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The Predator-Chapter 3quote:Okay , ready?" I asked. Remember Radio Shack? That was the strangest store. Although if you had to find the parts to make an alien communication device anywhere, it would be Radio Shack quote:Jake was looking pretty stony-faced, which is how he looks when he's not sure if something will work. I just want to stop for a minute, and look at what Marco is doing here. He reassures Jake that the plan they have is the best plan they could come up with, and he's stopping Rachel from going with them in case something does go wrong, so that she and Cassie can save them or at least survive and continue the fight. quote:Tobias flew almost silently into the barn through the open hayloft. <It's still all clear. And the bus is right on schedule, over on Margolis Avenue.> I mean, it must, if you think about it, be pretty exciting for Ax, being able to vocalize. You do sort of wonder how he knows English, though. quote:"Yes," Ax agreed. "Yah. Ess." This is going to go great!
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Yeah, he's wearing the mask to everyone else, but he is really honest with himself. It almost felt like he's less scared of her and more terrified for her.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 23:56 |
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Forgot about radio shack, going to the mall can only mean they are about to hit Ax's favorite store for the first time I assume? Also do all mall's have one person bathrooms? He should go in there and morph half way through definitely.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 00:48 |
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Yea the books seem really insistent on wanting to make the 2 hour time limit a serious issue when with a little more planning it really shouldn't be.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 07:55 |
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Y'know, I don't actually remember bathrooms at my old mall. Like, I presume they existed for staff somewhere, but I, or anyone in my family, never had to use them.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 09:07 |
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McTimmy posted:Y'know, I don't actually remember bathrooms at my old mall. Like, I presume they existed for staff somewhere, but I, or anyone in my family, never had to use them. Dunno what kind of mall you went to but yes malls definitely have public bathrooms, and they are only surpassed by dive bar and freeway rest stop bathrooms on the grossness scale.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 13:53 |
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Y'all gotta step up your public bathroom game...the Gucci malls have the nicest bathrooms. Like you can tell they had designer type people working on them cause the stalls look like waves or seashells or something like that and there's plants everywhere and the lighting is moody. When I'm out I keep bathrooms in mind cause I drink a lot of tea and you better believe I go to the rich people malls. I advise you to do the same Anyway animorphs taught me valuable vocabulary like "impale", "disembowel", "eviscerate", and "genocide" and I hope this thread reaches another generation of impressionable youth.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 14:41 |
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bones 4 beginners posted:Y'all gotta step up your public bathroom game...the Gucci malls have the nicest bathrooms. Like you can tell they had designer type people working on them cause the stalls look like waves or seashells or something like that and there's plants everywhere and the lighting is moody. When I'm out I keep bathrooms in mind cause I drink a lot of tea and you better believe I go to the rich people malls. I advise you to do the same It's less an issue of visual appeal and more an issue of "People are gross and they aren't cleaned often enough." But yeah I wouldn't mind if they were designed better in the first place. Anyway back to Animorphs content, are we gonna cover the Megamorphs books along the way or stick to the numbered books? I know they are kind of standalone but they do still sorta fit within the chronology. IIRC the first Megamorphs took place between books 7 and 8-ish (or at least was published around then), #2 was somewhere in the upper teens, and #3 happened in the late 20s? And #4 was pretty late but still before things kick into the endgame? Similar question for the other side books, e.g. Visser and the 'chronicles' series. They're pretty much all prequel stories, but at the same time they're framed within the context of events in the main chronology (especially Visser), and it would make sense to insert them along the way as they become relevant. So what's the approach? Release Order? Or is there some kind of 'official timeline' wiki I'm not geek enough to be aware of?
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 16:15 |
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I think release order is the correct way to read, since even the prequels are framed in the context of whatever's going on around them in the main timeline. But what about the Alternamorphs CYOA book???
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 16:29 |
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The plan is to cover all of the books except for the Alternamorphs books. They're going to be covered in print order, which means Megamorphs 1 will be after book 7, 2 will be after book 18, 3 after book 28, and 4 after book 39. Andalite Chronicles will be after book 13, . Hork-Bajr Chronicles after 23, Visser after 35, and the Elemist Chronicles after 47. There's probably some "official timeline" somewhere, but I don't know where it is, so I'm going with chronological order. I'm ignoring the Alternamorph books because they're really, really bad and have absolutely no relationship to the main books at all. They're those choose your own adventure type gamebooks where YOU get recruited as an Animorph. They fail, though, as both stories and as gamebooks. They're made up of 3-4 page sections followed by a choice of morph. So at the end of a few pages, it's "If you morph into a flea, turn to page 6, if you morph into a dog, turn to page 7, if you morph into a giraffe, turn to page 8". If you pick the wrong choice, you lose, right there, and there are no context cues telling you what the right choice is. Meanwhile, storywise, they're basically just retellings of other Animorph books.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 16:41 |
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Counterpoint: in Alternamorphs, Jake can address me directly and tell me how cool my skateboard tricks are. I didn't realize there was more than one.
