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Oh, no. Feel better soon!
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Just amputate the leg, morph, and demorph, I don't know what the problem is? Aw man that sucks, wishing you a quick recovery!
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# ? Sep 21, 2020 16:41 |
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Gee, I hope OP's having an ok time in hospital. I heard they got a jaccuzi installed there for leg rehab stuff, so they should be fine
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 11:44 |
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I heard it's a yeerk front
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 13:57 |
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Epicurius posted:So, are we going to find out what's wrong with Erek? Yes, probably, but not for the next few days because I'm in the hospital with a leg infection. Sorry about that Yikes, hopefully the first round of whatever antibiotic they give you does the trick.
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# ? Sep 24, 2020 01:32 |
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I'm really excited that this thread exists and after finding it a few weeks ago, I'm finally caught up! Like many on here I read the poo poo out of these in middle school although I dropped off somewhere in the 20s or 30s but definitely read the andalite and HB Chronicles. Pretty sure I made it to megamorphs #4. Later on in high school I noticed that the series had ended and skimmed the last few books to see how it ended. I'm looking forward to going through all of the books again with the eyes of an adult. A few thoughts/musings/questions since starting to read this thread a month ago. If you'll indulge me: 1. Epi, what drew you to these books later on as they were, as you put it, "after your time"? I'm definitely glad you did and enjoy your insights as you post. Also, get feeling better soon. 2. This always bothered me as a kid but KAA seems to make it very clear that morphing can take several minutes. I'm not sure if that's literal or she meant it more figuratively like "it's not instantaneous". The reason this bothered me is there are several instances when they only have what appears to be 10 or 20 seconds before someone comes across them mid-morph or like when during megamorphs one when Marco and ax fall 2 miles above the ground out of the ship. That would mean ax and marco would of have 4- 6 minutes to morph from flea/gorilla to andalite/human to birds and Marco barely made it. For reasons like this I always ignored the "a few minutes" and changed it in my mind to take 20 to 30 seconds. Any thoughts on this? 3. I waited for weeks for the premiere of the tv show and even with my very low expectations and bar for what was considered good then.....oof...I wasn't sad when it was cancelled 4. It's funny what stayed with me these last 16 years and what I forgot. Like many, I vividly remember the ant scene, but upon reread, the scene itself wasn't as bad as I remembered. I believe Avalerion pointed this out as a first time experiencer of this in the thread after others had built it up ahead of time. However, after reading the books after it, I think it was drilled into our heads as kids because of how often they refer to it in later books as being absolutely horrible. 5. I have to agree with others that while I saw Visser as a bad, scary villain as a kid, I see him as a caricature of the worst bosses I have had. There is a sense of dread when he shows up, but it's for other reasons now. I'm sure I'm forgetting some but this has already gotten longer than I expected. Glad to have finally caught up Synesthesian Fetish fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Sep 25, 2020 |
# ? Sep 25, 2020 00:27 |
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Epicurius posted:So, are we going to find out what's wrong with Erek? Yes, probably, but not for the next few days because I'm in the hospital with a leg infection. Sorry about that drat, now's an even worse time for that than usual. Hope you get better and get out asap!
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# ? Sep 25, 2020 06:15 |
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:2. This always bothered me as a kid but KAA seems to make it very clear that morphing can take several minutes. I'm not sure if that's literal or she meant it more figuratively like "it's not instantaneous". The reason this bothered me is there are several instances when they only have what appears to be 10 or 20 seconds before someone comes across them mid-morph or like when during megamorphs one when Marco and ax fall 2 miles above the ground out of the ship. That would mean ax and marco would of have 4- 6 minutes to morph from flea/gorilla to andalite/human to birds and Marco barely made it. Maybe morphing takes longer in the first few books because the protagonists are new to it? And/or you can morph a bit faster if you're really desperate?
