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Tree Bucket posted:It's great that, re-reading Animorphs as an adult, Visser 3 is immediately identifiable as every crappy manager ever. And to think he’s ultimately just middle management in the Yeerk Empire.
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Visser Three is the worst boss. Anyway, sorry I'm late tonight. The Messenger-Chapter 24 quote:We morphed once more into our dolphin bodies and swam down the river to the place where we had entered the water. We beached ourselves in shallow water and returned to our human bodies. It's Ax as a human! quote:He was human and yet, somehow, strange. So, that mission went well. Maybe the first that really did. They saved Ax, and now the team has a new friend and ally, even if it's one that never paid much attention in school.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 02:55 |
Manages to be less obnoxious than the Furlites of Aroriel, that's for sure.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 03:25 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Manages to be less obnoxious than the Furlites of Aroriel, that's for sure. Kind of damning with faint praise, aren't you?
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 03:39 |
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ax is a good boi
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 04:28 |
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I feel like the ability to just...merge morphs? Or whatever Ax just did is some kind of new uncharted body horror poo poo if they wanted it to be.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 05:26 |
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"Regional Manager, Patrick Visser III" "John Visser, Human Resources Consultant" "Karen Visser: Lead Departmental Supervisor of Core Competencialization and Actualized Keystoning"
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 05:30 |
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Ravenfood posted:I feel like the ability to just...merge morphs? Or whatever Ax just did is some kind of new uncharted body horror poo poo if they wanted it to be. It will never, ever be mentioned again. It's basically a crutch to put off the question of morphing a sentient creature until later in the series (barring sentient-ish animals, of course).
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 05:43 |
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Krazyface posted:It will never, ever be mentioned again. It's basically a crutch to put off the question of morphing a sentient creature until later in the series (barring sentient-ish animals, of course). I mean I can see the reasoning why it's possible but also entirely useless outside this one single purpose of disguising as a non-specific person.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 05:52 |
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Kchama posted:I mean I can see the reasoning why it's possible but also entirely useless outside this one single purpose of disguising as a non-specific person.
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Krazyface posted:It will never, ever be mentioned again. It's basically a crutch to put off the question of morphing a sentient creature until later in the series (barring sentient-ish animals, of course). That's not true. Not a main series book, but Elfangor uses it to create his permanent human disguise at the end of The Andalite Chronicles.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 07:12 |
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We've already seen morphing is a skill you can be better or worse at, it would not be unreasonable to asume mixing morphs is something the kids just aren't good enough to do even if they were willing.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 10:51 |
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Fritzler posted:Light spoilers for a future book and question about Visser 3’s biology: also spoiler for a future book and biology: a yeerk's size doesn't have an impact on its host's morph, as long as it's in the host body when it morphs it's treated the same as the body's organic matter. in #6 jake is infested and the yeerk morphs him falcon no problem. same with cassie and aftran in #19. the problem with the sharks (in #15) was that the yeerks were implanting brain chips in them to make them more infestable, and the brain chips weren't impacted by morphing. if you have a chip in your brain and you morph something small, it's gonna burst your head open.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 11:58 |
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quote:He reared up and stood erect.
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Turpitude II posted:also spoiler for a future book and biology: a yeerk's size doesn't have an impact on its host's morph, as long as it's in the host body when it morphs it's treated the same as the body's organic matter. So theoretically, a yeerk could infest a host with morphing capability, then get stuck in morph resulting in a creature with the combined minds of the yeerk, the host, and the animal body. The yeerk mind apparently maintains control in this situation judging by book 6, even though Its physical form is gone (along with the need for Kandrona rays). That’s an even more terrifying prospect than garden-variety yeerk in the brain - no physical separation between host and parasite, no respite for yeerk pool time, just permanent mental imprisonment with maybe a polar bear brain or something for company.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 14:52 |
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The Message-Chapter 25quote:It was a couple of days later. After we had recovered. After I had made sure that Ax was safe in the far fields of our farm, away from curious eyes. And that's book four. That's Cassie's story. And, Jesus whale aside, maybe the message of this chapter is, while we don't know what the future will bring, take some time right now to enjoy the moments we have. So, assuming this place is still here tomorrow, we can start book five, The Predator. It is, if you can guess, a Marco book,
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Daikloktos posted:Sorry you don't want to spend a season roaming the jungle, taking all challengers and constructing The Ultimate Ape ... This is a use I had not considered.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 00:56 |
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Epicurius posted:So, assuming this place is still here tomorrow, Well that's fuckin' ominous.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 04:17 |
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CidGregor posted:Well that's fuckin' ominous. Probably more ominous than I meant it. But, as you know, things are unsettled right now, and the future of the forum is in doubt. But, as long as the forums is still here, we'll have more animorphs.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 04:40 |
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Lots of goons seem to be moving to bread and roses, might try continuing there if this forum gets nuked.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 07:37 |
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If you move to B+R, I have an Animorph Let's Read set up already, but I'd love having a second one if you want to keep going.
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SardonicTyrant posted:If you move to B+R, I have an Animorph Let's Read set up already, but I'd love having a second one if you want to keep going. I appreciate the invitation. I'm not sure that B&R is the place for me, but thanks for offering. And if you want any help or need any Animorphs resources, please get in touch with me. Anyway, lets forget about board stuff and get back to our series about kids trying to stop evil aliens who trick people into becoming their partners, and then control and dominate them without regards to their rights or well being.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 23:43 |
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Book 5: The Predator-Chapter 1quote:My name is Marco. So this is the standard "I can't tell you who I am or where I live. Except, it's Marco. quote:So, see, I'd like to tell you my name, and address, and phone number, too, because if I could do that, it would mean I no longer had any enemies. It would mean my life was normal again. See, that's Marco. After telling you why he shouldn't get involved, he gets involved. quote:It had been a while since I had done this particular morph, but as I concentrated, I could feel it coming back. I slipped into the opening of the alley and hid in the shadow of a very smelly Dumpster. Yep. In the TV show, Marco was played by Boris Cabrera, one of the few American actors in the cast. He left acting in 2004 and is now a personal fitness trainer.
