Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Aldrea Hammee on September 20, 2010, 07:00:42 PM
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Choose.
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Can I choose 53-54? ::)
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Damn. Really hard to pick between Buffahuman and Australia. Went with Buffahuman, since it REALLY broke canon with the way the morphing cube worked. Hated the Australia book, but at least it didn't break my brain like Buffahuman did.
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To be honest I thought the australia one was okay, and the buffahuman one wasn't that bad.
The one I have trouble with is 36 I mean there are atlanteans living off the coast of california and they just forget about it at the end of the series!
They could have gotten three books out of that at least, have the yeerks come back and take the atlanteans or something.
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How is #36 not on there? That book is easily the worst thing in the entire series. It's nonsensical, pointless, does nothing to develop the characters, introduces plot points that are never mentioned again, not to mention just mindblowingly stupid. And the way they escape is never appropriately explained - how did Marco and Rachel get from their (incredibly injured) battle morphs to ORCA (which requires air) without drowning? Not to mention that Marco states he can't hold the hatch closed, and then Jake's plan is to have him hold the hatch closed until the appropriate moment. NO. NO. BAD AUTHOR. BE CONSISTENT WITH YOURSELF. GOD.
I mean, I hate #41 more. I hate #41 with the furnace-like hate that you could use to fuel a freight train from New York to Las Vegas. I have dreams where I rip #41 apart with my bare teeth and then feast on the papery remains. But at least #41 has a few good lines in it. #36 has exactly one fun line ("Mr. Psycho's Nautical Toybox and Graveyard"), and it's in the preview chapter at the end of #35, so there is no reason for #36 to exist as an entire book at all. Well, that and the Luminar's kinda cool.
I voted for #41 by the way, even though #36 deserves it more, just because I can't resist an opportunity to make jabs at the trash-heap that is The Familiar.
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:-[ Lol sorry, I forgot how bad #36 was. Maybe I subconsciously put it out of my mind.
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No hard feelings! At least #41 was on there. ;)
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Damn. Really hard to pick between Buffahuman and Australia. Went with Buffahuman, since it REALLY broke canon with the way the morphing cube worked. Hated the Australia book, but at least it didn't break my brain like Buffahuman did.
I went with #39 for the same reason. I didn't think #44 was that bad, but they could easily have improved it. #48 was far too weird in parts, but I quite liked the ethical dilemma Rachel faces. #41 was working until they basically pulled a "Whoops! It was all Jake's nightmare!" on us. Now if they'd altered it a little so that it involved actual time travel, I would've loved it.
As for #36, I agree they could've done a lot more with it.
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I think 41 could have been a lot better if K.A wrote it. I mean, that dream was a good way of knowing Jake deep inside. It showed his guilt, his drive for fighting, his worries. I have to admit that it was a bit poorly done.
BuffaChapman just... just... >_<
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34 or 54
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THE MUTATION MUST DIE.
Though, to be honest, it hardly counted as canon to begin with. Freakin' fish people.
Hah, just saw I wasn't the first wondering how it didn't get on the list.
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I edited the poll guys, check it out :-]
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You didn't include 31? That was a perfect example of an idiot plot if I ever heard one. Australia was not the worst. Mainly because I don't think anything happened that punches a hole in my willing suspension of disbelief. Though the weird alien infection from the ship part did seem pointless. It was apparently just to emphasize that Yeerks being on Earth is bad, when that's been well established.
48 was weird, but I often use the fact that Rachel said no to Crayak with absolutely no outside convincing or prodding as evidence that she hadn't gone too far to be able to cope during peace time. So I wouldn't throw it out. Maybe change it a bit, but I do like the general plot of it. The Aniverse version of the Deveil trying to bring the darkest member of the group to the Dark Side.
The mutation and Buffahuman are good contenders for ripping out. I also really hated 53-54. I really don't like that Cassie gave the morphing cube away, but it would be more tolerable if they just left it at Cassie doing something stupid instead of trying to justify it and have her say she did it on purpose for the betterment of the war. No she didn't. She did it to keep Jake from doing something that he really didn't need to do in the first place, and there were never just two choices to make. The ghostwriter was trying to make the classic sadistic choice, except ususally the hero chooses a third option, and the third option here was pretty glaring.
41? Yeah, it's pretty stupid. don't need that either.
If I could only pick one book, I'd choose 31. That's quite possibly the stupidest book in the entire series.
I don't know which one 34 was, and I can't check the ebooks to see which one it was like I always do.
