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Tree Bucket posted:If only Elfangor had crashed in Geelong or Newcastle or something. Try and save the world with an emu morph! Go on, try!!
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Starsnostars posted:If the Ellimist had been a species closer in technology to the Yeerks and and had said that they could get a few people out on a refugee ship or something then fair enough. Coming in and saying that they can only save a few while being all powerful and having found a whole planet for Earth species to live on leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I remember nothing about this book, so my guess is that it may not have been a sincere offer. I'm thinking it was a test to see if the Animorphs were committed to fighting for Earth and thus worthy of his help.
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fauna posted:the kandrona pool is contaminated with meth, the world is saved I'm sorry, Visser, we began construction of the Yeerk pool, but it got bought out by real estate developers who are all cousins of council members and now it is a vibrant, contemporary mixed retail and residential space owned by one dude who rents the whole thing out through airbnb. The invasion is cancelled.
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We should really keep a running total of how many hands/arms Ax chops off. It's got to be at least once per book.Cythereal posted:I remember nothing about this book, so my guess is that it may not have been a sincere offer. I'm thinking it was a test to see if the Animorphs were committed to fighting for Earth and thus worthy of his help. Pretty sure it was to show the gang the dropshaft so they could escape. Space God had to have known they wouldn't take the offer.
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Tree Bucket posted:I'm sorry, Visser, we began construction of the Yeerk pool, but it got bought out by real estate developers who are all cousins of council members and now it is a vibrant, contemporary mixed retail and residential space owned by one dude who rents the whole thing out through airbnb. The invasion is cancelled. newy 
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Epicurius posted:"Whumpf!" There is a zero percent chance this dude doesn't know at least one of the "Andalite bandits" is a human.
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Skelicopter posted:Maybe Rachel just loving murdered all witnesses. Do we know yeerks die if their host dies when they're hooked in, or is there a period they can still slither out the ear if the head is undamaged?
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Piell posted:There is a zero percent chance this dude doesn't know at least one of the "Andalite bandits" is a human. "Visser, Visser, I saw the one that turned into a bear, and she's—" <Did you kill it?> "No, no, but listen, it's—" *decapitated* <Anyone else care to volunteer information about how they failed to kill the Andalite bandits?>
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You know, grizzly bears knowing neither fear nor regret explains a lot about why it's Rachel's favorite battle morph. I get the feeling elephants are too emotionally introspective for her to lose herself in the same way.
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PetraCore posted:Let's be real, any possible survivors are only going to remember the bear carnage. Any yeerk not shanked by her is too busy muttering 'bear bear bear' to correct Visser 3. There is a very limited window for them to abandon ship, but usually they have to do so under combat conditions, so their chances of survival and recovery are slim.
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I mean, if you didn't die from blood-loss from losing a hand, and didn't get horrifically mauled by an enraged grizzly bear, you are still surrounded by taxxons that go absolutely nuts at the smell of blood and devour anything in their vicinity...
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Bobulus posted:I mean, if you didn't die from blood-loss from losing a hand, and didn't get horrifically mauled by an enraged grizzly bear, you are still surrounded by taxxons that go absolutely nuts at the smell of blood and devour anything in their vicinity...
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I'm also imagining that Yeerks don't have great mobility on dry land, so good luck evacuating from a host who's not already in the water.
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wizzardstaff posted:I'm also imagining that Yeerks don't have great mobility on dry land, so good luck evacuating from a host who's not already in the water. Yeerk: Oh, poo poo, there goes the hand. gently caress this, I'm out of this fight, time to run. Volunteer host: Yeah, this is not what I signed up for. Thanks for dulling the pain, though. Is there a medical services building around here? This is going to be hell to explain to my human boss... Yeerk: Yeah, uh, about that. I don't... I don't think you're going to survive this. And since there's no reason both of us have to die... Volunteer host: Wait, why are you steering towards the pool? You motherfucker, why are you steering towards the pool?!?
