and understand what’s going on with Billy, except that 500 years with no external stimulation is gonna drive somebody batty. I have no idea how to reason about the baby, or the worms, or the paintings brought to life. It’s more challenging to read these chapters just because it can be harder for me to tie events together into a narrative with causes and effects, so my brain ends up skimming over things. That’s not to say it’s bad - I’m just struggling with it a bit and i might go back and reread these books again when we’re further in and I can put them in a larger context.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 17:17 |
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Coca Koala posted:I’m so so confused. The paintings one I can wrap my head around. Alien zookeepers found the drifting ship with pods, looked at whatever media they could find onboard a slap-dash last minute ark that didn't really have the idea of media storage included from the start and said "Well OK I guess that's their homeworld. Make that." The worms, psychic 500 year old coma patient, and eyeless baby born in cryostasis that transferred its umbilical cord to a bullet hole are all very "The gently caress?" inducing stuff that comes out of left field with no real tie-in to what's going on.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 17:28 |
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Plot's not this series' strong suit, it's more of a horror image delivery system, at least for the first few books. Like Mo says, they're ants trying to figure out a picnic.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 18:16 |
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I am enjoying this, but I think the constantly shifting character POV (compared to previous series' one narrator per book), along with the real sense of anyone being able to die, has me less attached to the characters than I was in even Everworld at this point.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 19:17 |
The unreality and confusing nature of things is really working for me as like lovecraft-lite. Things are strange and unknowable and horrors are everywhere. I WOULD like more time with the characters instead of POV changes every 1.5 page chapter, but I also feel that most of our characters have strong enough voices that I am attached. I love Mo' Steel, and seeing his almost nihilisitc outlook on life and grief earlier was a great flavor to the carefree daredevil we've seen. 2Face with her manipulation of other's perception of her is also a favorite, and seeing her cling to safety instead of stand up for herself is an interesting direction. Even Miss Blake and Jobs are intriguing for me. I'm already enjoying this more than Everworld and the only thing that puts it above Animorphs for me, is that this uses a little more of an adult dialogue instead of the kid friendly animorphs prose.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 19:25 |
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And here's the rear end in a top hat group. Good to see Yago completely missing the point of the tower of babel, and the corporate ghoul being useless. I'm actually looking forward to her eventual betrayal by Yago
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# ? Feb 7, 2024 00:47 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 04:42 |
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Aw, man Nothing good comes from being addressed by your species
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