Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Durandal on June 25, 2010, 11:30:02 PM
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I thought of this while I was thinking about how every book contains some of the same elements....and wondered how it would look if quantified mathematically:
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Here's the tool I used: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx
I want to see what you can come up with.
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Psh, #16 was an awesome book.
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Oh man, I giggled so bad at "Tobias gets more emo." Nice work!
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this is all wrong
the peak of tobias' emoness was 33. 28? where do you get such a number?
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lol That's awesome ^^ except for all the mistakes :P The first volumes with Ax are awesome for me, for example...
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The idea of a graph is kind of cool, but yours is obviously inaccurate. The awesome level should stay more constant during the earlier books, then sink down after book 26, then start to recover a bit in the final arc. Tobias' wangst is totally off too, though the moral and ethical struggles may be accurate.
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how dare you let 44 rank about a 2 for awesome
overall funny, but that's a mistake that must be fixed
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Mine was just an example...but you're free to make your own charts with corrections
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lol okay I just noticed "explanation of thermals" that redeems the whole thing
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Pretty nice, especially the Thermals explanation.
Welcoem to the froum BTW! You should mosey on down to the introductions thread, say hello to us properly!
*Whisper* You like Marathon?
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This...wins the RAF Internet. Like about six times over. ;D If only for the line displaying "Explanation of thermals" on it. X3
Although Tobias' emo-ness is also a good measure. Though I'd say that peaks during the torture scenes, with good reason.
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actually I was Dogan on the old board and i just reregistered...
Yes I do like Marathon.
Anyway, more graphs:
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f55/Dogan2/graph2-1.png)
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f55/Dogan2/graph3.png)
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Lol, those are great! I love the humor too. And THAT DISC WAS SO STUPID AND POINTLESS. THAT SHOW WAS A MENACE AT TIMES.
*ahem* Nice work. I'd love to see more! :D
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:rofl2: Love it!
V0, what do you mean "at times"? :P It was pretty much a menace every which way.
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Rachel on a good day: 9
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Which disk was this?
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From the TV show. Hence the whole... statements about the show.
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Erg! Which disk? I only saw a few episodes
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...What do you mean what disc?? O.o I just said. For pete's sake, it's in the first episode.
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Yeah, I haven't seen that episode for over a year. *Thinks hard*
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::) It isn't that important, anyway. See graph.
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once again the graph maker is
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx
I want to see what you guys can come up with
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:rofl2: Love it!
V0, what do you mean "at times"? :P It was pretty much a menace every which way.
Not always. I actually like a few episodes. But the Erek one pissed me off to no end and still does to this day.
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I just looked at the actor and didn't want to see the rest. :P If I've watched it the whole way through, I've blocked it out.
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(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f55/Dogan2/graph4.png)
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i really like the idea and the various things (the thermals thing was funny :D), but i don't think the first graph reflects the series well.
not that i could do any better without re-reading quite a few of the books.
nice thread idea though :) +1
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Hi Dunedal, welcome to RAF! I love this concept, you made me giggle quite a bit (Tobias is ALWAYS emo, man! XD)
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That made me laugh :p
Tara, is that normal that there is 1% missing in your graph ? ;D
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Yes, the data are skewed! See the attached addendum referencing physiological necessities!
...actually I just forgot to make it even XD
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Your title sounds very pro ;D
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Your title sounds very pro ;D
Oh, yes. All of my *ahrm* work is quite professional, right down to the 2% margin of error.
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Very nice guys! Here's mine :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v508/Terenia/graph.jpg)
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Hahaha XD Good old Ellimist takes pity on Visser Three once in a while, at least!
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actually I was Dogan on the old board and i just reregistered...
Yes I do like Marathon.
Anyway, more graphs:
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f55/Dogan2/graph2-1.png)
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f55/Dogan2/graph3.png)
Ax around food: infinity
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/russianspy1234/graph.jpg)
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Ax around food: infinity
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f55/Dogan2/graph5.png)
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Ax around food: infinity
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f55/Dogan2/graph5.png)
Thanx for the support, lol
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I can tell this is going to start some heated debate
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I can tell this is going to start some heated debate
I'll be first to start it...how dare you make Cassie that high? lol
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I'll be first to start it...how dare you make Cassie that high? lol
Hahaha
I'm more confused about why Jake is so low, I didn't realize he didn't have many fans in the community.
I think Tobias and Rachel should be bigger than they are, especially Tobias.
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I think Tobias and Rachel should be bigger than they are, especially Tobias.
