Animorphs

Can the police ticket you for morphing under the influence?

Maybe post-series. I imagine that it would only apply to dangerous animals though.

Given how much weird shit can happen with morphing under unusual physiological circumstances, I'd be more concerned with whether or not morphing under the influence will f*ck you over in some way.

Maybe morphing itself would be impaired? Like, you wouldn't be able to focus enough to finish morphing into any one thing?

edited 3rd Feb '16 11:23:05 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

Or you might get bizarre and unwieldy hybrid forms like that time Marco started fusion-morphing out of stress.

That's Fanon Discontinuity for me.

That was the time he was panicking and was like a spider and a crow at the same time, right?

Was that the book where they introduced Eric?

No, that was much later.

We met Erek in book 10. This was...I want to say 40?

EDIT: 35. I was close.

edited 3rd Feb '16 11:32:21 AM by TobiasDrake

Ohhhh!

Man, the Chee were basically invincible.

The Chee were awesome. THAT is how you incorporate a contest winner!

Yeah. And the Yeerks never found out they were even a thing. To the end of the series, the Chee were still a tightly-kept secret.

It's one of the reasons I kinda feel bad for the Yeerk side of things. Not only are they dealing with the exact same "The enemy could be anywhere," issues that the Animorphs are, but they also have to deal with things that simply cannot happen.

When Marco's identity is discovered in 45 and he and his dad have to make a run for it, they bring in Erek and his father to pretend to be Marco and be killed by the Yeerks. Marco continues being an active Animorph after this. The gorilla continues showing up to combat zones.

From that point forward, the Yeerks know he's dead. They know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they killed him. They killed him and vaporized him and he's gone. He cannot continue to exist. And yet, he keeps showing up. Try explaining that to Visser Three.

You probably don't unless he specifically asks for that information. Don't tell the bad boss news he doesn't want to hear, as the adage goes. The only thing keeping him from going full Stalin is that he still has his own bosses to report to. You can only lob off so many heads before you run out of bodies and the Council of Thirteen decides you'll make a good substitute. They can always make more vissers, but those lackeys cost money to arm, train, and supply.

Didn't Tom find out about the Chee at some point?

@Morphing while on drugs: I imagine most drugs would fuck with your mind enough that you can't morph. Alternatively morphing would somehow purge it from your system.

The Chee also got Rachel killed, but I guess Jake is mostly to blame for that.

edited 9th Feb '16 12:01:15 PM by ElementX

I THOUGHT WE HAD AGREED TO NOT TALK ABOUT THE EVERYTHING-GOES-TO-SHIT ARC

It... moved a little fast but I think it was a fitting end to the series.

So did I.

Ending the series on book 54, however, gives me cancer.

How come?

One book away from a number divisible by five and the same number in the ones and tens place.

Oh, killing Rachel I didn't mind. It was a series about war, and a big death was needed to show that war affects everyone. The auxiliary animorphs death also made sense to me because sometimes you lose a lot of people. But the ambiguous ending bothers me. I mean, we never get to know what happened after the rammed the ship!!!

Also, do i need to put spoilers if the book has been out for over a decade? I did some for safety but i dunno if they were needed.

I found the Bolivian Army Ending very fitting. It serviced the war theme well with a point that even war movies often leave out: even among those that make it out alive, many soldiers don't really get to go home. They just move on to the next war. There's always a next war.

edited 9th Feb '16 2:43:08 PM by TobiasDrake

Still dislike the ending after all this time. Never found it fitting even with Applegate's explanation at the end. Heck, Remnant, her other kid series, had a better ending and that took place after the world ended like twice.

edited 9th Feb '16 4:07:03 PM by Parable

I completely forgot Remnant existed.

It could hardly be called a 'next war' though, as it's pretty much made clear The One, whatever it is, is more or less the god of the Yeerks, and was backing them the whole time. So the moral of the story isn't really that there's a next war, it's that Satan was behind the bad guys the whole time. If the Yeerks had been defeated, and Crayak had stepped in to take their place as an actual 'next war', it would have made more sense, to me at least.