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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Kitulean on September 21, 2008, 06:37:40 AM
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What are your most unforgettable moments in the books? For me, the single most unforgettable moment in the entire series was the following line in book 22:
I saw it drop from out of nowhere. Out of the sky. Out of the clouds it dropped. Wings back, talons raked forward. It hit David in the back of his head! Eagle feathers flew. David screamed in pain. And Tobias - yes, Tobias - said in private thought-speak, <Rachel, David is really getting to be a pain in the butt.>
Because of everything that happened before, with Tobias thought to be dead, and everyone else down and out, that was one of the very few times in the books I remember literally going "YES!!" outloud, because it was just an awesome moment.
Another most memorable moment I recall of course is Tobias initially being trapped, as well as at the end of book 13 when he greets Rachel in his newfound human morph.
Come to think of it, an awful lot of the series most memorable moments involve Tobias.
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I agree with those..very nice moments :)
I also liked the part in the Andalite Chronicles (Elfangors Secret - I think that's what it's called?) when the Ellimist takes Elfangor away, and he discovers Loren is pregant. I think that's so sad!
Also, when Cassie and Jake finally kiss, and when they're talking about getting married (then it all turns to crap when they don't end up together!! that sucked). So now when I re-read the series, and read over the lovey-dovey parts, it sucks coz I know they're not gonna be together... :(
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What are your most unforgettable moments in the books? For me, the single most unforgettable moment in the entire series was the following line in book 22:
I saw it drop from out of nowhere. Out of the sky. Out of the clouds it dropped. Wings back, talons raked forward. It hit David in the back of his head! Eagle feathers flew. David screamed in pain. And Tobias - yes, Tobias - said in private thought-speak, <Rachel, David is really getting to be a pain in the butt.>
Because of everything that happened before, with Tobias thought to be dead, and everyone else down and out, that was one of the very few times in the books I remember literally going "YES!!" outloud, because it was just an awesome moment.
Oh, like you didn't see that coming. :P
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What are your most unforgettable moments in the books? For me, the single most unforgettable moment in the entire series was the following line in book 22:
I saw it drop from out of nowhere. Out of the sky. Out of the clouds it dropped. Wings back, talons raked forward. It hit David in the back of his head! Eagle feathers flew. David screamed in pain. And Tobias - yes, Tobias - said in private thought-speak, <Rachel, David is really getting to be a pain in the butt.>
Because of everything that happened before, with Tobias thought to be dead, and everyone else down and out, that was one of the very few times in the books I remember literally going "YES!!" outloud, because it was just an awesome moment.
Oh, like you didn't see that coming. :P
what? I wouldn't have seen it coming had I not read later books first.
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The end of #30 when Marco breaks his silence for his mother. It hit me deep. I just loved all the emotion that went into that one scene!
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No, I forgot my most memorable moments.
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22 "<For you, Tobias.> And I led David towards his doom
That and the lion vs tiger scene in 21.
Those to in particular always pop out in my mind
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What are your most unforgettable moments in the books? For me, the single most unforgettable moment in the entire series was the following line in book 22:
I saw it drop from out of nowhere. Out of the sky. Out of the clouds it dropped. Wings back, talons raked forward. It hit David in the back of his head! Eagle feathers flew. David screamed in pain. And Tobias - yes, Tobias - said in private thought-speak, <Rachel, David is really getting to be a pain in the butt.>
Because of everything that happened before, with Tobias thought to be dead, and everyone else down and out, that was one of the very few times in the books I remember literally going "YES!!" outloud, because it was just an awesome moment.
Oh, like you didn't see that coming. :P
Something can be memorable, even if you see it coming. And I only half saw it, as in I hoped it would happen and that he wasn't really dead. But as proven at the end of the series, with KA you never know.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. :) I was half joking. It was a cool moment, if a bit of a deus-ex machina. "Rachel's gonna diiiiee..." - "Oh wait, here comes Tobias to SAVE THE DAAAYYY!" *sings* But it was a real fist-pumping and cheering moment, whooo, Tobias! Very awesome.
For me it was probably another David Saga moment, Rachel with the fork. And in the final arc of the series when Jake blackmails Erek before the Pool Ship assault. Very defining moments. And so great.
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The end of #48 when Rachel has to choose whether to let David live or die. I think the passage really wraps up Rachels persona at this point of the war nicely:
<Kill me, Rachel! If there's any humanity left in you at all, please kill me!>
"I'm one of the good guys." I choked, tears welling up in my eyes.
<Then do the good thing!>
[...]
