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A little late, but rereading the last book it's kind of wild to me that they stressed so much giving people in the pool time to escape and then cut to the downtown crater with collapsed skyscrapers, no doubt filled with the corpses of people who had no warning whatsoever.Epicurius posted:My name is Jake. This always stuck with me over the years. I knew the series was nearly at an end, but when he gave his last name I was like oooh poo poo, here we go. I misremembered it as coming in the last book though.
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Can't believe the Emillist edited time to change his name, which used to be Jake Berenstein
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effervescible posted:A little late, but rereading the last book it's kind of wild to me that they stressed so much giving people in the pool time to escape and then cut to the downtown crater with collapsed skyscrapers, no doubt filled with the corpses of people who had no warning whatsoever. I think this can be put down to a bunch of teenagers not really understanding the probable effect of detonating 12kt of explosives underground in the middle of a city.
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Strategic Tea posted:Can't believe the Emillist edited time to change his name, which used to be Jake Berenstein
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Saros posted:I think this can be put down to a bunch of teenagers not really understanding the probable effect of detonating 12kt of explosives underground in the middle of a city. Yeah that is a good point.
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It looks dark now but it lightens up in the next book when Marco single handedly ends the war by throwing a Baby Ruth bar in the Yeerk pool.
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Chapter 4quote:I pulled Tobias and Marco aside after the council of war. I know the Taxxon-Catepillar thing isn't am intentional joke, but still... Also, the Jake-Cassie thing is bad. Chapter 5 quote:They called it ATF-1. Alien Task Force One. i wonder if any of those controllers would be dead from kandrona starvation anyway.
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quote:The morphing process has never been the kind of neat, smooth, fluid thing you see in a computer animated special effect. Poking fun at their own book covers?
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Poking fun at their own book covers? The TV show, actually. They very vocally hated how quite and effortlessly AniTV made the morphing process look. Applegate and Grant have nothing but praise and respect for David Mattingly and his work.
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Epicurius posted:i wonder if any of those controllers would be dead from kandrona starvation anyway. Another case of the compressed timeline of these last books for sure. There's a lot of dramatic tension that could have been wrung out of the premise. Also enjoying the "bitch please I've been to space" moment with Jake and the General. Getting Tom Holland's Spider-Man vibes in the good way.
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# ? Jan 5, 2023 07:29 |
I can't help but to edit Jake's dialogue there out of YA mode, my boy is frustrated enough with this bullshit to drop an f bomb
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Sorry. Sleeping tonight. Posts tomorrow.
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Chapter 6quote:BOOM! BOOM! We missed the opportunity to make "What? Are you some sort of tiger?" the thread title Chapter 7 quote:Doubleday listened after that. He evacuated his headquarters at top speed. The Yeerks would be back, especially now that they knew we were there. Fortunately, like a good general, he had a fallback position. Poor Taxxons. Also, even if you were in touch with the Chee, they won't give you info to let you kill Tsxxons.
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# ? Jan 7, 2023 04:54 |
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Animorphs: There was not an endless supply of Taxxons.
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# ? Jan 7, 2023 05:06 |
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Someone remind me: when was the last appearance of the Chee?
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Vandar posted:Someone remind me: when was the last appearance of the Chee? They helped get the families out.
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chapter 8quote:At the beginning of the American Civil War both sides thought the war was about taking or holding cities and ports and rivers and mountain passes. They thought it was a chess game. Jake has lost Cassie as an advisor, which pretty much means he's lost any moral restraint. Chapter 9 quote:<Aaahhh!> It's our friend Arbron! This is also wjhat the Yeerks get for having allies instead of slaves.
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# ? Jan 8, 2023 05:33 |
Second mention of Saint Sherman. Embrace it, Jake.
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# ? Jan 8, 2023 05:47 |
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While I don't think it's intentional, it's interesting that an Andalite nothlit is the voice of the Taxxons' plea to basically be soft genocided. They sure love genocide.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:While I don't think it's intentional, it's interesting that an Andalite nothlit is the voice of the Taxxons' plea to basically be soft genocided. They sure love genocide. He's a student of Alloran-"Sweet Space Jesus I Fukkin LOOOOOOOVE Genocide"-Semitur-Corrass. Of course Arbron lusts for racial extinction. The old man taught him well.
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Well, there did seem to be an abnormally few number of species on the Andalite homeworld....
