Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Yorick Brown on August 14, 2008, 11:32:30 AM
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Now that I think of it, I really would have liked to have known what a milleniums-old android has seen and heard and feels.
Does he long to be flesh and blood like everyone else? Is he tired of seeing friends age and die all around?
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I have to go with no on this one. Why? Not sure. But still a definite no.
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id like to see how KA would have handled that, it could have been interesting.
but, id also have to agree with wotw, there's something that says android could be annoying or something
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Sure, why not? It's always nice to get a different perspective on something.
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But wouldn't we know exactly how the book would play out without even reading it? It'd be another violence-centered plot piece, with Erek booing and hooing and annoying Marco and giving Cassie a big pat on the back.
We've seen it all in books #10 and #26, and we know his backstory. Erek's just exposition, nothing more.
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Sure I'd like to hear his point of view, if not just for maybe one book.
Can you guys imagine how bored Erek will, er would have been, after the Animorphs grew up and moved on and the war was no longer happening. Seriously, what would he do with all that time? He would be so bored without them.... if an android is capable of bordom?? ???
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I'm sure they find ways to pass the time. I mean, he HAS been on earth since the pyramids were build.
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A Pemalites Chronicle viewing the downfall of the Chee would have been sweet.
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Why? We've seen it? The only story there is a bunch of Howlers emerging from Z-Space and killing and killing and killing some more, the Pemalites loading up all of their tin cans in a spaceship and flying off into the sunset crying.
That can all be told in the two or three chapters we got in book 10. Don't need any more depth or specificity.
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Thats pretty narrow minded, don't you think the Chee ever did anything to prevent their fate?
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Uh, no. They didn't. Or at least not until there were too few of them left to matter.
Marco was always right about the Pemalites being idiots. Technologically brilliant, but idiots.
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Erek is one of my favorite characters, but I can't imagine a section/book narrated by him adding much of anything new or interesting to the story.
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Xeno..... What you're saying is the equivalent of someone going 'The American colonies rebelled against England, eventually won, and established the United States. What else is there to know?' It just shows an extreme lack of thinking about possibilities. It's like, before Andalite Chronicles came out you could have said 'Elfangor was an andalite prince that crashed on earth and gave the animorphs their power. What else is there to know?' And you would have been wrong about that too.
Erek has lived for hundreds of years. I can't see anything from his point of view NOT being interesting.
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Oh, Erek's time on Earth I'd agree completely. That's a book, right there.
But the Howler invasion? It's just a couple of weeks/months of Howlers slaying millions of Pemalites in any creative way they can think of, and the Pemalites finally deciding "hey, let's leave". Then bundling all of their pet robots into a ship and flying away. Oops, they used a bio-bomb on us before we left. *cough splurt die*
That's it. That's the entire story on the Pemalite planet. There's nothing else there, and we already know how it happened.
But Erek's escapades on Earth? Sure, that's a Chronicles book. Just nothing before they landed.
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Erek has lived for hundreds of years. I can't see anything from his point of view NOT being interesting.
Yeah, I worded that badly. I meant that it would be interesting, but not that relevant to the plot as a whole. It'd be mostly stuff about Erek building pyramids or whatever, wouldn't it? The Yeerk invasion started pretty recently from the point of view of the books, so Erek wouldn't have been involved for very long.
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Well yeah, not relevant to the yeerk invasion, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be interesting. Though he'd need to have teamed up with someone who could fight. Because an entire book of Erik going "Damn, people A are being slaughtered. Too bad I can't do anything about it." would get old.
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There could easily have been a Pemalite Chronicles about BEFORE the Howlers attacked. Maybe have it tie into the Ellimist Chronicles.
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And we can't be sure that ABSOLUTELY NONE of the pemalites tried to resist, just because the chee's story says so. The Andalites were sure ALL of the taxons were voluntary controllers, and that turned out to be wrong.