I caught a glimpse of myself in a broken shard of mirror.
And saw what anyone looking down the alleyway from the sidewalk would have seen.
A young girl sitting knees-up in the sun, staring at a white rat.
It would be hard to believe the entire fate of the planet depended on that girl.
A girl who wanted to do the right thing.
But who had no idea at all what that was...
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Oh yeah, that was a great moment. Even if the book itself, while still good, was a little... ummm... what's the word... insane? I seem to remember reading the whole thing going O_o
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The end of #48 when Rachel has to choose whether to let David live or die. I think the passage really wraps up Rachels persona at this point of the war nicely:
<Kill me, Rachel! If there's any humanity left in you at all, please kill me!>
"I'm one of the good guys." I choked, tears welling up in my eyes.
<Then do the good thing!>
[...]
I caught a glimpse of myself in a broken shard of mirror.
And saw what anyone looking down the alleyway from the sidewalk would have seen.
A young girl sitting knees-up in the sun, staring at a white rat.
It would be hard to believe the entire fate of the planet depended on that girl.
A girl who wanted to do the right thing.
But who had no idea at all what that was...
Yeah... I read it only once, but made 2 drawings about it, and can't forget...
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That was a great scene yeah, although I agree that book 48 was a little... unusual.
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Dude, I finally remembered my most memorable scene
(haha yea, took me a while to remember)
Megamorphs..... 3? wait I better check.. yea Megamorphs 3. Elfangors Secret.
This simple line: "Thunk! A hole appeared in Jake's forehead."
and then afterwards: "Five heads snapped. Six pairs of eyes stared. Four mouths and one thought-speak voice said the same word. "Jake?" "
I just loved it. I can't remember if I saw it coming, but I know I was very shocked at the time when I read it.
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Oh yeah, lol. That was a great moment. Another one I thought of was simply
"GET! THAT! BUTTERFLY!"
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Oh yeah, lol. That was a great moment. Another one I thought of was simply
"GET! THAT! BUTTERFLY!"
Yeah, I remember that. Priceless.
I remember reading the AC, where Arbron gets trapped in morph. Elfangor telling him to come on and demorph, but arbron telling him that he can't, reminded me of the end of the first book. When Jake told Tobias to come on and demorph.
And when Ax killed that T-Rex. That was awesome.
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Jara Hamee yelling "Free or die!" And for some reason, Jake and the Howler falling through the sky always stuck in my mind. And Tobias getting tortured. That was deep for me when I was in like 6th grade.
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How about Jara Hamee slicing his skull open to show Tobias and Ax he didn't have a Yeerk in his head? Or when Jake said <You're kidding. His name is Jeremy?>
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How about Jara Hamee slicing his skull open to show Tobias and Ax he didn't have a Yeerk in his head? Or when Jake said <You're kidding. His name is Jeremy?>
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That was an awesome moment. I just want to include
Tobias: Did that scare the pee out of you, Ax-man?
Ax: I am as peeless as you, Tobias, my friend.
Also I enjoyed the #30 when Marco put in everything he had and charged at his mom to knock her off the mountain.
Visser One (smiles): I know you, don't I?
Marco: I am an Andalite warrior.
Visser One: No. Andalites don't make jokes. Let alone popular human culture references. No, you're human. And...someone I once knew. Long ago, maybe. But someone I knew.
I froze when i first read that part. Visser One was one very sly b**tch, and there was a lot of emotion in that scene.
Marco: I love you (charges)
Visser One (amazed): The boy! It's the boy!
And we all know how it ends...
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Yeah, those were all great, amazing moments. Especially the one that sounds like Jara is prophesying the title of the next Die Hard movie. ;)
Another one I like is when Rachel scares the piss out of the elephant keeper at the zoo. >:D
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Let us not forget when we harken back to the David trilogy (yes harken), that they stomped the living daylights out of the housing of all the world leaders.
On free or die: I think Jara Hamee just wanted his New Hampshire drivers license
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I like the "pokey man" reference in . . . The Diversion, I think it was.
Another one I like is when Rachel scares the piss out of the elephant keeper at the zoo. >:D
Oh, yeah! >:D I love idiots who think animals are property get what they deserve!
On free or die: I think Jara Hamee just wanted his New Hampshire drivers license
;D ;D ;D Lol!
Of course, I don't live in New Hampshire, but I get the reference.
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Let us not forget when we harken back to the David trilogy (yes harken), that they stomped the living daylights out of the housing of all the world leaders.