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#31 has a stupid plot, but it has some great scenes between Jake and Marco, and a good one between Jake and Ax. The character exploration in that one totally saves the book for me. And the fact that it actually deals with the fallout of #30 a bit, which we really don't see again until #35.
But yeah, plot's idiotic.
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I like the change to the poll reflecting #36 XD
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I picked 39 out of those. I could stand to read 36 more than 39, because that one was just so weird. It breaks canon about the box, and I don't like the idea of a naked Chapman walking around learning how to say the word good.
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34 was the one where they travel to the Hork-Bajir homeworld, and my least favorite book in the series :)
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Oh yeah. The book that not only didn't go anywhere, but apparently a current resistance force on the HB planet isn't even enough for Toby to want to leave Earth and retake her people's home and free the slaves within. Even though I think she had to be tricked into leaving at the end of the book in the first place.
I once mentioned an idea of the series continuing by the Anis going there, but someone said it wasn't their fight. and they made some excuse for Toby not going, even though there are living Horks that would probably want to be free and live on their planet, instead of being guests on an overcrowded planet where the more extreme locals kill you just for being a little different.
Another pointless plot that could have gone somewhere, but didn't.
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I picked 39 out of those. I could stand to read 36 more than 39, because that one was just so weird. It breaks canon about the box, and I don't like the idea of a naked Chapman walking around learning how to say the word good.
*offers #39 a blindfold and a cigarette* :shredder:
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Though I will say this. The Buffahuman book gave me a brainstorm about a dog that manages to grab the box and start morphing. Using a Human morph, he learns to communicate, though he can't talk in his normal form. He becomes the team pet who lives with Marco. Just a silly idea I came up with for just in my head.
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You guys know all the numbers by heart? :o Which book was #36?
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Numbers and names, baby! #36 was the one with the killer whales and
Atlanteans Nartecs.
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I know a lot of the numbers, but not all of them. That's one convenient thing about the ebooks, because they gave a name and picture to jog my memory. But now they're gone, and I have to confess whenever I don't know.
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Numbers and names, baby! #36 was the one with the killer whales and Atlanteans Nartecs.
I can't remember the numbers and titles :-[ Now if you say Nartecs, I do remember ;D
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I have a slightly weird opinion on #41. Because on the one hand I really loathed how badly parts of it were executed (i.e. The ENTIRE orphanage sequence. I mean what the hell Jake's brain? x3 Though it sounds eerily like something that'd come out of one of my dreams). But on the other hand I loved the concept of the book and wish K.A. had written it instead. With better mid-book filler. I'm far too obsessed with dystopias to completely hate it.
The Buffahuman sequence was probably worst. XD I mean that was just a "What kind of crack were they smoking" book. But I accidentally voted for Australia. CURSES! XP
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I love me a good dystopia, but that was just....well, not a good dystopia. What really killed it for me was the whole climactic-like-a-freaking-Flash-Gordon-sequence ending scene. Oh yeah, and then how we never found out what that alien presence commenting on Jake's dream was. I'm going with the Skrit Na theory.
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The entire book was an exercise in showing that Cassie was a self-centered whiner and Jake was her spineless whipping boy. CHARACTER DERAILMENT LIEKWHOA.
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The more I hear people talk about it, like here and the reread, the more I dislike the book. maybe it is worse than Buffahuman.
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Just to be different, I didn't like the second Jake book to be canon. I just couldn't accept him being the one to lose in a tiger vs. lion fight. >_< :(
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With as much experience as he had, as opposed to David, you'd think he'd win anyway regardless of the Lion's mane. Anyone can get lucky, though.
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Buffaman !
36 was horrible as well, but everything is better than buffaman.
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I actually really love #41, even with the nebulous cop-out ending. It's the only really in-depth look at a skewed Yeerk-Earth future that we get in the series.
I'm glad Australia got into the series but it was in such an awfully stereotypical way that didn't advance the plot, like, at all. Lame.
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The Tobias posing as Elfangor scene saves 41 for me. Anytime Elfangor is involved is gold. I hate 39 not just for the buffahuman abomination but also all the recycled plot elements. As for books not mentioned in the poll, I have to add 43 to the list. Everything about it was awful, and I am still not over the fact that they didn't put Arbron in it.
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I find it funny that some people expected Arbron to be in 43, because I had forgotten all about him by that time. I was surprised he made a return at all. Then they just use him to talk for the other Taxxons, who I was quite comfortable viewing as evil gluttonous beasts.