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pile of brown posted:I think its the first time we see ax use human sarcasm, yes? With him agreeing he loves humanity because of the cinnamon buns? I don't think he's being sarcastic there. I think he's just lying to her because he doesn't want to or feel able to explain to her how he's come to respect and care for humanity and his human friends. He knows she'll never understand that he can consider a non-Andalite worthy of respect.
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freebooter posted:Really strong book, would have fit in just fine as a non-ghostwritten one. Honestly, even despite that string of a few bad ones in a row we just went through, I still feel like the ghostwritten books might be slightly better on average than the Applegrant ones; at least the ones so far. The original authors certainly didn't maintain a perfect track record themselves.
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# ? Mar 19, 2022 07:45 |
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Epicurius posted:With him agreeing he loves humanity because of the cinnamon buns? I don't think he's being sarcastic there. I think he's just lying to her because he doesn't want to or feel able to explain to her how he's come to respect and care for humanity and his human friends. He knows she'll never understand that he can consider a non-Andalite worthy of respect. I can see that reading too but Marco being the next to speak implies to.me he was learning from Marco
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# ? Mar 19, 2022 07:53 |
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I think this is one of the better books in general definitely. I like the bigger space/weird alien books, but they are usually not as grounded as other animorphs books. This one had a ragtag alien crew, but also the crushing emotions you come to expect in an animorphs book.
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 00:32 |
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The Hidden This is ghostwritten by Laura Battyanyi-Wiess, who we've met before. Chapter 1 quote:My name is Cassie. I don't know. I'm thinking this is unusually clever of the Yeerks Chapter 2 quote:Have you ever had one of those horrible dreams where something is chasing you and no matter how fast you try to run, you’re not getting anywhere? So, Cassie has the morphing cube on her and she's got Yeerks trying to track her, in summary.
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 03:17 |
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I guess they couldn't have anticipated this happening but not a good idea in hindsight to just stash it in the barn instead of putting it into the care of the Chee. Have Erek put it down in the Pemalite ship where the Yeerks can never get it, if need be.
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 06:31 |
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freebooter posted:I guess they couldn't have anticipated this happening but not a good idea in hindsight to just stash it in the barn instead of putting it into the care of the Chee. Have Erek put it down in the Pemalite ship where the Yeerks can never get it, if need be. The Chee would probably consider it a weapon and refuse. Erek could have offered to store it instead of telling her to run with it.
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# ? Mar 20, 2022 07:00 |
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Chapter 3quote:<Nice,> Tobias said. <He didn’t see you but the copters are still tracking you and feeding the ground guys info. Keep going.> Cape Buffalo are actually one of the most dangerous of the big African animals, It's said that back when big game hunting was popular, they killed more than any of the other types of big game. They're big, they're strong, and they have really big and sharp horns. Also, I'll point out another poor leadership example. Like we've seen before, if your subordinates are too scared of you to give you bad news, you don't find out what you need to know. Chapter 4 quote:Several things happened at once. Visser Three deserves to be gored here.
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:26 |
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Visser Three deserves to be gored every day
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# ? Mar 21, 2022 14:39 |
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Chapter 5quote:Fury Sadly, Visser Three was neither trampled nor gored. That was reserved for Chapman. That Yeerk has the worst job. Chapter 6 quote:I crashed through the underbrush, trampling saplings and ripping through sticker bushes without a second thought. The new Animorphs are four human teens, one Andalite cadet, a hawk, and a Cape Buffalo.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 02:44 |
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Oh god did the buffalo somehow trigger the morphing cube? And then acquire Chapman while rampaging through him? What the actual gently caress
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 03:32 |
yessssssssssssss i wondered if it was this book!!!!
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 03:40 |
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CidGregor posted:What the actual gently caress
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 03:53 |
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For a brief moment, I thought Chapman had acquired (lol) the morphing ability, but no, they really are going to be chasing down the world's most confused buffalo. Oh my god, I love this already.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 04:12 |
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Okay I am strapped in and HERE for this nonsense, yes please.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 04:16 |
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Scholastic editor: Listen, I actually got around to reading some of your Animorphs books and you need to tone it down on the body horror, OK? These books are for children, for Christ's sake. KA (not really paying attention): No sweat. You got it.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 04:17 |
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Lmao at Chapman getting owned once again.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 04:27 |
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How many forklift or exotic animal-related injuries has Chapman suffered now...?freebooter posted:Scholastic editor: Listen, I actually got around to reading some of your Animorphs books and you need to tone it down on the body horror, OK? These books are for children, for Christ's sake. KA probably heard "mwa mwa mwa mwa BODY HORROR mwa mwa mwa" and acted accordingly.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 04:45 |
Oh, poo poo. It's this book.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 05:06 |
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Tree Bucket posted:KA probably heard "mwa mwa mwa mwa BODY HORROR mwa mwa mwa" and acted accordingly. Michael Grant: The punters are going absolutely wild for the body horror. They're loving it. The problem is, we've exhausted every horizon. There's no more body horror left to write about! KA: Hold my beer
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 09:18 |
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freebooter posted:Michael Grant: The punters are going absolutely wild for the body horror. They're loving it. The problem is, we've exhausted every horizon. There's no more body horror left to write about! The secret to a long and happy marriage: find yourself a wife who's even more gleefully hosed up than you are.
