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Andalite-Bandit Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 11:20am Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread! - Date Edited: 1/5/06 12:03pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Andalite-Bandit
	I thought Rachels death was extremely sad, but it didn't seem necessary to me, so it annoyed me a bit. Jakes final strategy didn't make any sense. He could have send three or four auxillary Animorphs with Rachel and they would have been fine! I do however love the moment when the Visser realizes that the Animorphs are on the pool ship, and the moment when they storm into the control room and the Visser is standing there by the window, realizing at last that he has been beaten. -----signature----- "It's all the same fraking day, man." - Janis Joplin http://boards.theforce.net/your_jedi_council_community/b10008/29050206/p1/?0
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Twinky_Stryder Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 1/5/06 11:43am Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	Ah, some of the first sci-fi I got into was Animorphs (yes, even before I got into SW). I was the only one I knew who liked it. Grabbed one of the Megamorph books and worked my way from there. Never read all of them though. I liked Tobias as a character, and I liked the book where Jake had a Yerk inside him. Ah, memories. -----signature----- Ranger of FFUK I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me FFUK awards 2006 Best Female Poster What about the Twinky?- Ghostbusters
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Andalite-Bandit Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 11:47am Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	Tobias is the best Animorph! Hooray Tobias. -----signature----- "It's all the same fraking day, man." - Janis Joplin http://boards.theforce.net/your_jedi_council_community/b10008/29050206/p1/?0
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jedi_of_ennth Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 12:35pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	I love the Animorphs series, but it's been awhile since I've read it. Marco is my favorite. With Tobias a close second, of course, because his books were always so angsty-good. And the TV show? I was so excited when I first found out about it, but it was quite a disappointment. -----signature----- "I'm your friend. I love you." -- Zekk to Jaina, LotF: Fury
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Andalite-Bandit Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 12:39pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread! - Date Edited: 1/5/06 12:48pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Andalite-Bandit
	Another problem with the tv show is that a Nickoledian show meant for young kids can't really capture the intense battles of the book series, even though the books were for young adults too. I mean in the books, when they are in battle morphs and get into fights, they are biting and ripping people and aliens to shreds, and they suffer some pretty bad injuries too, getting cut by Hork Bajir blades, hit with dracon beams, and shot. I'm fairly certain I remember an instance or two when one of the Animorphs actually had their guts falling out. That's some graphic stuff. I remember a battle fairly early in the series in which Ax has his arm cut off, Marco is choking a Hork Bajir to death while trying to hold shut a hole that was kicked into his stomach, and the other Animorphs are unconscious. They are rescued by Erek the Chee, who kills all of the remaining yeerks. The only time a Chee fought. In Book 7, Rachel is so into the fight that she doesn't notice that one of her paws has been cut off until somebody tells her to look at it. There is an entire book about Tobias being captured and tortured. There's stuff like that all over the series. -----signature----- "It's all the same fraking day, man." - Janis Joplin http://boards.theforce.net/your_jedi_council_community/b10008/29050206/p1/?0
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Liesl Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 4:20pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	I didn't like how Rachel died. But I did know that a character wasn't going to survive - The Ellimist Chronicles came out a few months before #54 and the beginning and end of the book was of a dead Animorph talking to the Ellimist. Tobias was my favorite character, too. The Illusion - AKA, the tortured Tobias book - was my favorite. I've read it so many times that the cover and spine are falling apart. I never got to see the show since I didn't get satellite until the fall after it was cancelled. Even if it was bad, I still would have liked to have seen it. -----signature----- Proud Padawan of IrishEyedJedi Read at Your Own Risk: Fics in Profile "The white whale drank some bad plankton and splashed through a coffee table." - Heathers
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Andalite-Bandit Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 4:28pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	Something I'd been waiting for that I had always thought would be in the last book was an Ax vs. Visser duel. In the very first Ax book it was clear that by Andalite custom, Ax was supposed to avenge the death of his brother and kill Visser 3. Never happened! -----signature----- "It's all the same fraking day, man." - Janis Joplin http://boards.theforce.net/your_jedi_council_community/b10008/29050206/p1/?0
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Liesl Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 4:46pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	Yeah. In a way, he was able to avenge Elfangor's murder, but it wasn't in tradional Andalite fashion. The thing that got to me was towards the end of the series, the battles were more general than before - they didn't describe what was going on with the characters individually as much. It was more general like "they were fighting and winning" or "they were fighting and losing terribly." -----signature----- Proud Padawan of IrishEyedJedi Read at Your Own Risk: Fics in Profile "The white whale drank some bad plankton and splashed through a coffee table." - Heathers
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AzulSaber Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 8:54pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	Wow. Great thread. I loved the Animorphs and could not wait to go get the new books when they came out back when they were popular. I think Tobias was probably my favorite character, though I did actually enjoy Marco's jokes. They were corny yes, but they were always well-timed and lightened up the (sometimes very) dark mood of the books. I don't know how I feel about the ending still. Rachel going out bugged me, especially in the sense that Tobias lost the last tie to the human world. Also, Jake and Cassie never became a couple. I'll have to go off and reminisce some more, thanks for starting this up Andalite-Bandit! -----signature----- I have a bad feeling about this. Never tell me the odds. 30 Years of Geek Heaven. Celebration IV here I come!
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Liesl Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 9:48pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	AzulSaber posted: Wow. Great thread. I don't know how I feel about the ending still. Rachel going out bugged me, especially in the sense that Tobias lost the last tie to the human world. Also, Jake and Cassie never became a couple. That's kind of what I didn't like about the ending of the series, too. -----signature----- Proud Padawan of IrishEyedJedi Read at Your Own Risk: Fics in Profile "The white whale drank some bad plankton and splashed through a coffee table." - Heathers
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Andalite-Bandit Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 10:48pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	http://www.retrojunk.com/details_theme/284/ There's the intro to the tv show. -----signature----- "It's all the same fraking day, man." - Janis Joplin http://boards.theforce.net/your_jedi_council_community/b10008/29050206/p1/?0
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Liesl Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 1/5/06 11:42pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	Thanks. -----signature----- Proud Padawan of IrishEyedJedi Read at Your Own Risk: Fics in Profile "The white whale drank some bad plankton and splashed through a coffee table." - Heathers
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droideka27 Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 1/5/06 11:57pm Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread! - Date Edited: 1/6/06 12:11am (1 edits total) Edited By: droideka27
	I always thought the jake and cassie romance wasweird. The rachel tobias one started out pretty weird but grew into this really touching thing. I think in reality, rachel and tobias would have always had that special bond, but jake and cassie's would have stayed a dumb kidcrush and then ended with them just being friends. But eh. And i agree, there should have been an Axversus Visser1 duel. That could have been so cool, and Ax was a lot older and more battle trained. -----signature----- "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" -- Qui-Gon
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Twinky_Stryder Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 1/6/06 10:38am Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	Whatever happened to Marco's mum in the end? I remember that she had a Visser in her, didn't she? Also, what happens to Tobias? Sorry, I kinda never managed to finish reading the series. -----signature----- Ranger of FFUK I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me FFUK awards 2006 Best Female Poster What about the Twinky?- Ghostbusters
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Andalite-Bandit Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 1/6/06 10:41am Subject: RE: The Animorphs Thread!
	Marco's mother is rescued and she helps the Animorphs plan their final assault. Tobias is very sad about Rachel's death in the last book and he flies away and doesn't have any contact with the other Animorphs for several years, until he learns that Ax needs their help. -----signature----- "It's all the same fraking day, man." - Janis Joplin http://boards.theforce.net/your_jedi_council_community/b10008/29050206/p1/?0
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