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# ? Sep 26, 2020 04:16 |
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Just caught up. Animorphs was my go-to light reading as a child, I think I reread the books I did have a dozen times each, so my memories of the books are very strongly in the first dozen and change, which I re-read enough that it was like that part of the story lasted waaaay longer. I was an awkward poorly socialized weirdo so Tobias and Axe were my automatic favorites, although in Tobias' case I was like, well, yeah, I'd give up being a human that's fine, school sucks. Reading through these again, with the way the world is right now and what it's done to my life, I'm getting to relieve that feeling of "Yeah I'd take that as an out" again. Animorphs also made me stop killing bugs basically entirely, which lasted up until present day, initially because a part of me always thought "Whoa, wait, what if this is THEM on a SECRET MISSION?" I was like 8 years old at the time, it was a reasonable fear! I checked out somepoint during the filler arcs. I think in the late 30s? Sometime in 2000? Even in my immature dumb child state I was able to tell the writing quality was dipping and the story was getting kind of meandering and glut with weird things. I don't think I ever really liked the Ellimist and whatever the guy with the C name were up to--the original story as presented gave them a lot of concrete, down-to-earth consequences, stakes, and enemies, and introducing cosmic horror beings into it, for me, escalated it into a realm of "okay, wait, really?" In the writers' defense they did keep the kids' reactions, afair, to the increasing number of bizarre factions, believable in their feeling of "c'mon seriously we have to deal with this now too?" which is probably why I did last so long. I think moving from elementary school and into highschool meant I lost access to monthly scholastic magazines, so getting them also meant going further out of my way. Unfortunate time to catch up, hope you recover well, OP. FlocksOfMice fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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My friend just sent our group chat a picture of her preteen daughter curled up around The Invasion, reporting that she gave it the rare praise of "it's getting interesting now". High hopes for this one. Get well soon, Epicurius.
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# ? Sep 26, 2020 05:39 |
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Silver2195 posted:Maybe morphing takes longer in the first few books because the protagonists are new to it? And/or you can morph a bit faster if you're really desperate? I know that morphing takes two minutes. I haven't, excepting this thread, touched any of the books since middle school, and I will accept evidence to the contrary, but I 100% believe this to be accurate.
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# ? Sep 26, 2020 09:24 |
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Rochallor posted:I know that morphing takes two minutes. I haven't, excepting this thread, touched any of the books since middle school, and I will accept evidence to the contrary, but I 100% believe this to be accurate. There's also a time dilative effect induced unintentionally thanks to the narrative and descriptive process as well. Morphing is the headline attraction of the books, so Applegrate and Grant slow the story down to give you an A to Z look at the process so that you can focus on it and picture it happening. That's just a reality of writing prose in general; description slows the pace down, even when its describing action. It's classic Fiction 101 "show don't tell", but good writers know when to show and when to tell, so the important or first time morphs get that lovingly long descriptive scenes while repeat morphs and more action intense scenes get quicker glosses. Epicurius posted:So, are we going to find out what's wrong with Erek? Yes, probably, but not for the next few days because I'm in the hospital with a leg infection. Sorry about that I hope everything goes well for you and you get out soon. As someone who was once laid up in the hospital while in the midst of a forums project as well, I can relate 100% and I can only guess how eager you are to jut get back at it.
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:I'm really excited that this thread exists and after finding it a few weeks ago, I'm finally caught up! It's really a simple story. A year or so ago, the rerelease of The Invasion was on sale on kindle. I vaguely had heard of the series, so I figured I'd read it and see if I liked it
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# ? Sep 26, 2020 13:12 |
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Is this thread dead?
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 20:34 |
Visser Three didn't like what it said about him
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 20:52 |
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:Is this thread dead? I can't tell you where I live. I can't tell you my last name. I can't even tell you if epicurius is my real name. I want to tell you, but I can't. The reason I can't is that I know a secret. Earth is being invaded by aliens. Forget about what you think about aliens. These aren't ET or Chewbacca. They're called the Yeerks, and they're these giant alien slugs. They get into your brain, and then they take you over. You may look like you. You may even act like you, but inside, everything you do and say is controlled by the Yeerk. Anyone you know could be a Yeerk: your parents, your best friend, your next door neighbor, anyone, and you wouldn't know. I know it seems hopeless. But the Yeerks have enemies of their own. Another alien race called the Andalites has vowed to stop the Yeers, and is fighting a giant war in space against them. One of the Andalite generals, Prince Elfangor, crashed on earth, and before he was killed by the evil Visser Theee, leader of the Yeerk invasion, found five brave kids, and taught them the power to morph...to change into any animal they touched. Calling themselves the Animorphs, they vowed to use this power to fight the Yeerks however they could. I managed to get my hands on the chronicles of these brave animorphs, and while I'm in the hospital right now with a leg infection, possibly arranged by the Yeerks, am eager, as soon as I get home (which may take another week or two) to continue sharing the stories of the Animorps, and I plan to keep doing it until the Yeerks stop me.
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 21:02 |
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"Leg infection"?... or "Brain infestation"? Nice try, Yeerk!
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 21:24 |
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nine-gear crow posted:"Leg infection"?... or "Brain infestation"? Nice try, Yeerk! I...I don't know what you mean. I'm a normal human like you. My hobbies include not being an autotroph, walking on human legs, enjoying vision and hearing, and spending time with other inferior lifeforms who don't have a destiny to conquer the galaxy.
