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Epicurius posted:When he rapped out the word “Andalite!” she kept walking and without hesitation said, “Yeah, a light would be helpful, too.”
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What always bugged me was: when you morph something small, the extra mass gets shoved off to z-space, okay. When you morph something big, are you borrowing the mass of somebody else who's currently morphed small? Or do you keep the same mass and just have the density of styrofoam?
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How are Jara and Ket married? Jara mentions much later that he was young enough to have been born in captivity and presumably Ket is of a similar age, so did they happen to strike up a relationship during the moments while their yeerks were both out in the pool?
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Epicurius posted:So I just want to talk for a second about how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. You might think, like I did, that you know, the caterpillar sits in there, and then, I dunno, wings grow on it and other things. That's not what happens at all.
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Poor David. Did he deserve his fate? I dunno. But I feel awful for him either way (and so the Animorphs, seemingly).
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Isn't the Lerdethak the morph he used when they were in the Amazon?
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I'm so glad everyone else is having the exact same reaction I just did when I saw the word "Helmacron."
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Weirdly enough, I think "I am Canadese" is the one phrase from this entire series that's most solidly entered my lexicon. Totally forgot it was from this book!
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Edna Mode posted:I didn't think about this before, but why doesn't Jake's memories get added to the collective pool when he morphs the Howler? I guess the consciousness is only one way when you morph? Yeah I'd guess since memories are stored in the brain, not DNA, and the information stored in your own brain presumably gets shoved off into Z-space when you morph, all the Howler collective memory has to take from a morphed Howler is a blank slate.
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A lot of these middle-of-the-series books blend together, but I do remember that I'm down with this book.
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Why not ask the Chee to brain surgery Ax while they're at it? Surely one of them must have been a xenoneurosurgeon at some point. Or is surgery too violent an action for them to perform?
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WrightOfWay posted:Is Visser Three actually good at combat? He's certainly personally formidable but it seems like his only real military victory on screen in the series so far is defeating a vastly outnumbered Andalite Dome Ship at the beginning. At the very least being able to read Alloran's brain seems like it would be a massive strategic advantage for him.
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CidGregor posted:I was wondering exactly this myself. It seems like we always refer to V1 as female just because of being in marco's mom and V3 as male because of Alloran and so on for simplicity's sake, but I legit don't remember if Yeerk genders are addressed as a thing. Part of me actually wants to say "no." If their reproduction process involves three Yeerks, it's kind of a lot harder to conceptualize a species having three genders instead of one/genderless, and it's far easier to extrapolate that they just kind of assume the gendered pronouns of their hosts for convenience. Yeah, who could even imagine a world without a gender binary
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Oh, poo poo. It's this book.
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Yeah, and like, even if Visser Three inherited Alloran's prejudices about Mertil, it's still strategically advantageous on at least three levels to infest him. He's got more up-to-date insider intel than Alloran, he's still an ace fighter pilot, and it's a slap in the face that the Yeerks have now infested two Andalites. It doesn't even take away your leverage with Gaf, because nobody ever has to know he was infested at all. ...I really hope Mertil wasn't secretly infested.
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Tree Bucket posted:I can't believe Jake hates democracy and freedom Jake hates handguns specifically but he's super into assault rifles to arm the proletariat
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Man, I'd forgotten about this one. What a fantastically stupid premise.
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"Perhaps he was dictating-" "Oh, shut up!"
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quote:“Who are you?!” the child raged. “Who are you to play games with us? And why are you called 'The xXe11imi$t_420Xx [RDT]'?"
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fitting that an entire civilization is destroyed because aliens caught their Twitch broadcasts
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quote:I had devised a tactic of improvising in duet. I would offer a musical phrase, play for a few moments, then invite him to pick up the thread and extrapolate.
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Did V1 just go directly between morphs?
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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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Great to have you back, glad you're doing well! And hey, is that our first official artwork of a taxxon?
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Thanks for taking us through this journey, Epicurius! Hope you have some more time to focus on your health now. The first Alternamorphs book was the first thing I actually ever read from the series, so I'm looking forward to reliving it now.
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I have no memory of this place, so sure, I'm actually looking forward to this.
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Wow. This sucks.
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