6) Iniss stuns Ax and has him right in his grasp. So what does he do? Leaves Ax in a room without tying him up or anything. Kind of a stupid move, man. Either kill him or infest him. Anything else is just stupid. even if his host chapman is involuntary.
1) Why do you think it took this long to introduce another Visser beyond Esplin and Estrid?No idea. Surely it was something the authors knew fans had on the back of their mind. I always asked myself 'if we'd already seen a V4, and V1 and V3 have a heavy impact on the series, why haven't we seen the works of a V2!?!?'.
2) What do you think about the decision to begin morphing humans without asking permission? Too far, or was it about time? Should they have crossed that line long before this book?I think never were the stakes so high. In some ways, this makes me realize that it was here that they were finally starting to see morphing more as weapons in the war. The only true advantage they had in the series. The tactics have to match the weight of the missions, not for the sake of being easy, but for the sake of the enemy's defeat.
3) What was your impression of Visser Two?I was looking for something that made him measure up against V1 and V3, but besides being a great tactician, there wasn't much there, was there?! He wasn't ignorant and bloodthirsty like Esplin (he backed down when a greater threat to his people reared on its head) and he wasn't quite ruthless and canniving like Edriss (he puts his body on the field of action).
4) The vast majority of this book consisted of fight scenes that involved Navy personel fighting side by side with the Animorphs. What did you think about this in general?I was a bit lost at some of these scenes. I couldn't picture the navy mentality compacting with the earth animals fighting off the same enemy. I actually think the navy would have been more like a 'Whattahell-don't-know-what-to-do!!!' kind of reaction and inevitably have fired at one of the Anis.
4) I think it's fine. I think the part where Ax consoles the dying man is touching, with him saying he really tried to fight the Yeerk.I think this was a very strong scene. Kinda reminded me of the one in #MM3 where he is being bombarded and trapped under bodies on the beach. And may well have been the one that sent Ax over the edge to do what he did.
5) Did Ax make the right choice in technically betraying Jake? Why/why not?Not sure whether it was THE right choice, because I don't know why, but I could have seen Jake going with Ax's plan, had he had the time to explain it. I am more concerned with the fact that Ax had the time to coherce his teamates into helping him, but no time to get Jake's authorization.
6) Anything else?When he backed down in that last scene, did anyone else feel it fit into the continuity of a Yeerk giving up when the odds are against them (ref.#6:The Capture)?! We kinda didn't see much of this factor in Yeerks once Jake gave us that insight, did we?! So I thought it was interesting witnessing it on a mighty Yeerk leader.
Iniss stuns Ax and has him right in his grasp. So what does he do? Leaves Ax in a room without tying him up or anything. Kind of a stupid move, man. Either kill him or infest him. Anything else is just stupid. even if his host chapman is involuntary.
WHAT THE HELL did Ax do to this Visser, sworn enemy to the Earth cause, once he landed with the plane?!?Never thought about this stuff ethier. but both good points. Damn plot holes
1) Why do you think it took this long to introduce another Visser beyond Esplin and Estrid?
2) What do you think about the decision to begin morphing humans without asking permission? Too far, or was it about time? Should they have crossed that line long before this book?
3) What was your impression of Visser Two?
4) The vast majority of this book consisted of fight scenes that involved Navy personel fighting side by side with the Animorphs. What did you think about this in general?
5) Did Ax make the right choice in technically betraying Jake? Why/why not?
6) Anything else? :D
6. Does anyone else feel
A. It was a cop out not to explain how V3 got promoted to V1 other than the throwaway response of "Yeerk politics is weird."
B. Rachel's portrayal is at its worst in Ax's books.
But more importantly, WHAT THE HELL did Ax do to this Visser, sworn enemy to the Earth cause, once he landed with the plane?!?!?! It frustrated me heaps how the book just ends without addressing that.
6) Iniss stuns Ax and has him right in his grasp. So what does he do? Leaves Ax in a room without tying him up or anything. Kind of a stupid move, man. Either kill him or infest him. Anything else is just stupid. even if his host chapman is involuntary.
...Ax is the luckiest SOB in the entire universe. How else would he have gotten a fully loaded, undamaged, nuclear-armed F-14 that was already on the catapult, and flown it out of range of a couple of Bug Fighters in the direction of the Yeerk Pool, all with a kidnapped Yeerk Visser onboard, without raising suspicions?...Hahaha! Man, we gotta look past these plot holes. Animorphs is FULL of these 'convenient' devices to make the story work out. Stuff that got past under radar when we were kids, but the story would have been crap without them. Just gotta believe that's how it happened, or, if you prefer, blame the Ellimist for these quirky things. It's the Ani-verse! What they say, really happened!!! Heheheh! ;D ;) :D :andalite: