Errors In Animorphs series

[Chad32]

I just started re-reading the series from the beginning, and there are tons and tons of errors. One thing that really struck me was this line in book one:

"four Andalites, standing all together, looking like a strange gathering of deer with solemn faces. Two of them looked very small--kids. I realized this was a picture of the Andalite's family." p. 20

couldn't it be that elfangor was one of the children?
that could be his brother and parents!

It could easily be one or the other.

[Shark Akhrrana]

didn't we over this like ages ago?

and Andalites do exagerate

book 9

Ax  about teh Skunk spraying homer. and how he was going to run in panic

[Darth Revan]

<Fascinating,> Ax said. <That is possibly the worst thing I have ever smelled. >

...

<I believe the smell is causing me to become deranged,> Ax said calmly. <I may have to run
away in panic.>

There's no exaggeration here. The first quote, he's very analytic about it, he is commenting that it is one of the foulest smells he's experienced.

The second quote, he's warning others that the smell may cause him to panic.

There're no exaggerations. He is simply stating facts. If you just walked in on a dead body that was left for 2 weeks under a heat lamp soaking in a mixture of excrament and sulfer, you would probably state that that smell is possibly the worst thing you have ever smelled.

No exaggeration.

[Shark Akhrrana]

Him saying he might run in panic is an exaggeration. Or else he would have just done it no need to say it. you don't think you are going to become panicked over something that is already happening. He would have already panicked about it and ran away.

[Darth Revan]

no exaggeration, he was afraid that the odor was causing his mind to become altered, he then stated that in order to keep that from happening, he may have to run in panic. He's very intellegent, analytical, and very proper. He was excusing any future odd behavior.

Sense his mind was not adversly affected, he did not have to run away. If his mind HAD been affected in the way he described (deranged) he would have run away in a panic. He has a different mindset than humans do. You can't assume his thoughts or actions like a normal human being.

[yunyun]

how long do hork bajir live? if less than like 65yrs or so , my way of thinking about the hork bajir wars is they do have wars every 66 yrs but when aldrea showed up and dak was born was between the war time

also jake thought spoke in book 1, maybe only morph capable people can thought speak

[Chad32]

I get the impression that Hork-Bajir don't live really long. Toby was nearly full grown by the end of the series, and species that grow fast tend to have shorter lifespans. I think.

[MoppingBear]

Maturation and aging are two entirely different processes of the body, though I can't imagine the Arn needing them to live that long, and once they realized they couldn't get rid of the seer gene, they probably made them have short lifespans to minimize any damage one might do.

[yunyun]

i'm not sure if these have been mentioned
1) in the HBC, aldrea nods a few times but in AC elfangor didn't get what a nod meant
2)in the beginning of AC elfangor said something sarcastically and wrote "i said sarcastically" but then when Loren uses sarcasm elfangor didn't get it  
3)in 43 it said

"I will break you." It was Taylor's voice again,whispering in my mind. "You can't win."

and

"You'll never know," Taylor said. "You won't know who or what you are when I'm done with you."

i'm not sure about it but i don't remember Taylor saying those things
4)various punctuation errors in various books.mostly <this> when it should have been "this" or reversed

[FATELUVR95]

I was re-reading book 12 The Reaction, and on page 57 in the last real paragraph it says: "On a yacht, huh?" Rachel mused. "He'll probably be lying out in a bathing suit."

[AF_junkie]

One thing that I want to know is, can ax and tobias thought speak in human morph? In book 8 ax claims he can't thought speak when human (which doesn't make since b/c it's a morph) but in book 33 he thought speaks to tobias about the cotton candy he's eating. and in book 49 tobias thought speaks to ax in human morph when they are revealing the truth to cassie's mom. i'm assuming that the other's can thought speak when in morph because they're utilizing the andalite technology which allows them to do so when in morph. And Ax being an andalite should have all the time, tobias should to since he's constantly in morph. i mean if the 2 hour rule still goes, the thought speak rule should too.[/b][/font]

[TobiasMasonPark]

     It's a KASU. Applegate probably changed her mind about the thought speak.
Post Merged: January 18, 2011, 06:55:16 PM     I just read the Decision, and I noticed something about Seagulls...

     According to Ax they have Talons...Yea, he mentions it when demorphing to fight Visser Three. He says something like, "My talons dissolved into the legs of the Andalite" or whatever it was. I literally have the book right here next to me, but I won't bother to write up the actual quote.

     But yea...Seagulls have Talons...

[Chad32]

I was re-reading book 12 The Reaction, and on page 57 in the last real paragraph it says: "On a yacht, huh?" Rachel mused. "He'll probably be lying out in a bathing suit."

What's the error in that?

[FATELUVR95]

It's narrated by Rachel

[TobiasMasonPark]

     I still don't get it...