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wizzardstaff posted:Counterpoint: in Alternamorphs, Jake can address me directly and tell me how cool my skateboard tricks are. "No, no, there were two", Marco tells you. "It's just a lot of people forget the second one. It's like how people forget about Iron Man 2, because it wasn't as good as the first Iron Man" Jake looks like he's going to say something, but he stops. Then, all of a sudden, you all sense an evil presence behind you. You spin around. It's Visser 3 surrounded by Hork-Bajr guards! <Well, well, well, human children. And finally the Andalite bandits aren't around to stop me from doing what I want. Seize them! They will make worthy vessels for deserving Yeerks> If you do some cool skateboard tricks to impress Jake, turn to page 11. argue with Marco about the MCU, turn to page 12 fight Visser-3, turn to page 13
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 17:16 |
I honestly never picked up on Marco having a crush on Jake, it just seemed like a deep friendship to me. But, I'll be the first to admit I can miss cues
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 17:44 |
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I can't wait for Andalite Chronicles.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I honestly never picked up on Marco having a crush on Jake, it just seemed like a deep friendship to me. But, I'll be the first to admit I can miss cues It's probably not intentional (even though Marco being bi is now confirmed as canon), but Marco talks more in his books about Jake's looks than, say, Tobias and Ax do. Part of it is jokingly putting himself down by comparison, and if it only happened in this first book, nobody would think twice (well, maybe; he does compliment Jake's eyes here...). The quantity kinda moves it into "lol jk... unless..." memetic territory. If you wanted to make the "Marco was bi all along" argument, you might actually have better luck with Marco/Ax. Again, it's all just offhand comments and jokes, but there are quite a few of them.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 19:01 |
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Everyone thinks Ax is attractive.
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SardonicTyrant posted:Everyone thinks Ax is attractive. Yeah, but not everyone pulls Ax into their lap and says "we're very good friends".
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The Predator-Chapter 4quote:The mall was a zoo. Wall-to-wall people. Old people moving real slow. Married people with squalling babies in big huge strollers. High school kids trying to look cool. Mall police trying to look tough. Good-looking girls carrying bags from The Limited. This is just a list of dead and dying mall stores now. quote:"Let me check the map over there. Ax? Come on with . . ." Jake stopped suddenly. "Marco? Where is Ax?" Famous last words quote:"Jake, I don't want to think about the worst he could do," I said. You know it's the '90s because you can get an espresso drink from Starbucks for less than $3. Also, I worry about caffinated Ax. quote:I took Ax's arm and guided him to the pickup window. "Ax, don't go off on your own, okay? We almost lost you." The one flaw in their plan. quote:"Let's get this stuff and worry about the other thing later," Jake said calmly. But I could tell he was getting slightly hacked off. "I'll go pay for this stuff." They need to get one of those harnesses, like you have for little kids. quote:Jake grabbed the bag of stuff and raced after me out into the stream of people. That went somewhere really fast..... Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jun 29, 2020 |
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That mall description made me flinch. No one's wearing masks!Epicurius posted:This is just a list of dead and dying mall stores now. Ouch
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# ? Jun 29, 2020 02:04 |
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The first time I went to America, I made a beeline for the Cinnabon at LAX, solely because I'd built it up so much in my head since I first read this book, aged about 7. Ax knows what's up.
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oh god it just keeps getting worse and worse, ax, ax, you lovable idiot Avalerion posted:Yea the books seem really insistent on wanting to make the 2 hour time limit a serious issue when with a little more planning it really shouldn't be. That seems to be a running thing; things that shouldn't be problems, are, because these are 13 year old kids with barely the slightest clue what they're doing. Epicurius posted:"Okay, where is Radio Shack?"Jake wondered. wow, none of these stores exist anymore
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# ? Jun 29, 2020 03:00 |
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"Oh no! Ax has gotten into the telegraph station!" "Look out! Ax is headed for the candle manufactory"
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# ? Jun 29, 2020 03:35 |
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cptn_dr posted:The first time I went to America, I made a beeline for the Cinnabon at LAX, solely because I'd built it up so much in my head since I first read this book, aged about 7. Ax knows what's up.