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Epicurius posted:Yep.
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SardonicTyrant posted:The real Big Jim has logged on. I figure more power to him. When you look at what happens to a lot of teenage actors and their career tracks, being a successful personal trainer like him, or a head of marketing, like Nascimento...well, there are worse places child actors end up.
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# ? Jun 26, 2020 00:41 |
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I like to think that if a gorilla ever confronts me in an alley my reaction would not be "get it".
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# ? Jun 26, 2020 08:51 |
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quote:Monkey! I thought. Excuse me? Monkey? I'll show you monkey. Was Terry Pratchett writing when these came out? A very Librarian reaction there.
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Gorillas eat fruit.
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Avalerion posted:Was Terry Pratchett writing when these came out? A very Librarian reaction there. Yep. This book came out in 1996. The Librarian became an Orangutan 10 years earlier, in 1986.
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# ? Jun 26, 2020 15:35 |
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I can't help but picture these punks as the thieves who bought Magilla Gorilla from Mr. Peebles pet shop to assist in robbing a bank. I guess where normal people see a terrifying force of nature these guys saw "free Great Ape."
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Grammarchist posted:I can't help but picture these punks as the thieves who bought Magilla Gorilla from Mr. Peebles pet shop to assist in robbing a bank. I guess where normal people see a terrifying force of nature these guys saw "free Great Ape." Or, "great! Free ape"
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The Predator-Chapter 2quote:Yeah , so then I do the gorilla thing, right? I save the old man. I'm the hero. I am Spiderman. I am Wolverine. I am Batman - " Scoldy Jake there. "Oh, don't casually use your powers. quote:Now, as you're reading this, you're probably thinking, Urn, Marco? Time out. You've left out a few things. Like, how can you turn into a gorilla? So, in the books, there's always the "narrator describes the other Animorphs thing, and there's Marco's. Note that he's the first one to identify that Jake and Cassie are dating. Also, I think those last two lines are significant. Marco uses sarcasm to try to deal with his fears, quote:Anyway, on that night we were cutting through this big, abandoned construction site. It was supposed to be a shopping center, but they got it half built and then stopped. Marco's description of he plot of the series. quote:"I just don't think we should be morphing out on the street in order to get involved in everyday crimes," Jake lectured me. "Remember what happened at the used car lot with Rachel and Tobias - and you asked them if they were insane!" It's fair, though. Ax's problem is that he was trained to become a warrior, and has been indoctrinated in those values, but he's never fought himself, and he is, I think, feeling survivor's guilt. So he overcompenates for his inexperience and guilt by being gung ho. quote:It was Tobias who broke the silence. <If you get a Yeerk ship, can you get back to the Andalite home world?> I don't know about the rest of you, but I like Marco's narration. I think in a lot of ways, he's the most expressive of the narrators and the most honest about his feelings. if he's upset, if he's afraid, he'll tell you in a way that I don't know that the other narrations did.
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# ? Jun 26, 2020 23:37 |
Yeah, he's wearing the mask to everyone else, but he is really honest with himself. And he would be absolutely in love with Rachel completely, if he wasn't so obviously terrified of her.
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Epicurius posted:Cassie is the one who is least like me. If I'm comedy, she's poetry. She's a natural peacemaker. She's the one who knows when you're feeling bad and will find something nice to say that makes you feel better. And it's not like she's manipulating. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Epicurius posted:I don't know about the rest of you, but I like Marco's narration. I think in a lot of ways, he's the most expressive of the narrators and the most honest about his feelings. if he's upset, if he's afraid, he'll tell you in a way that I don't know that the other narrations did. As I believe I've said before, I think Marco's flat-out the best-written of the Animorphs. His superficial qualities don't take away from his deep ones, and in his narration, he's direct and shameless whether he's being superficial or deep, because he's being Marco and he doesn't care what other people think about that. He's written as a totally believable "smart thirteen-year-old," a totally believable "ruthless guerrilla tactician," and a totally believable "hurt and traumatized boy," and that is not easy to do. Comrade Blyatlov posted:And he would be absolutely in love with Rachel completely, if he wasn't so obviously terrified of her. He probably is in love with Rachel, honestly; besides constantly talking about how hot she is, he quietly hints that, in his assessment, she's the only one on his level intelligence-wise (which, IMO, is why Marco seems to get extra angry when Rachel fucks up: she's the one of them who he really does think should know better). But he's smart enough to know that that would never go anywhere, partly, yes, because he's terrified of her. Besides, it's clear that his crush on Jake is stronger, even if it's never more than subtext. Maybe Ax, too, by the end.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:And he would be absolutely in love with Rachel completely, if he wasn't so obviously terrified of her. NGL, the Marco/Rachel thing is legit my favorite subplot in Megamorphs 4.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 03:51 |
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To whoever mentioned pokemorphs so many pages back, I just wanna tell you that no you are not alone. I made a comic of that in 3rd grade with my friends at the time. I also wanted to say that I realized where KA Applegate got the name Dak Hamee from when I was stocking shelves at the store I worked at when I was like 22.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 05:39 |
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This is my favorite narrator so far yea. Has the most personality and the snark is fun.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 07:14 |
Is this the book with the ants?
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 18:37 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Is this the book with the ants? This is extremely the book with the ants
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:This is extremely the book with the ants
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