1. I know we did square dancing, but I don't remember it. (Repressed?) I picture them still in middle school at this point, and they seemed a little advanced in pop culture from what I remember, but I was-am-odd on that stuff anyway. Normal live is greatly down played, but what's there is all in all on par with the general experience.
2. Weird. A hole in the fabric of space time, okay, but I just don't get how it lends you to being two places at once, or how it repairs itself. Seems to me if space time is fabric it should be more of a fold but, idk. Physics :-p
3. With the truck ship it was a good idea. With Ax, the Chee, known Controllers, all this other stuff, it's meaningless effort.
4. I've now spent some time walking through tropical forest, though not the Amazon, and I heard Rachel's comments more than once. Forest is foul and violent if you aren't equipped, and lucky. So for that I give her high points on accuracy, and breaking the myth of it's all wonderful. I also like her comments on the grandeur of it too. I'm not so sure it's as frequent (wasn't in the places I've been) but when you find something good, well the contrast makes it all the more magnificent.
5. The only bad choice he made was walking up to the fighters at the end. Considering he was being schooled in time travel at the time, the other mistakes weren't something he could have avoided in advance. I've said before, Jake is at his best when he doesn't doubt himself, but he did that way to much here. Not without reason, but it became an impediment here, so clearly too much
6. For them, for me, for the world, luck can not be undersold. Never depend on it, but man, I've so much luck for stuff that I'd never depend on it for it's stupid. And so did the Animorphs. I thinks it's a very real thing, and though you can't trust it, be thankful when you get it, and use it well
7. Re: "Maybe all the stages of evolution are still a part of us" I would have called b.s., but recapitulation was brought up, and that took me back to anatomy. Discredited or not, I don't think recapitulation applies here. I think what Cassie brought up depends more on the evolution of the vertebrate-specially primate-brain. Anatomically each "stage" of evolution modifies the prior, altering, conserving or removing what is already there. It's why though the brain of sheep and a dogfish are radically different, they are in many ways structurally and functionally comparable: e.g. knowing the layout of one gives you great advantage in learning the other. So assuming the human brain is what it should be, derived and built upon the ancestral primate brain the statement, literally, is not without merit. The idea that we remember and recall those changes in the recesses of either memory or instinct, that I'm less inclined to believe. I've no proof certainly, but I think that as the body moves away from that type of locomotion, I would expect the cognitive processes that went with it would also have subsided: that is a person can't move through tree's like monkey, and I doubt they have any part of their brain that would think like it could.
1. Regarding the monkey morph itself. Seems like having a tail would be cool XD
8. I've played leader before. Leader of Earth's last hope? No. Not unless I was going it alone. IRL I'm fairly diplomatic, but not afraid of yelling. I think I'd be to willing to take massive losses in this fight though. The decision making, well I'd tally that to do it or don't. Hopefully stay too busy to contemplate the consequence of either.
