Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: morfowt on December 03, 2009, 04:40:53 AM
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This has been bothering me for a while, but I never thought to ask it here until now.
Why did they show ax morphing a cow and not a bull on #28? why did ax even morph a cow? it wasn't important to this plot or a later plot. it was never seen again. it wasn't even intentional, and the story would have been pretty much the same without it...
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Cow and Bull are just the male and female the same species (Cattle) but they are more commonly to most people as just Cows. They probably showed Ax morphing a Cow because they are more recognisable to most people.
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Because the illustrator was too stupid (or thought viewers were too stupid) to tell the difference.
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I always assumed the cow morph was for a comedic value. Nothing more, nothing less. The illustrator probably preferred cows to bulls, or something along that line of reasoning.
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Maybe the illustrator thought it was funny when Ax morphed teh Cow and did it. if i remember correctly on teh inside cover pic. Cassie is laughing at him
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I had more of a problem with Ax thinking cows were the dominant species in MM4 after he'd already said in like #8 that he used to watch MTV in school!
RULE OF FUNNY DOES NOT COVER OVERT INCONSISTENCIES!
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funny does not equal stupid.
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I had more of a problem with Ax thinking cows were the dominant species in MM4 after he'd already said in like #8 that he used to watch MTV in school!
RULE OF FUNNY DOES NOT COVER OVERT INCONSISTENCIES!
It's possible he forgot. The Andalites obviously didn't know a lot about Earth and Ax didn't always pay attention in class.
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RULE OF FUNNY DOES NOT COVER OVERT INCONSISTENCIES!
actually, thats pretty much exactly what rule of funny is meant to do.
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It's possible he forgot. The Andalites obviously didn't know a lot about Earth and Ax didn't always pay attention in class.
It's also possible he got a lobotomy, or tripped and hit his head on a rock and got amnesia. Any excuse you choose to make, it's stupid.
ETA: And besides, if he'd forgotten, how could he bring it up in the first place?
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RULE OF FUNNY DOES NOT COVER OVERT INCONSISTENCIES!
actually, thats pretty much exactly what rule of funny is meant to do.
that must be why I hate the rule of funny so much. That, or I have an arrested sense of humor.
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I wasn't making an excuse, merely stating the facts. I said it was possible he forgot, not that he definitely had. It's definitely not possible for him to have been lobotomised or to have received a serious head injury that we are unaware of. My suggestions were not stupid, ridiculous or outside the realm of possibility; yours were.
We also have a Modify function for a reason, please use it instead of double posting.
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god you really like being a mod don't you?
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Actually I just don't like being insulted for having a perfectly valid opinion. And it's beneficial to you knowing about the Modify function.
Now if we can get back to the topic, while I'll admit that it's possible Ax simply didn't recall that humans were the dominant species of Earth, it's far more likely that it was a minor mistake in continuity or that it was done intentionally for comedic value.
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It wasn't valid though, that was my point. THEY WATCHED MTV. They may not know a lot about Earth, but they know enough to see that cows do not normally appear on information channels.
Yeah, it was maybe a little overly sardonic, but you kind of do this a lot, where you just repeat what other people say:
I had more of a problem with Ax thinking cows were the dominant species in MM4 after he'd already said in like #8 that he used to watch MTV in school!
RULE OF FUNNY DOES NOT COVER OVERT INCONSISTENCIES!
Now if we can get back to the topic, while I'll admit that it's possible Ax simply didn't recall that humans were the dominant species of Earth, it's far more likely that it was a minor mistake in continuity or that it was done intentionally for comedic value.
You guys are so stringent about not double posting and staying on topic to the point where the only thing you can do in threads anymore is reiterate what has already been covered.
I know this isn't the place to do this and ban me if you want or whatever, but this system is really, really flawed.
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So when I point out you might be wrong I'm stupid and when I concede you're probably right I'm apparently copying everything you say? There's just no pleasing some people...
If you think this forum is strict then either you haven't explored it much or this is the only forum you have ever visited. Going off topic happens and we don't make a big deal about it unless it's being done deliberately on multiple occasions by the same people. I was trying to get you to stay on topic in order to avoid a pointless argument, but I guess you're just trying to pick a fight or something.
Since you seem to think I'm some kind of diabolical dictator, I'm not going to tell you to do anything, but I would suggest that you continue this discussion somewhere more appropriate. If you have a problem then you're welcome to message us about it, or simply find a forum that's less "strict" than this one.
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all right I'm beginning to understand what happened.
I didn't mean to call you stupid. I meant to call the discrepancy stupid. I was kind of wondering why you took that comment of mine so personally, I was actually being semi-serious at that point. Ax COULD have gotten a lobotomy on the homeworld--heck, he got half of one in book 29. And Ax COULD have hit his head sometime, on the homeworld, or on the Dome Ship, or even running around in the forest off-camera at some point. My point was, yeah, he could have forgotten, but making up excuses for discrepancies in canon is just redundant, you know? Anyone can make up any reason they want why Klingons look so different in TNG than TOS, but the fact of the matter is it's a continuity error, and any fanwank is just that without textual evidence. So I wasn't saying you were stupid for making up those possible explanations, I was saying canon made a mistake and it's pointless to make up possible explanations because then ANYTHING could be the reason.
That was my point.
So I got a little defensive about you taking my comment personally when I didn't really see the reason why (now I do), but yeah this repeating thing has been bothering me for a while. And yeah, this isn't the place to talk about it, so I'll drop it for now.
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<_< or maybe he saw more than MTV
happy cows come from California?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGwbK4xbiTk[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtzzuLoupV8&feature=related[/youtube]
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Now if we can get back to the topic, while I'll admit that it's possible Ax simply didn't recall that humans were the dominant species of Earth, it's far more likely that it was a minor mistake in continuity or that it was done intentionally for comedic value.
um... pointless, but that isn't the original topic...
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It was related to the topic though. And yes it was pointless, lol.