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In fairness, being a Taxxon seems to really fuckin' suck
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So the Yeerks have kept the Taxxons in line all these years by either infestation, or by promising them more stuff to eat right?
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There's something really cold about helping decide the fate of a species with a (psudeo) member of a species that you were just openly headhunting moments ago.
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mind the walrus posted:So the Yeerks have kept the Taxxons in line all these years by either infestation, or by promising them more stuff to eat right? So he says. I don't think we've heard that there are a lot of voluntary Taxxon controllers, or uninfested collaborators, in past books, have we? Fuschia tude fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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Yeah it seems like a punishment detail more than anything. Though if I remember right there's a Taxxon-controller on the Council, so maybe there's a sort of charm to it.
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Taxxon-Controllers apparently make great pilots, so they've got that going for them at least. I guess.
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Maybe having a Yeerk lessens the hunger a bit for the Taxxon. Though if so then probably not by much since hosts can still feel pain and such while a Yeerk is in control. Or maybe it relieves the Taxxon of the mental strain that comes with stopping itself from eating everyone around it. The Yeerk is now in charge of restraining the instinct while the Taxxon can relax so to speak.
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dungeon cousin posted:Maybe having a Yeerk lessens the hunger a bit for the Taxxon. Though if so then probably not by much since hosts can still feel pain and such while a Yeerk is in control. I believe this was explicitly stated, as was the non-Controlled collaboraters thing. I can't for the life of me remember when, though.
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It was mentioned early on that the Taxxons allied with the Yeerks because it helped control their hunger.
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A species whose existence sucks utilising technology to become a species (or multiple species) whose existence doesn't suck isn't genocide. The non-Taxxons of the future will sing songs about their Taxxon ancestors who fought for their freedom from hunger! Paternalistic humans need to respect Taxxon agency! But please ignore the Avatar-esque Andalite Saviour narrative going on with Arbron. (Jokes aside, I do really love that they managed to work Arbron back into the story.) Also, you can really tell this book is written by the Applegates again. The ghostwriters have often done a sterling job back when the series was treading water, but the cracks were starting to show over the past few books when the story was coming to a head in less space than it deserved even under a more talented hand. But there's just something more naturally talented about the Applegates' writing, both overall and on a sentence by sentence level, that makes this book feel more solid. I'm glad they're back and it's a shame it didn't happen sooner.
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Just wanted to give my apologies. I've been in the hospital with what looks to be a blood. Stuff is on hold until I get medical stuff straightedge out, which I hope to happen soon
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# ? Jan 12, 2023 20:09 |
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Look you can just admit that the Kandora rays are harder to come by in this economy, we won't judge (feel better, stay safe, all that jazz)
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Also, the problem with the non-taxxons is that, assume they don't turn into andalites or human or whatever, the offspring of nothlits. So there won't be a second generation.
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The only other options Taxxons have is finding someone who is able and willing to genetically modify them- which raises a Ship of Theseus style question about 'are these really still Taxxons?', if it's even possible for them- or to just keep going as is, which they hate SO MUCH they willingly let parasites mind-control them. Maybe they could develop some kind of medicine instead of straight up genetic modification, but the Taxxon idea of medical science is a buffet, so. Maybe the guy who explained what was up with the Hork-bajir could help them out, but he was a dick so I doubt it.
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Zonko_T.M. posted:The only other options Taxxons have is finding someone who is able and willing to genetically modify them- which raises a Ship of Theseus style question about 'are these really still Taxxons?', if it's even possible for them- or to just keep going as is, which they hate SO MUCH they willingly let parasites mind-control them. Maybe they could develop some kind of medicine instead of straight up genetic modification, but the Taxxon idea of medical science is a buffet, so. Yeah, I don't think the Arn would be in any real hurry to try and help out any lingering vestige of the Yeerk Empire, regardless of their actual culpability. But they're all basically dead now, so that one's kind of moot. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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Epicurius posted:Just wanted to give my apologies. I've been in the hospital with what looks to be a blood. Don't feel bad, that's understandable. We know you're new to the experience of having Earth blood.
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Rest up and get well, friend, the war can wait.
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Fuschia tude posted:Don't feel bad, that's understandable. We know you're new to the experience of having Earth blood. They’re everyone’s blood, A- oh. I guess it technically isn’t. Carry on.
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Epicurius posted:Just wanted to give my apologies. I've been in the hospital with what looks to be a blood. Stuff is on hold until I get medical stuff straightedge out, which I hope to happen soon Hope you're doing okay, man.
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