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The Predator-Chapter 5quote:Stop!" a cop yelled. "I am ordering you to halt!" Uh-oh. quote:I quickly turned and looked at him. Only a Controller would recognize an Andalite. Marco trying to solve the problem by making stuff worse. quote:"What are you doing?!" Jake yelled. I honestly think this is the most disgusting morph this far. quote:Eat. Welp. And you thought the possibility of being stuck as a hawk was bad....
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# ? Jun 29, 2020 23:48 |
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How to get extra-disturbed as a youngster reading Animorphs: 1) read about Jake's face splitting as part of the lobster morph 2) go online and find a close-up image of a lobster's face 3) try to imagine how a human face would have to split and sprout to become a lobster's face 4) nightmares Now, 20+ years later, you don't even have to imagine, there's probably a website that will animate it for you.
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# ? Jun 29, 2020 23:57 |
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Jake, Ax, and Marco are about to get a lot of opinions on cleaning your room
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disaster pastor posted:How to get extra-disturbed as a youngster reading Animorphs: There's also this behind the scenes footage of The Thing prequel!
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# ? Jun 30, 2020 04:18 |
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"These pincers are most excellent, though" is one of the best Ax lines
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# ? Jun 30, 2020 04:45 |
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Epicurius posted:The plan is to cover all of the books except for the Alternamorphs books. They're going to be covered in print order, which means Megamorphs 1 will be after book 7, 2 will be after book 18, 3 after book 28, and 4 after book 39. Andalite Chronicles will be after book 13, . Hork-Bajr Chronicles after 23, Visser after 35, and the Elemist Chronicles after 47. Apparently publishing order is the official canonical order. A wiki said it so it must be true.
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Fuschia tude posted:Apparently publishing order is the official canonical order. A wiki said it so it must be true. Who am I to argue with a wiki? Publishing order it is!
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Chapter 6quote:According to Ax, an hour had passed when it happened. I guess it's lucky that whoever wanted a lobster dinner decided to buy all three of them quote:<NOOOOOO!> I screamed silently. Doubling down on the body horror in this book. But maybe that's just Marco less delicate about it than our previous narrators. quote:"Ahhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhh!" So lets say you're throwing a party, and so you go and buy some lobsters. Then, when you get home, two of them turn into people and one into some weird deer/scorpion hybrid. That's got to be bad for the psyche. Epicurius fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jul 1, 2020 |
# ? Jun 30, 2020 23:58 |
This book is loving horrifying.
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# ? Jul 1, 2020 00:11 |
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Robot Style posted:This reminded me of the extremely web 1.0 website dedicated to debunking Andalite torsos. That's pretty much exactly what I thought Andalites looked like up until the first book with one on the cover. K.A. Applegate said "scorpion tail" and that's the only picture of an Andalite with anything like a scorpion tail.
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# ? Jul 1, 2020 02:40 |
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jesus christ what the gently caress
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Radio Free Kobold posted:jesus christ what the gently caress Yeah I don't remember this at all. Goddamn that's horrifying
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# ? Jul 1, 2020 13:29 |
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Not even the worst thing that happens in this book
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# ? Jul 1, 2020 13:39 |
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Krazyface posted:Not even the worst thing that happens in this book I was just about to say! People talk about "remember book 5? God, that was so hosed up" and they're not talking about this part.
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We have such sights to show you.
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# ? Jul 1, 2020 13:59 |
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Marco’s life is just unceasing insanity
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Thanks to this thread, I've re-read the whole series while in lockdown. I'd originally read them when they came out, but only up to the mid-30s, so I'd never read the ending although I had been spoiled on some parts of it. Whilst it is a bit uneven, especially in the 25-45 section (Helmacrons, anyone?), I have to say I really think it holds up, and the ending especially is fantastic. A lot gets said about the body horror of the series, such as what has just happened in this book and what people are alluding to later on, but I think it's more the slow creep of how the war wears on all of the characters, and brings out some of their worst aspects and the best, that makes it so compelling. I'd highly recommend the series to anyone, but maybe look up a list of some of the weaker books to skip, and make sure you stick it through to the end.
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