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Title: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Dogman15 on May 28, 2011, 12:32:51 AM
From what I can tell, they're morphing into a tiger, elephant, gorilla, and horse while hundreds if not thousands of human- and Hork-Bajir-Controllers can see them! And then they demorph on the stairs on the way out! Cassie morphs into a horse in the middle of a crowd of freed hosts. Did no one see them?

I know they're way more careful later in the series at not letting themselves be seen morphing (and it even becomes a plot point ~2.5 years later when a kid snaps a photo of them morphing and they have to get it back). But this is ridiculous! Someone had to have seen them! Visser Three was right there at the staircase as a :visser3: , and he didn't see them demorph to get through the staircase?
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: cams on May 28, 2011, 12:48:32 AM
Also, didn't they demorph in the Yeerk pool in front of controllers when they nearly got eaten by a Taxxon? When they first met the Ellimist?
I think the book said the controllers just stared at them going WTH?
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Blazing Angel on May 28, 2011, 04:46:36 PM
you have to remember their were a ton of human casualties during that mission, hosts and free people, were killed by the dozens byvisser threes most dungeons and dragons like morph or "Mr many headed fire ball shooting monster thingy that is unfair"
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: TobiasMasonPark on May 28, 2011, 06:22:03 PM
     No. Someone must have seen them. My guess is, those Yeerks decided to keep quiet.

Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Dogman15 on May 29, 2011, 03:59:21 AM
I ask this because I recently finished writing a screenplay based on book 1, and in paying very close attention to "seen" details in the book, I took notice of their rampant morphing. Yeah, maybe witness Controllers did just choose to keep quiet. ...I guess.

Oh, and Cams? In book 7, the Ellimist froze time completely, so no one saw them demorph.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: SuperBlue on May 29, 2011, 09:02:04 AM
Didn't it say that V3 was pretty much the last Yeerk to suspect the Andalite Bandits may not be Andalite bandits? I'm guessing a lot of Yeerks knew but didn't say anything cuz well....V3 is batsh** insane and decapitates people for fun. Plus they probably didn't get a good luck at the anis faces so telling the Visser wouldn't have done any good.


Minion: Visser Three. We've discovered the Andalites from yesterday are really humans

V3: Excellent. Who were the humans?

Minion: We...uh....don't know


(two weeks later, Visser Three is using that minion's head in the big bowling tournament against Visser 1's team)
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: cams on May 29, 2011, 09:09:29 AM
Oh, and Cams? In book 7, the Ellimist froze time completely, so no one saw them demorph.
No, they were definetely running in front of controllers as human.
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The Taxxon lay ruined and reeking all around us. The room full of human-Controllers eating
dinner was no longer frozen by the Ellimist.
Now they were frozen by sheer disbelief. "Let's bail!" I yelled. "Before they can think about
it."
We ran. Slipping and slithering through the Taxxon's guts, still forming the last of our fingers
and toes, we tore out of there.
"Get them!" a human voice yelled. "Get them, you fools, or Visser Three will chew your
bones!"
Suddenly, with a roar, the human-Controllers surged up out of their chairs.
A Hork-Bajir near the door moved swiftly to cut us off. Ax swung his tail with blinding
speed. It hit the Hork-Bajir in his shoulder.
"Head for the dropshaft!" Marco cried as he led the way from the room.
"Everyone but Ax, if you can morph again, do it!" Jake yelled as we raced for the dropshaft.
"We need firepower!"
I didn't need to be told. The only one of us who had any kind of natural ability to fight was
Ax. I was already trying to focus my mind on the bear that I had made a part of me.
Part of me knew it was foolish. I should morph the elephant, or a wolf. I knew both of those
morphs, I could handle them. But I also knew the elephant might not fit in the dropshaft. And
I wanted power.
"Whumpf!"
Something hit me and I went sprawling across the dirt.
A man stood over me. A grown man! He had slammed into me. For some reason, this
outraged me.
What kind of a creep would hit a girl half his size?
Of course I knew the answer. I knew the man was not really a man at all, but a Controller.
The Yeerk in his head didn't know or care about chivalry.
The man bent over me and began to put his hands around my throat. Suddenly, he only had
one hand.
"Aaarrrgghhh!" he cried, falling back.
"Thanks, Ax," I said.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: SuperBlue on May 29, 2011, 09:29:35 AM
....WTF....
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: moeby on May 29, 2011, 09:58:50 AM
it's most probably a KASU :XD:
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Morilore on May 29, 2011, 02:35:31 PM
A wizard the Ellimist did it.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Dogman15 on May 30, 2011, 04:28:44 AM
Here to help!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt)
Have fun with your life being ruined (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife)!
 >:D
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: moeby on May 30, 2011, 04:57:17 AM
^truth.
my life was ruined when i found that site :|  :rofl2:
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Blazing Angel on May 30, 2011, 09:55:54 AM
mhmmm thank you ellemist for letting alll the little controllers get hit over the head and lose their memory.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: NateSean on June 07, 2011, 04:12:31 PM
Look, it's very simple.