Speaking of which, I never figured out which President it was that was drunk as hell when Rachel came charging through his bungalow.
I'd like to think it was Bush, but was he even Prez at the time the book came out? Although he was an alcoholic at one point in real life...
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Okay, for one, Clinton was President at the time.
Secondly, it was one of the foreign leaders who was drunk, not-so-subtly hinted at being the Russian President.
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Then Im impressed that Rachel even recognized or even knew the name of the other foreign leaders.
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Why? She was the academic of the group...
If anyone recognized him it'd most likely be her or Marco, who were the ones present.
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Really? Rachel was the academic one? I'm not disputing you, I just can't remember that being said right now. You're probably right though, now that I think about it.
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It's said on two or three occasions throughout the books that Rachel gets the best grades/is an honor student/whatever. Plus those scenes where she's actually doing homework at the meetings while the others are goofing off etc.
Further evidence to dispute the "Rachel was a dumb angry vicious berserker" fan idiocy.
Marco would probably be as "intelligent", and Cassie too. But Marco doesn't apply himself, and Cassie has the whole rehabilitation clinic thing keeping her busy. Jake's an average Joe mediocre schmuck, and Tobias is a dreamer.
But yeah, if anyone was paying attention in junior high history class, it was Rachel.
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True, you're right. However most junior high students, no matter how intelligent unless they were prodigy's, wouldn't recognize another nations leader. HOWEVER, Rachel had more reason than most to care about who the leaders were, especially in this case. So I can believe it.
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True, you're right. However most junior high students, no matter how intelligent unless they were prodigy's, wouldn't recognize another nations leader.
These days, maybe. Kids ten years ago weren't retards.
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It has nothing to do with being retarded. I was in junior high... 13 years ago and I can tell you most of us wouldn't have recognized any world leader who wasn't the President. It's just the way the educational system combined with most teenagers not caring works.
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Well, yeah, but before the interw3bz and new-school MTV devolved the youth of the population into degenerate gibbering gimps, kids were able to be given a little more credit. I don't think it's unrealistic at all for a 13 year old Jake to know the occasional general model names of U.S. military tanks and aircraft carrier classes, or for Rachel to recognize the face of an international leader she saw on TV, or for Tobias to know a good deal about dinosaurs.
That would be more rare these days, but if we're assuming these books took place in the time frame they were published, it's not a big deal.
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Sorry, what I'm saying may be confusing, but I mean.... I don't think it's unrealistic that they could know, but I also don't think it would be unrealistic for them NOT to know. Does that make sense?
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Not for kids of reasonable intelligence growing up before this decade, I would think.
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Xeno it's completely plausible that kids 'of ordinary intelligence' would not recognize the Russian or French or whatever leader. I don't care WHAT decade it is.
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Aiiiiight, yo.
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Cassie: Aaaaaaaahhhhh!
Jake: Look out! Lookoutlookoutlooko utlookout!
Marco: Would you both shut up? I'm trying to drive here!
Jake: Car! Car! Car!
Marco: (yanks wheel left)
Driver: (speeds by, blares horn, and flips Marco off)
Marco: That's rude. And totally uncalled for.
BAM!
Cassie: Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!
Marco: Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Marco: Okay, so it's four trash cans.
Jake: Get off the sidewalk, you lunatic!
Marco: (yanks wheel right, bumps the sidewalk, grazes a parked car)
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Jake: Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!
Marco: I can't drive with you screaming in my ear.
Jake: You can't drive at all!
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Cassie: Aaaaaaaahhhhh!
Jake: Look out! Lookoutlookoutlooko utlookout!
Marco: Would you both shut up? I'm trying to drive here!
Jake: Car! Car! Car!
Marco: (yanks wheel left)
Driver: (speeds by, blares horn, and flips Marco off)
Marco: That's rude. And totally uncalled for.
BAM!
Cassie: Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!
Marco: Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Marco: Okay, so it's four trash cans.
Jake: Get off the sidewalk, you lunatic!
Marco: (yanks wheel right, bumps the sidewalk, grazes a parked car)
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Jake: Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!
Marco: I can't drive with you screaming in my ear.
Jake: You can't drive at all!
I had forgotten that -- scenario, is probably a good term. ;D Love it! Gives me a laugh every time . . . because that's basically how I'd drive. . . . That's how my grandmother drives, come to think of it. . . .
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I think these characters were the best role models I ever had as a kid. Man, Marco is awesome, and Jake is brilliant.
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oh yes! i remember that trash can scenario now!
the one with marco and his mom....wow. awesome. and it's a young adult book too.