Animorphs

So after that altermorphs 2 review...am I the only one who really wishes the kids morphed aliens more? Horks would be damn useful for both recon, deception, and because they have hands. Plus who doesn't want to be a huge lizard man?

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Horks also don't have any native aggressive tendencies like many earth animals, so they'll have to be in greater control. Also, horks are going to get noticed anywhere outside of the pool, things like Sparrows OTOH are going to get noticed a lot less, plus they'd be so small as to get virtually ignored in the pool.

edited 21st Jul '12 3:00:57 AM by MattII

On the other hand, the animals' aggressive tendencies is part of what allows them to fight so effectively without combat training, so it does have its payoff. Remember when Tobias finally got an Andalite morph? He couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with his tail.

Anywho, here's Megamorphs 4: Back to Before: [1]. After this, we are done with time travel plots. At least I think...

I draws things. And I seem to be some sort of marine entity.

But next week is a time travel book as well! And oddly one of my favorites.

Dystopian Cyberpunk Animorphs? Yes please. You know what that would actually be a damn good fanfic setting. Book 41 as a canon background, new cast, touch older maybe, one of the yeerk resistance on the team, damn I really like this. Great now I have even more things to work on..sigh.

You will never love a women as much as George Lucas hates his fans.

Which was kind of my point, Horks only work in very special circumstances (basically where the want to be decoys for real Horks), elsewise, there are more than enough species on earth that they can pick-and-chose.

Edit: A thought just occurred to me, WTF did the Yeerks go into the US first, wouldn't somewhere in Africa have been better based on the fact that they wouldn't have needed to cover up so much?

edited 24th Jul '12 2:45:42 PM by MattII

The Leerans and the Pyro things from book 26 would have been really useful though.

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Guess you haven't read Visser... America was picked by that was the country Edriss picked because it was the country some guy fighting a war thought was most powerful.

He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.

What war was that meant to be exactly? Given it occurred in the sixties I'm guessing Vietnam.

No I haven't read Visser, and picking the strongest country to pick on is usually a mistake.

Except Vietnam was already over by the time Loren and Chapman are abducted by the Skrit Na. According to wikipedia it's the Gulf War.

Visser was the last one I read, a few months ago actually, and I specifically remember it was the Gulf War.

Regarding MM 4, their victory was based on stuff like Cassie reappearing, so it's not how things really would have gone. Therefore their struggle wasn't pointless.

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Not when you plan to absorb that country.

Except that they're mostly after humans as hosts, so somewhere in Africa provides just as well in that respect, and is a lot easier to take over. Industry is less important, the Yeerks will have to lay down their own factories anyway, because trying to use modern ones will be like trying to use victorian factories in the modern-day, ie, it'd only work for the simplest stuff. Also, it's easier when you can just round up hosts with guns rather than having to trick them into getting infested.

edited 26th Jul '12 1:57:11 AM by MattII

...you should really read Visser. There are reasons why the Yeerks are doing things this way.

He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.

They don't make a lot of tactical sense for someone as sneaky as Visser One, though.

Let's face it, the only REAL reason the yeerks attacked America first is so that the book series can take place in America to appeal to American kids =P

Be not afraid...

The Yeerks generally do convert preexisting infrastructure rather than build there own. It's made pretty explicit in both of the Bad Future plots.

Speaking of which, here is Book 41: The Familiar: [1]

edited 28th Jul '12 8:20:39 AM by CountSpatula

I draws things. And I seem to be some sort of marine entity.

I do rather like this one....though I had forgotten that it ended with a simulation/dream....thing.

Oh well time to go write a dystopian/cyberpunk Animorphs fic that will drive Ifi up the wall!

You will never love a women as much as George Lucas hates his fans.

My theory is that the thing(s) in the end are just generic grey aliens that Applegate forgot to develop.

So, Skrit Na, then?

I draws things. And I seem to be some sort of marine entity.

Not exactly. While the Skrit Na are stereotypical grey aliens in some aspects I have a feeling these things are different. Do the Na ever portray the intelligence or technology to pull off something like this? Heck, do they actually seem like they'd care?

Honestly, you can never tell with those guys, but I don't think its them.

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Adam: You were saying?
Ifi: Fuck society.

Count, you are a cruel man.

edited 28th Jul '12 9:30:44 PM by Parable

I blame the One who is many. The One who is all.

He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.

Why do I get the feeling that is a A So Ia F reference?

You will never love a women as much as George Lucas hates his fans.

Nah, isn't that a reference to the ending?

Be not afraid...

I think so.

Which book is the one where Rachel's morph on the front cover is herself as Wolverine?