Animorph book you don't like

[Kern]

IMO the idea put forth in #19 was wonderful. It balanced the series with the moral dilemma of war, and also more clearly shows what we all probably know but sometimes forget - not everyone is the same, or will do/feel the same things, and not everyone is evil even if they are different from you. They're not ALL bad. Everyone has shades of grey. The execution could have been better, though. After all, Karen would be high on the radar as they would want to get to her father. They'd notice if she never went back to the pool... and that's only one reason.

The books with the most idiot plot? #14/Horseland. (maybe #44/Australia as well). Looked like horrible filler material. Thankfully, #15 redeemed it. I loved #15.

No one's mentioned #38 yet?

[yunyun]

I likes #38. Estrid is my favorite Andalite character, and the plot and idea was interesting to me.

[Chad32]

What do you have against 38?

[tobiasfangor95]

A lot of people despised book 38, and book 40 as well. Heck, they despised 39 too.

Book 38 -

The introduction of new Andalites! That's a good thing. Maybe the Animorphs will get allies?
Arbat, Alloran's brother. Sounds interesting, maybe he defeats his brother somehow?
And the other idiot captain? Maybe he interferes with Jake's leadership?
and a FEMALE ANDALITE NAMED ESTRID. Ax has a girlfriend! Oh man, these Andalites are probably going to stay on Earth for a while.

^ That was what I thought when I was a kid reading that book.
But as I kept reading, the whole biological warfare and quantum virus plot kept reminding me of the Hork-Bajir chronicles. Ax and Estrid didn't go too far, obviously, and Arbat and the other guy were disappointments.
That being said, most people didn't like #38 because these three Andalites never made an appearance again.

Same thing with book 40. You have Mertil, the allergic Andalite, and his caregiver Gafinilan. And they're also never mentioned after that.

And book 39... Buffahumans? A buffalo and an ant acquiring the power to morph? A buffalo acquiring Chapman and Alloran?
and the ending....a seagull saved the day.

Oh, and for those who haven't read it? It wasn't an Animorph in seagull morph. It was just a random gull.

[Kern]

Actually, now that I'm beginning to re-read the series, 42 is pretty crap too. The actions by the characters don't make any sense at all.

Why not get Erek to come along with Marco and hold off the stupid dog? Erek's "dad" already held off Rachel in Grizzly mode. He wouldn't have to worry about being seen entering and escaping the apartment either.

Why morph SHARKS, of all animals, in BLOOD? We've seen how crazy sharks are around blood! They go into a feeding frenzy for heaven's sake. See #4 with the whale. Or #15 when Marco cut himself then morphed the shark, and that was a few DROPS of blood. We're talking an ENTIRE blood vessel of blood here.

Damnit, the stupid kid's already seen them, why not just go after him as animals OR humans and just snatch the camera away from him? You can't memory wipe him, the least you can do is take his proof away. Either way, he's seen what he's seen.

[Chad32]

Because blood is liquid, dolphins can't breathe liquid, and trout certainly wouldn't help. What else do they have?

I'm quite certain the authors didn't want to involve side groups any more than they had to. That's why we don't see a whole lot of the Chee, Free Horks, or YPM. There's no in universe reason why they weren't used as often as possible.

[yunyun]

Actually, does anyone get how mini-sharks can survive in blood? I've been really confused over this, since shouldn't the blood cells be at least visible? Maybe even half their size? How are they supposed to breath that?

[Chad32]

Who knows. It's not exactly the most realistically accurate book. willing suspension of disbelief needs to be stretched pretty thin.

[NateSean]

True. If we can have talking whales then sharks breathing in blood shouldn't much more of a stretch. I mean, if we're asking about those kinds of technicalities, how can sharks breath a completely different composition of water on the Leeran homeworld? How did the Anis survive eating whatever food the Arn had on board?

[RYTX]

Actually, does anyone get how mini-sharks can survive in blood? .... How are they supposed to breath that?

Beyond in KASU explanation thread, but my thought is-well first: Maro's blood cells would be comparitively larger, big as the shark lets say, so I don't think they'd be stripping oxygen from the cell.
What may have to happen is they get it from the plasma-which is remarkable akin to sea water, and as a similar oxygen solubility (see 1&2).
My thought on the whole shink ray is not that they resize atoms, rather they alter the space between them (3), I would figure reducing the EM fields or something: everything is closer, making the being small, but allowing them to still interact with external matter (this must be true in a sense, or tiny Anis could not use normal air, period)
How this could happen without destroying the atomic bonds in an organism, I don't know, but that's my base theory.

Need to learn to summon particle physicists



references (think they are right, but can't swear their validity)
1 http://www.nda.ox.ac.uk/wfsa/html/u10/u1003_01.htm
2 http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/oxygen-solubility-water-d_841.html
3 [spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kypne21A0R4[/spoiler]

how can sharks breath a completely different composition of water on the Leeran homeworld?

Since Aniverse seems to use Earth as a life template (e.g. DNA is DNA), it's fair to guess water is water, that water has dissolved oxygen in it-concentrations are open to speculation- but it's capable of sustaining other organic lifeforms: issue won't be breathing so much as salt balance-but that again could be comparable to Earth Marine (likely is give commonalities of life in the series) and even if not, it's feasible a shark could survive for some time in a different ionic environment. Though probably less than happy.

How did the Anis survive eating whatever food the Arn had on board?

Race of master biologists, I'm sure they could cook up some rations that would keep a generalist alive.