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 21:34 |
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Amazing! This photographer took a picture of Controller's faces before and after telling them "I'm the Andalite bandit!"
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 22:14 |
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Epicurius posted:I...I don't know what you mean. I'm a normal human like you. My hobbies include not being an autotroph, walking on human legs, enjoying vision and hearing, and spending time with other inferior lifeforms who don't have a destiny to conquer the galaxy.
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 22:33 |
Because the Andalite flipped his Mustang trying to do some sick tricks and you shouldn't move a car crash victim
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 22:36 |
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Epicurius posted:
Sharing, huh?
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 04:45 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Visser Three didn't like what it said about him
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 09:34 |
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SardonicTyrant posted:You are walking across the desert when you see an andelite lying on its back. You could help the andelite by turning it right side up, but you don't. Why? Can... can an Andalite lay on its back? Like are they the right shape to do that?
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 10:24 |
With enough force *anything* can lie on its back
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 15:38 |
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I think that depends on how much their man-spine can bend forward so that it's in a line with their deer-spine. But with how weird Andalite physiology is already, I'm putting down an answer of "Okay sure???" until further notice.
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 15:41 |
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Agaragon posted:man-spine Don't buy into the propaganda. Andalites only have one spine.
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 15:55 |
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My only issue with this is that, IIRC, Ax mentioned humans having much stronger arms and/or fingers, but in the image the arms are basically around as big/muscular as human arms.
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 22:07 |
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Ytlaya posted:My only issue with this is that, IIRC, Ax mentioned humans having much stronger arms and/or fingers, but in the image the arms are basically around as big/muscular as human arms. Yeah, Ax looks like this.
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 22:23 |
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I mean even if we pretend the cover art doesn't exist, the books do mention him looking like a centaur.
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 22:32 |
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SirSamVimes posted:I mean even if we pretend the cover art doesn't exist, the books do mention him looking like a centaur. Wrong, Andalites have no torso as clearly stated in the original solid description of Ax, later claims/images of a torso are a lie.
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 00:55 |
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Andalite physiology aside, I'm back home, which means it's time for.... The Android-Chapter 3 quote:“He didn’t smell,” I said. Haircut barb. quote:I ignored them both. We had important business, and I was not going to lower myself to trading insults with Rachel. Besides, I couldn’t think of any. See, back in the old days, there were these things called phone books, which listed the addresses and phone numbers of people. I know, weird, right? quote:Cassie headed for the house to get a phone book. A 14 year old boy who showers a lot? Impossible! Chapter 4 quote:I saw Jake the following day in the school cafeteria. It's a mystery! (Please ignore the title of this book)
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 01:17 |
You know who Marco reminds me of? Mat Cauthon.
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 01:49 |
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Welcome back, glad you're feeling better!Epicurius posted:It's a mystery! (Please ignore the title of this book) To be fair, the names of the books can be so non-indicative that this wasn't necessarily a clue.
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 01:50 |
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quote:This food is blue. Food should not be blue. This is one of those lines that have stuck with me since I read and reread this book ages ago. I still think of it anytime I see blue food.
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 02:41 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:You know who Marco reminds me of? Mat Cauthon. I can see that
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 03:42 |
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I love the writing style of Marco's perspective.
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 04:15 |
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Epicurius posted:Andalite physiology aside, I'm back home, which means it's time for.... Fantastic news, I'm glad to hear it!
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I'm sorry. I'm back, but my schedule is still kind of off. So, here's a late two chapters. Book 10-The Android, Chapter 5 quote:There may be something in this world cooler than flying on your own wings, but I can’t imagine what it is. True. Could be trapped as an ant. quote:I felt a thermal, a pillar of warm air, billow up beneath my wings and I went for it. Zoom! Like riding an elevator to the top floor! Up and up. The warm air currents swept me higher and higher. Thermals! quote:Still, it did eventually require some hard wing-flapping to get to Erek’s neighborhood. Perfectly normal....hit by a bus. Turned into a weird steel/plastic thing. Chapter 6 quote:<We need to talk to Ax,> I said to Tobias. Anger can do that. I don't know if you've ever felt this sense of overwhelming rage. I have...not often. I think the only time was on 9/11. I lived in Northern Virginia at the time, and at this one moment, I just felt this sense of rage and pure and utter hatred. I don't think I ever felt it before or after. I'm not proud of it, but for a few minutes there, I just wanted the entire country of Afghanistan wiped out. I know it's not right. I know it's not rational (and knew it at the time), but at the moment, that's what I felt, and then it passed, and I was just completely and utterly exhausted. Weirdest thing. I've never felt that way since, and I hope I never do again.
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