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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #720 on: July 12, 2010, 07:00:45 PM »
I was reading the entry for silicon based lifeforms at TV tropes. It mentions that the Venber in Animorphs may be made of ammonia, because it's speculated that ammonia based lifeforms could exist on extremely cold planets.


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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #721 on: July 13, 2010, 04:08:01 PM »
Eh, maybe, but unlikely if you ask me. They had to reach a temperature above the freezing point of water to melt, right? Ammonia boils around 28 below zero Fahrenheit, so the Venber would probably have to exist in temperatures well below that. Getting that kind of temperature consistently is a stretch, even in the arctic, and if it was that cold, the Animorphs wouldn't have been anywhere near as well off in their morphing outfits, even for the short periods of time that they were in them. That, alone, leads me to believe that any liquid on which their form is based would probably have to have a boiling point over the melting point of water. It sounds as though at least part of their structure would have to be based on water ice, though.

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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #722 on: July 13, 2010, 07:18:08 PM »
Tvtropes is often not a good source to get an encyclopedic report on what's really in the story, or anything impartial if the work has any kind of fan(boys/girls), and that's not even mentioning their reading sex (especially homosexuality) into everything.
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #723 on: July 13, 2010, 11:00:33 PM »
In the movie Accepted one of the people on the collegiate review board is named "Dr. A. Visser"

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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #724 on: July 14, 2010, 12:07:27 AM »
My copy of #30 has two...inside illustration things...



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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #725 on: July 14, 2010, 09:13:46 AM »
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #726 on: July 14, 2010, 09:21:40 AM »
Tvtropes is often not a good source to get an encyclopedic report on what's really in the story, or anything impartial if the work has any kind of fan(boys/girls), and that's not even mentioning their reading sex (especially homosexuality) into everything.

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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #727 on: July 14, 2010, 09:35:15 AM »
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #728 on: July 14, 2010, 02:23:30 PM »
I find it oddly fitting that it's the roach one that has a backup ready ::)
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #729 on: July 14, 2010, 02:38:10 PM »
that made me laugh. Yeah, there's never just one roach in the house.


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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #730 on: July 15, 2010, 11:22:13 AM »
on the thought of the reprints, they mentioned they have someone combing for outdated references,
I really hope someone's gonna clean up the KASU's this time- pick a rule for thought speak and stick with it
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #731 on: July 15, 2010, 04:14:52 PM »
on the thought of the reprints, they mentioned they have someone combing for outdated references,
I really hope someone's gonna clean up the KASU's this time- pick a rule for thought speak and stick with it

I'm also interested in what degree of editing will be done on the reprints, and how much changing is going to be involved to clear up KASUs or if they will be preserved. What thought-speak rule contradictions are you referring to?
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #732 on: July 15, 2010, 05:27:47 PM »
well there is the later switching between being incapable or capable of using it in human morph, notably in Ax, but I'm thinking specifically since we know they're doing book 1 Jake being able to send thoughts to someone in morph even when not morphed himself. Want that gone
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Re: Totally Random Animorphs Thoughts
« Reply #733 on: July 16, 2010, 02:54:31 PM »
well there is the later switching between being incapable or capable of using it in human morph, notably in Ax, but I'm thinking specifically since we know they're doing book 1 Jake being able to send thoughts to someone in morph even when not morphed himself. Want that gone
OK, fair enough. I'm not so interested in the way that they treat the obvious stuff like ret-conned canon (the things that functioned one way, but then were later decided to function another way), but more in how closely they examine and change the material that simply doesn't make sense within its own accepted canon and needs tweaking to actually function. Thought-speak has examples of both types of KASU, yours being more the type that were originally one way then ret-conned later (although I don't thing that there was ever an instance of being explicitly incapable of using  thought-speech in human morph, it was simply never done for a while, then when it was done they behaved as if it had always been possible, which it logically should have; on the other hand, your primary example of being able to send thought-messages to someone in morph, then later ret-conning it out is the best and most obvious example of that type of KASU).
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