I agree. All the "Which Animorphs is your favorite?" polls I've seen have Tobias with a #1 spot and a comfortable lead over whoever's in the #2 spot (usually Marco or Rachel).
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I'll be first to start it...how dare you make Cassie that high? lol
Hahaha
I'm more confused about why Jake is so low,
Well Jake wasn't gonna orginally be low but then I remembered Marco, Tobias, and Rachel are probably more loved than him. Especially Marco
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I love the cinnabon graph.
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sure I'll give it a try... something that always bothered me about the "Mighty" Andalites
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lol Poor Andalites ^^'
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I thought their looking bad on Leera was a deliberate trap? The only reason that came so close to failure was because the critical guy turned traitor, and Ax managed to detonate the explosives anyway.
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I thought their looking bad on Leera was a deliberate trap? The only reason that came so close to failure was because the critical guy turned traitor, and Ax managed to detonate the explosives anyway.
yeah, true, but I was speaking to the poor planning on their part.
A super secret mission where if a single person finds out, all is lost. where do they plan this mission? in the middle of a planet where the natives are telepathic and the chance is high that at least a few are infested. Despite this they have no guards for the explosives, they have no suspicion of their fellows that there could be a traitor (arrogant), and someone has to physically activate the bombs in the end, but they have no one with the proper morphs for it. Basically, they assume that everything will go perfectly and have no plan to fall back on, which is stupid. Lucky for them a one in a gazillion chance happened and five (well less cause of the big rubber band thing) morph capable people land in their laps with the perfect morphs for the job.
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Obviously Seventhsage's intent is humor, so I'm not going to be too critical, but for the sake of discussion: presumably the reason that the Andalites never are seen being helpful is due to a limited perspective on our parts, what to us it the All Important Human-Yeerk War might only be a relatively small battle between the Yeerks and a sufficient amount of Andalites to wipe out their current space forces around Earth.
They could be feeling that the Yeerks entrenched on Earth would be require more resources to take down than would be expedient for Andalite commanders looking to choose the best battles to engage in for minimal losses. It was revealed that "Z-space shifted" in some manner after the Andalites were defeat at the beginning of the series, so it would take much longer to get to Earth from current positions, meaning they would either send too many forces to wipe out the Earth-based Yeerks when they would be necessary elsewhere, or they would send too few and accomplish nothing.
They could be fighting in several locations throughout the galaxy to prevent the Yeerks from conquering various species that aren't quite as numerous as humans, but are much more formidable, if the Yeerks one on those fronts and got a hold of more species like the Garatrons and Leerans and an unimaginable variety of individuals that are more powerful than individual humans, then sent them to Earth to hold strategic positions along with Hork-Bajir shock troops, the diversity in their army may have made them much more unstoppable.
Still, I would think that what it would come down to is who conquered the space, so physical bodies would be unimportant to the allies of the Andalites and the hosts of the Yeerks, all that would matter is how fast they can build more ships and get out crews to man them, so you could certainly argue that it is a bad move strategically to allow Earth to fall and let Yeerks grow from thousands of viable host bodies to billions.
As far as the battle for Leera goes, the 'looking bad' of losing the land battle was just a feint (which probably took a lot of swallowing of Andalite pride to do), and even having traitors (as unimaginable as that was to them) on their side should have been no problem since they were supposed to lose the battle as a trap. The plan was a secret except those at the top (Assuming that they did have appropriate measures with the Leerans of the City of Worms to make sure that secret was kept), so the betrayal of regular commanders and captains shouldn't have been a problem. The actual problem in their plan was that the trap wasn't prepared and set-up in advance, and running into snags in rushed military operations is expected... But yes, it was certainly silly when their technology is super-advanced but they still set up things with such ridiculous drawbacks as was presented in that book.
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I think the Andalites doing nothing should have been bigger....
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My attempt ><
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Wait....I remember starting this thread like 2 years ago....WHATEVER.
Three guesses on which book I read yesterday.
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e: one more
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Um....no clue?
The David Trilogy?
:P Just kidding.
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Thats awesome, DinosaurNothlit, but you should have added doors.
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Don't forget book 28: Fence
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That's funny, because "fences" was actually one of the ones I had considered putting up there. "Doors" had not occurred to me, but just picture a line across the top of the graph and you'll be pretty close, I think.
I'd also thought about graphing "houses," "sanity," and "McDonaldses," but in the end, there just wasn't enough room to graph everything the Animorphs have destroyed without the graph looking too cluttered, haha.