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Bobulus posted:Yeerk: Oh, poo poo, there goes the hand. gently caress this, I'm out of this fight, time to run. Joke’s on that dumb Yeerk when the freed host reaches into the pool, scoops up the Yeerk and pulls it apart like a Christmas cracker with the last of their strength 
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Not being too into the sci-fi staples, The Ellimist stuff was my first encounter with accessibly cosmic horror-esque beings outside of physicality at all. It might not have been necessary for a series that could deliver on the simplest aspects of its premise but not only did it fire up my childhood imaginationg it allowed opportunities for different kinds of existential dillemmas to watch the characters work through. Just wish the endgame has been suitably grandiose or at least well-delivered
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nine-gear crow posted:Joke’s on that dumb Yeerk when the freed host reaches into the pool, scoops up the Yeerk and pulls it apart like a Christmas cracker with the last of their strength
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The Stranger-Chapter 13quote:I didn't wake up till the next morning when my alarm went off. I was groggy, barely able to read the numbers on my clock. So, I think this is the first time in the books we've seen someone seriously stressed out....so stressed out that I'm actually physically worried about them. quote:I stood there, just staring at the cupboards. So, it's really not just Rachel, even though she has the stress about her dad. They're all basically exhausted by this entire thing. quote:"What are you going to do?" Cassie asked. And now he's back. The Stranger-Chapter 14 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND. In an instant, we were gone from the barn. The five of us and Ax stood side by side in the middle of an empty field of scruffy, unkempt grass. There was a long, low, tumbledown building a hundred yards away. The Ellimist was nowhere to be seen. We were the only people around: five humans and one Andalite. Five real humans. "Tobias!" I said. "Yeah," he said, looking down at his hands. "This routine again." Jake looked angry. Cassie marveled. Marco tried to smirk nonchalantly, but wasn't succeeding. No one looked tired anymore. Ax skittered nervously on his dainty hooves and stretched his tail, as if preparing to use it. "The Ellimist again," I said. "Did you guys hear - " "Yeah, we heard," Jake said. "So we get another chance to change our minds." "Where are we?" Cassie wondered. "I mean, something about this looks familiar. But I can't quite place it." I had the same feeling. Like this empty, dusty, blasted landscape was familiar. It was Tobias who saw it first. "The school," he said. "What?" I said. "No way." But he was right. I looked again and realized that I knew each of those tumbled-down, destroyed buildings. "Okay, I don't like this," Marco said. "I don't even halfway like this. I mean, normally I'm all for seeing the school blown up, but I really don't like this." "When did this happen?" I wondered aloud. "I skip one day and the place burns down?" "I don't think so," Cassie said in a strange, distracted voice. "I don't think this is something that's happened, past tense. I think we're talking future tense." "Or just tense," Marco muttered. I looked over at Cassie, wondering what she was talking about. She was staring intently up at the sky overhead. Then off toward the horizon. "The sky," she said. "Have you ever seen it that color before?" "It does seem slightly yellowish," Jake said. "And the air. Doesn't it smell funny? And look, over there. The trees over behind the gym. They're dying." "The Ellimist said he would show us something," I muttered. "So what's he showing us? Ax? You understand any of this?" <There is a time distortion. I sense it. But I don't know what it means. > "It's the future," Cassie said. A chill crawled up my spine. I wanted to think Cassie was losing it. But I sensed the truth of what she said. "Okaaaaay," Marco said. "So, what are we supposed to do now? Stand around here until the Ellimist comes back for us?" Jake shrugged. "I guess we look around. The mall's just a quarter mile or so. It should be open."[/quote] It's the future, the sky is yellow, the school is destroyed, and Jake figures "Lets go to the mall." quote:So we walked. Across the scruffy field. Beneath a sky that seemed to add yellow to blue and make patches and wisps of green, unlike any sky I had ever seen. We passed the school and I looked morbidly through the blast holes to see if we could recognize anything. Marco has seen Back to the Future Part II quote:I forced a laugh that came out like a grunt. Ax, no doubt tired of Marco making fun of him for saying 'Your minutes', clearly planned that ahead of time. quote:"Some kind of very high-speed train system," Jake said. "That's why no one is on the highway." Ax still has faith in his people. quote:He began to slowly melt into human shape. The future, everybody!