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And we can't be sure that ABSOLUTELY NONE of the pemalites tried to resist, just because the chee's story says so. The Andalites were sure ALL of the taxons were voluntary controllers, and that turned out to be wrong.
whoa, you just blew my mind lol your absolutely right, the untouchable legend of the pemalites is millions of years old, maybe they werent as peaceful as the chee were programmed to think, damn lol
that would make a hell of a fic lol
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lol, I'm just saying there could have been SOME who resisted, even just one would make a hell of a story. The one pemalite who wanted to fight back. I mean doesn't Cassie or someone at some point say it's completely impossible for every part of a species to feel exactly the same?
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I wonder how Erik found out Eva had been infested. It was most likely during the time when he hung out with Marco the most. Unfortunately, his programming kept him from doing anything that would endanger the life of Edriss. I think that's V1's name.
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Oh, Erek's time on Earth I'd agree completely. That's a book, right there.
But the Howler invasion? It's just a couple of weeks/months of Howlers slaying millions of Pemalites in any creative way they can think of, and the Pemalites finally deciding "hey, let's leave". Then bundling all of their pet robots into a ship and flying away. Oops, they used a bio-bomb on us before we left. *cough splurt die*
That's it. That's the entire story on the Pemalite planet. There's nothing else there, and we already know how it happened.
But Erek's escapades on Earth? Sure, that's a Chronicles book. Just nothing before they landed.
I honestly can't see how you can be a fan of Animorphs and not be a fan of the details. Why didn't you just read the first and last book and skip the middle stuff?
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cuz then he'd wonder who ax was ;D
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Hahaha, very true. And you would miss one sixth of the awesomeness. (And maybe just a little more.)
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I honestly can't see how you can be a fan of Animorphs and not be a fan of the details. Why didn't you just read the first and last book and skip the middle stuff?
Bad example, Chachi.
When dealing with Howlers we're not exactly dealing with intricate character development. Someone suggested the idea of the Pemalites before the Howlers, and that's completely fine. That would be cool.
But there WERE no details with the Howler invasion. Erek said that a bunch of ships just burst out of Z-Space and started laying waste to everything while the Pemalites looked at each other in confusion. That's not a book. That's not a story. That's "aww don't you feel sorry for these cute little puppydogs getting skewered by happy vicious children?"
A Chee Chronicles would have worked...on Earth. A Pemalite Chronicles would have worked, in ancient times long before the Howlers showed up. Just not the idea you're talking about. It's just a hundred pages of Howlers finding fun ways to stab and shoot stuff.
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Then you can say the same thing about the Hork Bajir Chronicles. The yeerks showed up took over, there was no fight worthwhile and then they got new troops.
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and the yeerks just landed on the hork bajir home planet and started infesting, case closed
and the ellimist is just a supernatural being and elfangor is just a war hero and visser one is just a yeerk
the whole point of the chronicles was to take a small fact known in the animorphs universe and completely turn it on its head and expand on it and to surprise all the readers with just how much of a story there actually was there
pemalite chronicles = awesome book, as at least a few fic writers have already shown
EDIT: haha creeeepy dude, we just both posted in a 3 day old topic at the same time with the exact same point lol
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well not exactly the same time. starsword posted at 1:09. you posted at 1:10.
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Its close enough for me, I'd go with a high strangeness factor on this one. Same exact thought too. Good work. ::High Fives::
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I would've liked to read a few books narrated by Erek. Though in tough situations, the Chee could be very frustrating but their non-violence thing is not really their fault. That's the way they were programmed, therefore they can't help it.
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I think Erek's perspective would be really interesting to read from. A millenium old android programmed for peace would have a completely different view from humans and andalites. His thoughts and ideas could give another facet to the story if done right.
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I think Erek's perspective would be really interesting to read from. A millenium old android programmed for peace would have a completely different view from humans and andalites. His thoughts and ideas could give another facet to the story if done right.
agreed. It'll be pretty cool to think exactly how he thinks/deals with the non-violence thing
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It would be interesting, but I have a sneaking suspicion he would connstantly angst about that time he killed.
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Yes, definitely!