Could be Animal Man with less meta (or around the same, given the narration style), or Beast Boy with more cycism.
Well, he did think his mom was DEEEEAAAAAAD, and he tried to go beat up some muggers in book 5.
I draws things. And I seem to be some sort of marine entity.Hurray, the review of Book 5: The Predator (not that Predator) is up! [1]
I've provided some further evidence that Marco does, in fact, think that he's Batman.
edited 17th Sep '11 8:26:20 AM by CountSpatula
I draws things. And I seem to be some sort of marine entity.And now here is the Book 6: The Capture review: [1]
We bring up something I always thought was something of a hole in logic in the series. Just why exactly did the characters never kidnap Tom and stick him in a cabin for three days or something? They could have done that at any time, but otherwise they wouldn't have a consistent source of angst for Jake.
Oh, also, Michael Grant mentioned us on twitter, which caused me to bounce up and down with glee like a crazy person.
I draws things. And I seem to be some sort of marine entity.Ah, sorry for not specifying. I meant us, as in the two of us who are working on the blog.
I draws things. And I seem to be some sort of marine entity.^^^ Because the Yeerks would just reinfect him, then find out everyone's identity if they couldn't somehow guess Jake already, and kill or enslave them.
By the way, what book is The Drode from? I think it's one of the ones I missed.
edited 24th Sep '11 10:13:34 AM by storyyeller
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI think the animorphs were worried that they wouldn't be able to keep Tom's location secret that long, given his yeerk's status. That excuse went completely out the window when they kidnapped Chapman, of course. (They had Tom, away from any controllers, in the middle of nowhere with no yeerk pool! It was the PERFECT time to free him!) Besides, they did a lot of far more insanely stupid things than that.
What would've been even better (although quite dangerous) would've been to enlist the help of the yeerk rebels. Send one of the Chee down to the pool impersonating Tom and starve Tom's yeerk out without anyone noticing, then replace it with a rebel yeerk as a spy. Tom's a fighter, he totally would've gone for it, especially since the only other options would be to disappear forever or be recaptured immediately, probably endangering his family. It's established that yeerks aren't very chatty in their natural state, so Tom's memories should be sufficient for the spy yeerk to impersonate Tom's normal yeerk.
It would have been awesome. He probably would've had access to all sorts of information that the chee didn't.
I don't think Aftran's host was all that high-status, and she seemed smart enough to shut up about it. Easier to lose in beurocratic red tape than someone as close to visser 3 as Tom.
It was a hell of a security risk, though. If the yeerks needed to lean on that millionaire they'd find her and know about the animorphs. (But then the fact they weren't caught in the first few books suggests that their enemies are total morons.)
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Then again, Tom's original yeerk goes missing and then completely falls off the grid in book 6, and all they do is give him a new yeerk and otherwise noone in the yeerk hierarchy seems to bat an eye at the situation. You'd think that they would have sent out a search party or something at least.
A whole tubful of yeerks was boiled alive by a budding sociopath in book 6. The Empire presumably knew what yeerks were in there (including Tom's old yeerk), so probably didn't bother identifying the 100 or so actual bodies. It's not like they had any reason to suspect an Andalite bandit would do something stupid like get himself possessed entirely by accident, with no force or trickery on behalf of the Empire.
edited 25th Sep '11 11:59:20 PM by Nndaia
^^^ Yeah, the Animorphs main advantage is Visser 3's stupidity and arrogance. It should have ended much sooner.
edited 26th Sep '11 5:38:58 AM by storyyeller
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayHey Spatula, when's the next review going up? I am starved for lols!
On an unrelated topic: Helmacrons. Visser 3 and Cassie should have really giant anteater morphs now. Obviously they'd be crushed under their own pressure if they used the morph but I'm kind of surprised they never even tried. I really wanted to see Visser 3 do that.
The new reviews come out once a week on Saturdays, so it'll be up in a few days. To tide you over until then, here's a brief Let's Play of the Animorphs GBC game: [1]
And the leader of the Yeerk rebellion decided to become a whale nothlit and go live with the Jesus Whale or something. They don't really elaborate that much as to what happens to the rest of the rebellion, though it is implied that they are also given the option of becoming nothlits.
I draws things. And I seem to be some sort of marine entity.To be fair, her choices were "leave them in the lurch" or "get tortured by Visser Three until she gave up all their names and got them all killed."
Basically, the Yeerk Rebellion got exactly what they wanted out of the post-war Yeerk regime - but they made pretty much no contribution to the war effort (the Chee pretty much had the espionage angle covered).
We don't know that. The rebel yeerks had hardly any communications with the animorphs. (We can probably assume, for security reasons, that they weren't told who the animorphs were, except Tidwell/Illim for an emergency situation.) They were probably sabotaging efforts and spreading their own propoganda in the background. The yeerks surrendered to what was essentially nonviolent genocide after the loss of a single pool ship and the threat of an invader already surrounding their home planet; I doubt it would've been that easy without the rebels counteracting militaristic propoganda and changing public opinion.
Hm... It never really bothered zerky before, or maybe she didn't think about it enough, but if Aftran is female...
If yeerks use three individuals to reproduce sexually, are they all asexual? Are there three individual sexes? Is there some weird situation going on involving buckets and vestigial genitals?
Yeerks are often referred to in English using gendered pronouns, which might possibly support the notion of separate sexes. However, zerky noticed that (unless she missed something) all the named yeerks have been the same gender as their hosts. Visser One/Three/Esplin 9466 is male, Edriss 562/Marco's mom is female, Temrash 114/Jake/Tom's first yeerk is male, Karen/Aftran is female, etcetera. There haven't been any references to a third yeerk gender either. All named yeerks are either male, female or unknown* .
The relationship between yeerk and host gender lends itself to the theory that yeerks don't have physical sexes, but take on the gender of their hosts for convenience. Yeerks might even be taking on hosts of the same sex as them just because it's more comfortable or, alternatively, humans might just be projecting genders onto yeerks so that they don't have to use the pronoun "it".
I always figured that Yeerks themselves don't really have a sex, and thant any three Yeerks can combine in order to reproduce. A Yeerk's gendered pronouns would therefore usually be the same as their host's, though if they'd been a particular gender for a long enough time, they might start thinking of themselves that way (for example, Visser One had a string of female hosts, and everyone considers her to be female). But that's just my opinion.
I think zerky and ghandalf are right; yeerks use their host's gender for convenience. We're reading the series in english (or another human language translated from English), and much yeerk communication in the series is also in English, which gets clumsy without gender.
I'd guess that yeerks themselves only have one sex and probably also one gender. Triune mating would be a hard enough trick ro pull of without those sorts of compications, and since they don't practice any sort of childcare and have no need for sex specialisation int heir society, a single sex would the the easiest way to go about it.
edited 29th Sep '11 1:55:13 AM by Nndaia

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