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I remember there's a line in book 15 where this yet-unintroduced character points out how odd it is the Andalite bandits have never killed a human, which I found really jarring. They might try not to, but there's no way they haven't done it accidentally by then.
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Gotta go human first. It becomes a plot point many, many times.
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Grammarchist posted:I have the mental image of a squirrel being in a North By Northwest situation. Like Visser Three took it into custody thinking it was an Andalite, but it escaped and is now chewing through the wires of his ship and always escaping through sheer luck and pluck while Visser Three commends it as an honorable foe. This kind of happens at one point; it's the plot of book 39. It's not a particularly good book, but it's one of the more interesting ones from that era, which is the low point of the series IMO. I read these books all out of order, after the series was over. I remember when I finally got around to reading book 1, and was shocked at how much was set up just in that. Like I'd always assumed Tobias getting stuck happened two or three books in.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:So far I have really loved how the kids have been shown to use morphing when they're not on a mission. It's one of my favourite running gags of the first couple books. Jake constantly tells them not to do it, and everyone including Jake does it anyway.
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May 6, 2020 01:14
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My most-reads are probably either 18 (the one where they go to Leera), or 24 (the Helmacron one). Kid-me had no interest in angst, just fun desperate space adventures.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I remember the lobster morph being a particularly bad one, description-wise so I'm looking forward to seeing how gross the morphs get. Pity that the flea morph was offscreen, do they ever use that one again? Seems like it would be somewhat helpful for low-stakes infiltration, especially if you enlist someone else in morph as a watcher to keep an eye on whoever the flea is on. I half-remember there being a scene where Marco almost gets stuck halfway out of a flea-morph, it's really awful. That happens a while from now, maybe in the David books. I think Cassie saves the day that time too.
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May 15, 2020 02:00
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Daikloktos posted:Hork Bajir have better vision than humans? I don't know that that tracks, though I guess the Arn could have juiced then any which way I believe they have better depth perception but weaker colour distinction. I don't know why my brain holds onto this information, but there you go.
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May 27, 2020 08:02
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They're blind, and can't live outside of water for long. You basically need to drop the yeerk straight into the ear.
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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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Not even the worst thing that happens in this book
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Jul 1, 2020 13:39
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There's a handful of times in the series where we get to see what it's like to be on the receiving end of the animorphs, and it's always terrifying
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Megamorphs 1 isn't very good. It's neat to see one of these written from multiple perspectives, but the later attempts (especially 3 and 4) do it better.
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Oh poo poo, I forgot this one had that bit where Marco drives
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Aug 20, 2020 11:49
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Maybe she forces them to rotate, so they don't get attached to their hosts
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Aug 24, 2020 04:25
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Joey had a SON?
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Aug 29, 2020 02:31
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The reuse of the stalk-eyes is inspired
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While we're talking Animorphs transformers, at one point they devised this:  To be clear, the first set of images are supposed to be Jake, Marco, and Cassie in just their regular human forms.
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Aug 31, 2020 13:41
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Canny of Marco to get him into a human morph before he started asking questions
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Sep 1, 2020 08:12
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The elite hork-bajir guard he sent in were actually the Animorphs in morph! Actually that one would fit in with their MO.
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Yeah I remember like a wall of tapes, most of them with cramped labels from having a couple of things on them (except for The Matrix which was written in big spaced-out vertical caps)
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Oct 19, 2020 04:54
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Yeah this is the first of several Jake-is-all-alone books spread across the series
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freebooter posted:I really didn't remember it ending this abruptly! If I remember right, the big yellow snake reappears in book 15, though of course that's a Marco and he doesn't recognise it
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I believe this is the final Rachel book in the series. She has a couple chapters in some later books, but this is the last one that's totally hers.
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Sep 13, 2022 01:18
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If I remember right, next book is The Last Caper
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Nov 3, 2022 03:45
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Jake unwittingly gave Tom the ability to morph when he handed over the cube. There's zero evidence for this theory, but it's neat.
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Nov 5, 2022 03:11
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I absolutely fuckin love the Everworld books and I want everyone else to love them too
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I mean the Animorphs and the Andalites basically have the same plan: let the Yeerks concentrate, then kill them (and their hosts) en masse. Just a question of scale.
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Ax deliberately seeking out a conversation with another person is kind of a crazy moment for his character.
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Man, this one's just Animorphs: 
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Dec 14, 2022 05:59
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Book 53, The Answer, is a Jake. It’s also the first time we’ve gotten Jake’s perspective since 47 (the Civil War one). Wonder how he’s doin.
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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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HOW many Taxxons, Arbron?
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Mar 13, 2023 23:39
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"Oh, that week we were all in the Arctic? Actually Ax was at home for that one, he spent the whole time swapping between morphs and running all our lives. Real classic sitcom two-dates-at-once type stuff."
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They’re not good by any stretch, but I’ll always respect the second one for its premise of “play as David”.
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I say we go fer it I'm halfway sure that Hamster is the only choice that doesn't lead to immediate death, but the pun, it spoke to me Kazzah fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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Apr 12, 2023 00:39
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A dog in the school might finally get Superintendant Chalmers to fire Chapman, but I don't think our character is 100% on him being a controller, so let's stealth it up with the Ferret again
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Hell of a thread, hell of a poster
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