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# ? Mar 22, 2022 09:42 |
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Chapter 7quote:A freak of nature. Right. Even putting aside the body horror, this is a pretty terrible and sort of unwinnable situation, isn't it? Chapter 8 quote:I ran hard for a long time. Trying to put that last picture of the buffa-human out of my mind. The Chapalo is a direct threat to the Animorphs. I'm loving this book because it's willing to just go with it, you know?
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 02:55 |
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Epicurius posted:“We should go wolf,” I answered. “That way we can move quickly and I can carry the morphing cube. I’m pretty sure there’s a cave a few miles from here. The one I found when I was lost with Karen.” The thought of Karen gave me a good feeling. She was a little girl who’d been infested by a Yeerk. But now she was free and the Yeerk had become part of the Yeerk peace movement. The thought also helped me remember that a few good things have happened to us since all this started. I guess that stands for something. I don't remember much of this book at all but this makes me feel like Aftran is going to crop up, otherwise this is a really clumsy and pointless paragraph. edit - I just remembered Aftran's a whale now so scratch that. The Yeerk peace movement cropping up? It does feel kind of weird how underutilised they are. I get that the Anirmorphs aren't going to want to trust them as much as they do the Chee, but it's an interesting aspect of the overall story which feels like it just went by the wayside.
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 03:31 |
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I thought you had to touch the Cube at the same time as something who could already morph? That was the deal in book one and with David, right? I guess we're handwaving that away to make for a more interesting book. That's fine. The Chapman buffalo is horrific.
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 16:19 |
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Bobulus posted:I thought you had to touch the Cube at the same time as something who could already morph? That was the deal in book one and with David, right? I guess we're handwaving that away to make for a more interesting book. Well, they're definitely handwaving it away, at least... But, yes, there needs to be intent to use the cube to pass along the morphing ability, and intent (and time) to acquire DNA. Except in this book.
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 16:26 |
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Have they explicitly said that? I reread the morphing cube bits with Elfangor and David. While Ax holds out the box, it doesn't say he does anything special with it. Elfangor does deliberately touch a side, and that seemingly started the process, but that could have just been him directing because he already knows what it's about. Maybe it just requires you to know about morphing; the buffalo didn't touch it until after Cassie morphed after all.
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Nihilarian posted:Have they explicitly said that? I reread the morphing cube bits with Elfangor and David. While Ax holds out the box, it doesn't say he does anything special with it. Elfangor does deliberately touch a side, and that seemingly started the process, but that could have just been him directing because he already knows what it's about. Maybe it just requires you to know about morphing; the buffalo didn't touch it until after Cassie morphed after all. If having touched it and knowing about morphing were sufficient, Ax wouldn't have needed to hold it out for David at all; David had already touched it more than all of them combined.
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# ? Mar 23, 2022 23:52 |
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Yeah I think it definitely requires someone who's already morph-capable to pass it on. The biggest plot hole IMO is that this is incredibly useful and dangerous technology they'd want to keep out of the hands of the Yeerks... but Andalite fighters apparently carry them as standard equipment while they're off getting shot down on distant Yeerk-controlled planets.
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# ? Mar 24, 2022 00:05 |
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disaster pastor posted:If having touched it and knowing about morphing were sufficient, Ax wouldn't have needed to hold it out for David at all; David had already touched it more than all of them combined.
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https://twitter.com/StrahanCole/status/1489884319527366662?t=SWv1Ld5Co6sGuBAixm86VQ&s=19
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# ? Mar 24, 2022 02:01 |
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I guess the simple rule would be that the device activates when a being that can morph touches it.
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# ? Mar 24, 2022 02:02 |
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As much as I like the series, there's a lot that falls apart if you look at it too hard. I blame the Elimist and Crayak. Chapter 9 quote:Wolves can move. Quickly. Quietly. And for a very long time. The five of us blew through the woods until we finally found the cave. Tobias stayed overhead. Our own personal eye in the sky. So what's the ethics about killing a morphing buffalo that has your vice-principal's DNA? I guess that while I don't share Cassie's moral reservations here, I sympathize with her and good on her for bringing it up. Chapter 10 quote:I morphed. So what's the ethics about killing a morphing buffalo that has your vice-principal's DNA and just saved your life? Epicurius fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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I think it's a hell of a lot more ethical than killing a human helicopter crew, which they don't seem to have batted an eyelid at
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# ? Mar 24, 2022 03:36 |
Oh please, there are plenty more helicopter crews, how many buffahumans have you seen?
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# ? Mar 24, 2022 03:42 |
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I have an extremely nuanced and well considered moral argument about what to do with a hideous buffo-man abomination: Kill it kill it kill it oh god what the gently caress even is it kill it kill it put it out of its misery oh god its got a human head kill it kill it
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I have an extremely nuanced and well considered moral argument about what to do with a hideous buffo-man abomination: Kill it kill it kill it oh god what the gently caress even is it kill it kill it put it out of its misery oh god its got a human head kill it kill it Okay, Janeway.
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Cythereal posted:Okay,
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# ? Mar 24, 2022 21:25 |
Please, Alloran would point the thing at the Yeerks and keep a shredder trained on it to waste it the instant it might get captured.
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# ? Mar 24, 2022 21:44 |
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None of these are counter-arguments
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And of course the buffabomination shows up in the book narrated by the strongly empathetic animal-lover who is also an artistically skilled morpher.
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