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Yeah, this whole chapter is making me think the Ellimist really doesn't want them to take the deal at all, and in fact used the last time-stop to show them the exit without breaking some kind of "rules" that may or may not exist for its time powers thing.
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Homora Gaykemi posted:that's a more optimistic future for malls than reality Turned into affordable multi-unit housing?
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Epicurius posted:
One of my favorite lines in the whole series. In the midst of all the serious poo poo going down, it's just nice to see a middle-school girl throw some middle-school attitude as a way of saying, "why are you asking me questions you already know the answer to? I have two parents driving me insane, I don't need a third." Epicurius posted:
And this is, IMO, one of the turning points of the series. It's not the first time Marco has pointed out that they're not winning and nothing is getting better. It's not the first time anyone has pointed out that Rachel is already past the point they're comfortable with and if she can't handle it, what hope do the rest of them have? But it is the first time they seem to have another valid path to take, and Marco is, very reasonably, pointing out that if there's an option that isn't "five teenagers and a stranded alien teenager fight and kill and suffer in a losing guerrilla effort," the right thing to do is probably to take it. But Marco, of course, probably has something in mind Rachel doesn't know about : if the Ellimist is saving their families, is this Marco's path to rescuing his mother? Homora Gaykemi posted:that's a more optimistic future for malls than reality Yeah, seriously, a mall where the Sears sign is still up? What a world.
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Epicurius posted:Turned into affordable multi-unit housing? with a communal foodbank on the roof!
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and easy access to public transit!
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I don't remember if this was the first post-apocalypse I read, but it sure stuck with me. Christ, it's bleak.
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So the Ellimist is essentially the G-man. "Rather than give you the illusion of free choice I have taken the liberty of choosing for you"
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Sentinel posted:So the Ellimist is essentially the G-man.
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i just had a sudden flashback to being ten years old and having a playground "battle" with my friend in which he was goku and i was a garatron. i refused to be hit by his energy beams because i was too fast; he argued that the blasts were so large i couldn't possibly outrun them. things got very heated. as an adult i am forced to admit he was probably right, but the real issue is that goku is so overpowered that representing him in a battle where the other kids were animorphs aliens and pokemon was really against the unspoken law of the playground
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I'dve just said " well im in a loving gundam!" I hated/couldve given less of a poo poo about dbz as a kid. I was a gundam wing for lifer. And for all the war crime discussion im a little late to keep in mind it's only a war crime if you lose. The victors write the history books. Therefore I'm of the opinion of: "THE INVADERS MUST DIE!" https://youtu.be/EiqFcc_l_Kk Purge the Yeerk Xenos!
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our school had just had a bomb threat the week before (this often happened) so we were all feeling insecure
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fauna posted:our school had just had a bomb threat the week before (this often happened) so we were all feeling insecure We had multiple bogus bomb scares around 1999-2000 stretch in school. I blame it on columbine.
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to complete the mental image, i was a pudgy child with braces and a jewfro. the battle was me lumbering around making zooming noises with my mouth while my so-called friend yelled KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAA and did explosion sounds we both ended up in tears
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Sentinel posted:We had multiple bogus bomb scares around 1999-2000 stretch in school. I blame it on columbine. forgive me, this post has little to do with animorphs, but it does add context re: 90s kid life fauna fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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fauna posted:to complete the mental image, i was a pudgy child with braces and a jewfro. the battle was me lumbering around making zooming noises with my mouth while my so-called friend yelled KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAA and did explosion sounds I reckon this could apply to virtually anyone with an account on the somthingawful.com forums
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My fondest memory of Dragon Ball Z was going over to my friend's house after school in the winter and going "Why the hell are they still on Namek?" Then going over to my friend's house after school in the summer and going "Why the hell are they still on Namek?"
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i wasn't able to fully participate in dbz culture because my mum didn't let me watch cartoons, which may have accounted for some of my anti-goku ideology
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to return to the actual topic of the thread... the books didn't hit my hometown library until they were well into the series and then we got them all at once. so the first one i read was the andalite chronicles, then started on the main series. which was a fantastic way to do things, because it meant i was already really attached to elfangor, and then
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