most (ir)/revelant book

[Slushie Man]

Number 9 was far from irrelevant. It's not exactly the most relevant, but it was nowhere NEAR irrelevant.

Edit: Oops, my bad. I mistook Book 9 for Book 8.

Carry on...

[morfowt]

I'd say 39 was irrelevant. half the plot (yeerks being able to track morphing energy) was already done before in MM1.

[Gafrash]

48 would be pretty well up there on the list of irrevelant books. They waste the potential of bringing David back, and make Rachel seem more one dimensional than she should be. She has two sides, dang it!...

Hmmmm. This is true for me, too.
I think it feels that way because it wasn't how all the fans were expecting David's return to be like, through alliance to the Cryak.

But I have to go with The Unexpected. You guys are spot on on the 'cliched' description of DownUnder. 'Cliched' is also the reason I haven't watched that new 'Australia' movie yet. But that's besides the point.
I've never been up north of Australia (where Cassie's venture took place), the descriptions of the landscape I could buy. And, yes, you always hear stories of how vicious those grey kangaroos can be with those hind legs, but I am not sure how the marsupials would perform against the Hork-Bajirs. I would say it was almost daring of KA to portray the animal as a ferocious fighter on a par with the Hork-Bajir-Controllers. And then the boomerangs... I actually laughed. But hey, fiction is fiction here!!! You gotta love that! Heheheh!

PS: In The Mutation the Anis at least succeed in destroying the underwater Bladeship and further saved the Chee's butt. The Unexpected starts and ends with absolutely no point other than Cassie showing she can survive on her own, which was already shown through reading The Sickness, really. TOTAL FILL IN.

...(Oh there is also "the proposal" and the one were the yeerks want to destroy the human will...)

Oh, man, I reckon this book is very important as a series plot and character development-wise.

I would add The Journey. The whole story was a K.A. play on showing the world through microscopic inner body scapes... A bit mind blowing to be conceived. Sharks swimming in blood. Whales corroding in gastric juice. Roaches surviving through organs. Chasing annoying Helmacrons within Marco's body while he tries to retrieve a camera just felt a bit useless to me. I think it is saved by the Yeerk Front Business they succeeded in ruining at the start of the story.

[Chad32]

I thought it was a bit interesting how Marco contracted rabies. Maybe if it had been doen differently. One of the Anis (other than rachel) contracting rabies. Maybe Ax or Jake. Not sure how I would do the plot, but it would be funny if they were captured and infested, then the Yeerks realize he has rabies. The Yeerks in his head forces him to morph, then he somehow gets rescued. Also somehow the rabies helps keept the Yeerk from taking full control or reading his mind.

That might make a good fanfic.

[Toc']

But I have to go with The Unexpected. You guys are spot on on the 'cliched' description of DownUnder. 'Cliched' is also the reason I haven't watched that new 'Australia' movie yet. But that's besides the point.

Ahah, yes but there is Nicole Kidman in it^^
A friend who lives in Melbourne told me the movie was like Australia :
"There is a bit at one end, a little bit at the other and nothing in the middle"
 
Well it seems like a big tourist campaign to attract people in Australia.
But I don't care, i want to see it !

I'd say 39 was irrelevant. half the plot (yeerks being able to track morphing energy) was already done before in MM1.

I totally agree ! I felt this book was a waste (even though it made me cry... Yeah i'm weird ).

The Unexpected starts and ends with absolutely no point other than Cassie showing she can survive on her own, which was already shown through reading The Sickness

Yes, besides the Sickness was awesome :p

As for the proposal... Well ok it was an important book... but the idea of not being able to keep the control over the morphing process (sorry for my bad English) was already used in the 12th book. And I really loved book 12 ^^ contrary to the proposal...

I would add The Journey. The whole story was a K.A. play on showing the world through microscopic inner body scapes... A bit mind blowing to be conceived. Sharks swimming in blood. Whales corroding in gastric juice. Roaches surviving through organs. Chasing annoying Helmacrons within Marco's body while he tries to retrieve a camera just felt a bit useless to me.

It made me think of this series... The magic school bus!!



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By the way Nohensen, what does "rabies" mean??

[SuperBlue]

The only reason the proposal wasn't comepletely irrelevant was because of Peter's wedding and the cliff hanger ending where Visser 1 calls Marco

[AniDragon]

That's true. As I said, the sub-plot was more important than the "main" plot of what the Yeerks were doing.

[Gafrash]

Yeah, fair enough, the main plot and their mission itself were already repetitive. Shut down a celebrity that was endorsing The Sharing and all. And the 'control-loss' in morphing had already been done, too. Granted.
BUT I look at The Proposal (on a par with The Conspiracy, The Experiment, The Separation (even if I think it was badly written), as an important character book. Not just because of Marco's dad's new situation and the way it ended, though those are important in the series.

In The Proposal, we get to see the always funny and purposefully calculating Marco unbalanced by his emotions making him lose control. And a certain irony can be found if you find he reacts not so different to Rachel with this challenge, Rachel, whom he would be the first to pick on for doing something stupid like going on a mission occulting 'morphing problems'.
The story had a lot more happening than Cassie doing a solo in the Outback, or getting captured by a mutated-underwater civilization, or stopping sand-particle creatures from stopping someone's heart for that matter.

See but even thinking about them now, there were bits that I would claim important to the Animorphs Universe.

Ahah, yes but there is Nicole Kidman in it^^
A friend who lives in Melbourne told me the movie was like Australia :
"There is a bit at one end, a little bit at the other and nothing in the middle"
 
Well it seems like a big tourist campaign to attract people in Australia.
But I don't care, i want to see it !

You'd think we were in the 1930's that ways  . But yeah, go watch Kidman and Jackman get CHEEEEESAAAE on Hollywood. :-XHehehehe!

[Toc']

CHEESY !!
THANKS I was looking for that word for dayyys !
CHEESY !!

[Gafrash]

Hihihihihi!
Yell "CHEEEEEEESYYYYY!" everytime an actor says "HOWYAGOIN, MATE?!" or "GODDAY!", "NO WORRIES!" and etc... Heheheh!

[Toc']

oooh OK!
No worries Mate! Oy'll do it^^

"Howyagoin ya old bastard ?!"

[Chad32]

By the way Nohensen, what does "rabies" mean??

Rabies is a disease that messes with the mind. By the time it reaches your brain, it's too late to do anything about it. Symptoms for the disease don't even start showing until it hits the brain, and rabies will kill you once that happens.

That's what I know about it.

[Toc']

  Thanks Nohensen...
Before you told me about the meaning, the word "rabies" reminded me of "rabbit".
It was cuter before ^^

[Patrick Ripoll]

Favorite books was always when aximili enjoyed sticky buns. sticky buns are delicious american treat that I too am enjoying from occasion to time. Book three when Tobias is lovings towards Rachel but shes not loviungs reciprocate was heartbreaking but I did not enjoy the water books because water animals have no legs and are boring.

[goom]

but I did not enjoy the water books because water animals have no legs and are boring.

haha.