1. I think far too much was missing, but I'll cover that later. It's a sad story, the loss of world, enslavement, battling evil across the galaxy. Nice they they touched on the Pemalites and Andalites. It's been a hard existance, no less because it's so long but once he Ascends, I can't pity him. He has power, and so he has much to do.
2. This is *** up right here. With the Ketrans fine, I won't want to play a game where you are always soft, but if that's entertainment, cool. With Father, well messed up but not his fault, and it just sucks because he trapped. Bad with Crayak. A whole galaxy of living creatures as pawns, and while it's Crayak's fault he had to play, I still think he treated it like a game, which is a little shameful. It should stop being a game then. His objectives in the last game as noble as could be, but I never understood Crayak's. Keterans want to play, Father was alone, but total destruction for total destruction? Really didn't get it.
3. Sentimental, interesting that the Andalites were first. I doubt his influence on them, but the reverse was so simple, so profound: more children, some live. It never would win him his game, but it was a worthwhile effort. It was just interesting to learn the Pemalites were his. Wonder if Erek knows. They were good connecting elements for the main story, if greatly abbreviated.
4. I think I'd guess Rachel, because she has the next book, but really, I'd have figured Tobias, because I consider them the most personal-Elfangor, the morphing thing, so most likely to call on him. But he came in first with Rachel, I guess it fits he goes out with her.
5. No words. Beyond love and glory and all the feelings and subtle words of man, I cannot express my longing for such power. The best way to understand him is as a gamer, with a bigger board, but that he got there from the mortal plane, that he remembers it, the experience is not mundane to him. That contrast, to have been pawn and master, must amp the event. I would play with universe. I know I bashed him for it a minute ago, but I would tinker. Watch for great periods all the miracles of the physical, and than shape and reshape them in ways this body cannot imagine. On my own or with another, I would be amored with such a state, and in sways from delicate to violent, shift the fates of stars.
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7. This may be the worst book in the series. Father and Crayak are there for a third or so of the book. 1-2 chapters with Andalites and pemalites. No real back info on Crayak's origin or details of what they've done since being reaching their highest states. So much undone, on by far the largest venue.
