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Re: How many of you would be voluntary controllers?
« Reply #75 on: February 08, 2009, 07:43:09 PM »
I wouldn't.  To voluntarily give up your freedom, and then have you make your friends give up theirs?  Uh-uh.  Not gonna happen.
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Re: How many of you would be voluntary controllers?
« Reply #76 on: February 08, 2009, 07:46:05 PM »
Knowing what I know about the Yeerks from reading the books? No, of course I wouldn't become a voluntary controller. I'm too much of a control freak.

But let's face it, I doubt that the Yeerks/Sharing would be upfront and tell us anything about having all our control taken from us by an alien slug. And Yeerks who are sympathetic toward their hosts or are members of the peace movement are frowned upon, so we wouldn't know about that either. As far as I'm concerned, the Yeerks make sure that no one is well-informed enough to make an initial decision to become a Controller. The "voluntary" part must come later.

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Re: How many of you would be voluntary controllers?
« Reply #77 on: February 10, 2009, 10:05:05 AM »
 I have enough voices in my head that if we all rallied together we could confuse the yeerk to death.

 Seriously thought I'd probably be voluntary, you have to imagine that the people in the sharing aren't getting the whole story, they find out all the cool people they've been hanging out with are controlers and a very simple logic is posed to them: the yeerks come in peace and only want to borrow some bodies to help them out since they haven't got enough bodies of their own.

  Maybe they don't say they're at war, maybe they don't say they're conquerers if they do, maybe they're the victims instead and they need you to help them. Tom once presses on Jake the issue of being part of something big that may well have been the yeerk campaign, you the host help them with something big, see the stars, you don't have to know you're trying to conquer the world because the yeerks could make a convincing argument that they weren't trying to conquer the world, just looking for recruits. If they wanted to conquer the world they'd just do it, they have the technology.

  Visser 3 being a jerk is just a case of having a bad boss, nobody sees him before becoming a controller anyway, those who do, like Tom, become controllers whether they like it or not. But for the majority they're probably offered adventure, a star was/trek like adventure and most kids and young adults would jump for that, I myself if I didn't know there were andalites or anything like that would be all for joining the yeerks, and as others have said if the yeerk in control isn't a total jerk since you can't read the yeerk's mind the less you see of their "bigger scheme" the less reason you'd have to fight.

  Being able to laugh and watch TV in the yeerk pool makes this theory hard to buy but I for one think that's what would have been the reasoning behind a lot of people choosing to be voluntary controllers, and your own yeerk could have explained away the screams if you bought their other lies why not buy this one: The Hork-bajir aren't intelligent, they're like chimps really, semi-sentient, they can't even speak full sentences, don't mind their cages, it's because of how dangerous they are. Screaming humans? Oh well some yeerks abuse their hosts and the hosts don't trust any yeerks after that, but can't be set free and so have to be tragically, contained while their new, nicer yeerk feeds until they realize that the yeerks are friends of humanity . . . speaking of friends, sit down and relax, watch Friends and don't make waves, little human.
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Re: How many of you would be voluntary controllers?
« Reply #78 on: February 10, 2009, 12:31:41 PM »
Yeah, if the Yeerk was nice enough I might have been ok with it. Fly around orbit, and do other stuff. I doubt I'd like the pool, and I definitely wouldn't like V3. Heck, me and my Yeerk might have debates on who was more afraid of the guy.

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Re: How many of you would be voluntary controllers?
« Reply #79 on: February 10, 2009, 01:05:54 PM »
Why is Visser Three's tail blade backwards, anyway? Ax and Elfangor's tailblades pointed forward, but Alloran's tailblade curves back.

Sorry for offtopic-ness.

Maybe some congenital illness...