r/Animorphs

So, for those like myself who've forgotten, Taylor's plan was to create a giant natural gas explosion in the yeerk pool area, killing thousands. Cassie was so distraught at the idea that she chose to sit that mission out entirely, and ultimately putting a stop to it altogether.

In #52 The Sacrifice the Animorphs bomb the pool with 10, one-thousand pound bombs. Cassie objects, but ultimately goes along with it. They give people a 5 minute escape period, but like, damn. Not much of difference. Anyone notice how similar these two plans are?

Great book by the way. I don't believe Tobias has any bad books when I think about it.

Title says it all. Shawn Ashmore is coming to Atlanta, GA in September! See any of you there? My partner and I will be coming from Greenville, SC and attending Friday. I am going to have him sign my Invasion Series Part 1 VHS :) So excited!

Why just recount what happened and not narrate it in a book?

How would the story change?

And how this effect ax emotionally?

So in book #27, the pemalite ship is so deep in the ocean that they need giant squid to reach it, then at the end of that book it says that Erek moves the ship to an even deeper depth that only an android could reach, but then in book #36 it’s suddenly reachable again? And they just need killer whale morphs to get there? Make it make sense

I'm rereading the series for the first time in decades (on book 14 now), and so far it feels like half of the books only have a plot because the team can't stop lying to each other, or at the very least holding back critical information. It's classic sitcom "if you just told other people what's going on, you'd solve this in 5 seconds. However, we need a full plot for this episode/book, so you're going to withhold information and lie to create conflict and pad out the runtime/number of pages."

Marco - "Jake, don't tell anybody that my mom is Visser One. It's none of their business." Yeah, because they clearly would never need to know that the highest ranked Yeerk outside of the council is residing in Marco's mom and just might cause a conflict of interest. /s

Jake - "I'm experiencing a weirdly realistic jungle flashback, better hide that from everybody until the very last second." Granted, I don't think that Ax would have thought about Sario Rips based on the random flashbacks, and it only really made sense after the situation already happened, but Jake is the leader and always got pissed at everyone else for keeping secrets. Rules for thee but not for me, eh?

Rachel - "I'm suffering from an alligator a crocodile allergy that causes spontaneous morphing, but I'm Rachel the Invincible, so first I'm going to lie about what's happening until I get caught in the act and almost get the whole team killed by Visser Three, and then I'm going to tell everybody that I did the 'DNA burp' thing that Ax talked about even though I don't even know what that means. Wow, this boy is cute (<- realistic for a 13-year-old girl, but still an annoying subplot)" This was by far Rachel's most selfish book to-date.

Cassie - "It's book 9 and I'm already guilt-ridden about the war, so I'm going to pretend to be a skunk mom to sneak into her den without telling anybody (except Tobias, who only knew because he showed her where it was) and almost get trapped in morph because my heart bleeds way too much." Luckily Tobias isn't a dumbass, and immediately went to tell Jake.

Tobias - "I hate my life as a human and won't tell anybody just how obsessed I am with being a hawk." This led to him getting stuck in morph approximately 5 seconds into the series, which lowered the Animorphs' fighting power by 20% right off the bat.

Ax - Just the entirety of Book 8 from cover to cover lol.

So... I know some people dislike book 9's ending for being a bit goofy. "Haha we tricked Visser 3, told him grape juice instead of tomato juice".

Which, I get, but also they are kids, I could see them pulling a stunt like that.

But to me, the biggest issue I've got with it is that I feel like there was potential, later in the series, for them to end up in a situation where they want to compromise with Visser 3, and he refuses, on the basis that they've broken compromises and deals like that in the past, bringing up that incident. Leading to actual consequences.

I feel like it would fit really well with the message the series is trying to portray, and would take a silly one-off moment and give it surprise weight later on. Because genuinely, that is what happens: you break deals, people refuse to make deals.

I don't know, just a simple thought that was in my head throughout my reread.