On the night the Animorphs attacked, everyone was watching a new episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I once ignored a tornado warning to watch Buffy, so you can bet the rest of the yeerks were like, "Yeah, I just saw four humans morphing from roach, but screw it. Angel just turned evil and I need to check that out."
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Mewmorpher on June 07, 2011, 04:48:07 PM
They were probably in mid morph when they saw them, so no one could recinise the. By the way, the Animorphs term for that would be "an ellimist did it" (I read that somewhere on that SITE!)
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Blazing Angel on June 07, 2011, 05:11:15 PM
thick we already decided on that
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: cams on June 08, 2011, 07:16:07 AM
They were probably in mid morph when they saw them, so no one could recinise the. By the way, the Animorphs term for that would be "an ellimist did it" (I read that somewhere on that SITE!)
But Rachel said that this controller has no respect for woman at all.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Alan Fangor on June 08, 2011, 09:03:11 AM
I think that there are other strange things in the first book. For example, the woman escaped riding on Cassie. So, there is a woman who knows everything about the Yeerks, and she's free. What about her? Did the yeerks try to kill or recapture her?

Maybe ths is a KASU.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: DinosaurNothlit on June 08, 2011, 09:16:43 AM
I think that there are other strange things in the first book. For example, the woman escaped riding on Cassie. So, there is a woman who knows everything about the Yeerks, and she's free. What about her? Did the yeerks try to kill or recapture her?

Remember that crazy woman from MM#1?  That woman is widely believed to be the same woman that Cassie rescued.

Anyway, about the subject at large, I'm guessing that the reason nobody suspected that the Animorphs were human is because Visser Three is a batsh** lunatic (as has been mentioned in the books as well as in this thread).  I can easily picture him responding to "Hey, I think maybe the Andalite bandits are human?" with <Are you implying that I am so incompetent as to be stifled by mere human youths!?!> Fwap!  That's the sound-effect for an Andalite's tail, for anyone with bad memory, by the way.

So it makes some amount of sense to me, without invoking the "Ellimist did it" clause.  It isn't that no Yeerk ever realized the Animorphs were human.  It's just that any Yeerk who came forward with that information quickly unrealized it.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: NateSean on June 08, 2011, 01:53:47 PM

Anyway, about the subject at large, I'm guessing that the reason nobody suspected that the Animorphs were human is because Visser Three is a batsh** lunatic (as has been mentioned in the books as well as in this thread). 

They suspected it around The Messenger when the Animorphs morphed into trout and the controllers chasing them found their clothes.

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I can easily picture him responding to "Hey, I think maybe the Andalite bandits are human?" with <Are you implying that I am so incompetent as to be stifled by mere human youths!?!> Fwap! 

And that's why Visser Three never caught in. If V1 or heck, any of the slightly more competent Vissers had been in control of Earth's invasion the Animorphs would have been routed and infested.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Blazing Angel on June 08, 2011, 11:14:55 PM
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That's the sound-effect for an Andalite's tail, for anyone with bad memory, by the way.

I really dont think we need to be reminded
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: DinosaurNothlit on June 08, 2011, 11:22:56 PM
I really dont think we need to be reminded

:facepalm:  I'm a moron sometimes.  Which occasionally leads me to assume that other people are morons too, sorry about that.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Blaise Zebrataur on June 09, 2011, 04:15:10 AM
Well I don't know honestly what to think about it.The controllers COULD have saw them and kept quiet.They didn't see them all that well due to Visser Three or where just stupid and probably though they were other humans getting away(if during mid-morph I have no clue.).

Besides I am not an expert on this stuff,only the bird-boy stuff. :P
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Blazing Angel on June 09, 2011, 09:17:25 AM
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Which occasionally leads me to assume that other people are morons too, sorry about that.

I would assume about 60% of the population his the idiot gland. The rest have the "no common sense" growth.
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: yunyun on June 09, 2011, 06:16:37 PM
     No. Someone must have seen them. My guess is, those Yeerks decided to keep quiet.



yeah, it's sorta impossible to morph/demorph in front of that much people without being noticed   
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Blazing Angel on June 09, 2011, 07:32:29 PM
ellemist invisibility cloak!
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Dogman15 on June 11, 2011, 02:21:00 AM
I think that there are other strange things in the first book. For example, the woman escaped riding on Cassie. So, there is a woman who knows everything about the Yeerks, and she's free. What about her? Did the yeerks try to kill or recapture her?

Remember that crazy woman from MM#1?  That woman is widely believed to be the same woman that Cassie rescued.

And if there were ever a film adaptation of book 1 and a TV special of Megamorphs 1, then K.A. Applegate herself should play the part of that woman. :P
Title: Re: In the first book, they morph a bunch at the Yeerk pool.
Post by: Tim Bruening on August 01, 2015, 09:26:33 PM
I think that there are other strange things in the first book. For example, the woman escaped riding on Cassie. So, there is a woman who knows everything about the Yeerks, and she's free. What about her? Did the yeerks try to kill or recapture her?

Maybe ths is a KASU.

The Animorphs would have told her to keep quiet, and move far, far, away!