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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #30 on: January 14, 2009, 05:10:38 PM »
As I told Esplin:
If the Animorphs from the books came to the TV show, the war would be finished after 5 days and the Yeerks destroyed.
If the Yeerks from the books came to the TV show, the Animorphs would be Controllers or dead after 2 days and Andalite planet after 1 month.

Ha ha, well said. I couldn't agree more.
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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #31 on: January 18, 2009, 01:13:39 PM »
Does anyone else notice how wrong it is that Rachel is a vegetarian in the show? :( A vegetarian?

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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #32 on: January 18, 2009, 01:38:27 PM »
I must have overlooked that. Weird. They also made her the one with claustrophobia. Cassie should be the vegetarian, though I'm not sure if she is in the books.


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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #33 on: January 18, 2009, 01:42:03 PM »
Yea she is.
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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #34 on: January 18, 2009, 02:43:13 PM »
I agree that they should've had writers who actually read the books or had KA be a part of the show. but since neither of those happened we got stuck with a werid subplot(the disk), THE WRONG ANIMALS(DUMBASSES!!!! they didnt even get the right type of hawk for Tobias) Rubber arm wrestling Andalites(very sad) no Taxxon(sadder)

*groan* At the risk of repeating myself over and over from previous threads, I'll correct a common misconception and say, yet again, that the writers were actually very good at adapting for the show. Writing for novels or comics or cartoons is very very different than writing for TV. You imagination has to be tamed. You have to worry about budget concerns, about what kind of special effects can be pulled off, about how big of a scope your story is allowed to work with, and in the case of Animorphs, what kind of animals are available.

Really go back and look at the way the stories were told and the way the dialogue was written on the show. The writers were not at fault for a poor Animorphs show (surprisingly), it was the lack of money that made them alter to what they could deliver on screen. You talk about them not knowing what the books were about, yet most of the episodes focused on their characters and their relationships with each other, their families, friends, etc. We got Elfangor's Hirac Delest (the disc) as an original way to be interpreted on to the TV show. It became Elfangor's legacy to Tobias, a guide for him to help him during the war. Heck, I wish they had done that in the books too. So if you're going to blame anyone for the poor Animorphs show, blame Nickelodeon for not dropping off enough money bags for the show. They're the ones who produced it!

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And how Ax can tell if people are controllers just by looking into their eyes :P

I thought it was hilarious that he knew Jake was a Controller, but only AFTER Jake scratched his ear! XD

Look at that scene again. In book #6, Controller Jake gives a brief shocked/disgusted face when first meeting Ax and then quickly covers it up, but not before Ax catches it. In the TV show, Controller Jake does the exact same thing and Ax catches that too. The rubbing of the ear likely comes from the cause of soreness when Yeerk forces itself through the host's ear. To me, that's a reasonable explanation, and was a good way to pull off that scene.


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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #35 on: January 18, 2009, 06:25:42 PM »
I dont think you can blame everything to the lack of money. Ideas don't cost money, do they? I mean, even on a low budget, you could come up with better stories than they did. If I recal correctly, there was an episode where Marco defeated the yeerks, all by himself.

I get that because of their lack of money, they can't get the right morphs or even morph as often. And I get that the Hork-Bajirs can't show up as often as they should or that taxxons simply cannot exist all together. But still, the stories were pretty lame.  :P

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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #36 on: January 18, 2009, 09:32:56 PM »
marco defeated the yeerks by himself? when was that? or did you mean defeat unarmed human controllers (which isn't very hard)?

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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #37 on: January 18, 2009, 11:15:45 PM »
I missed that episode too. Honestly, I could probably count the number of episodes I did watch on one hand.


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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #38 on: January 18, 2009, 11:30:03 PM »
I didn't miss it (cuz I watched all of them) but I don't recall Marco defeating the yeerks by himself...oh wait, are you talking about the 3-part episode, Face-Off? for some reason, that doesn't come across as "by himself" to me...

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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #39 on: January 18, 2009, 11:45:57 PM »
Tell me what happens, then, please.


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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #40 on: January 19, 2009, 02:50:21 AM »
well there's a basketball match at some high-school or something.
the sharing is gonna be doing some stuff there so the animorphs plan to check it out (and in ax's case, enjoy watching his first basketball match). meanwhile, jake morphs into a lizard and sneaks into tom's backpack, and finds out tom's been carrying the disk the whole time. rachel and cassie get to the place first and morph mice (or rats) and sneak inside and think they see tom giving the disk to chapman (actually it was a soda can) and relay the info to marco and ax when they arrive. tom goes down to the yeerkpool (there's an enterance in the school) and the alarm goes off (because jake is inside tom's backpack), so he tries to switch it off and ends up turning the morphing sensors (morphing sensors?) off, so jake uses the opportunity to demorph (out of sight). tom continues to the pool so he can feed, and chapman uses the opportunity to take the disk and he puts it on a window ledge. then he goes down to the game. jake morphs again and follows tom after the yeerk is done feeding and finds out about the yeerks that don't need kandrona rays (say what?), while ax finds out the disk isn't on chapman. tom traps jake in lizard morph in a room. rachel goes out to find tobias, while tobias finds the disk. when he touches it though, he starts to change. the yeerks' plan is revealed when there's an announcement for a tornado coming and for everyone to go underground (into the yeerk pool). outside, tobias becomes human and elfangor (or a hologram or something) appears before him. and that's the end of the first episode...

the second episode starts with rachel looking outside for tobias and finds him as a human. they need to get back inside so they go in through a yeerk pool entrance tobias found, with rachel morphed as a yeerk from the dna on the disk (don't ask me how). meanwhile, cassie, marco and ax are being led down to the yeerk pool to be infested along with everyone else from the stadium. Tobias and Rachel come across the room jake is trapped in but can't help him yet. they're told to escort some people for infesting. marco, cassie, and ax see tobias, and marco goes over to find out what's going on. tobias and rachel tell him everything so marco goes off to find jake. ax is worrying about his time limit. and so is rachel. tom is talking with visser three, and he can't seem to find the disk. he thinks the andalite (jake) took it, so he goes in. just before he does, jake manages to break the lights so the room is dark. tom goes in, and when the light turns on, we see two toms. that ends episode 2.

episode 3 starts with visser three asking which is the real tom. rachel manages to demorph in time, but they get captured by controllers, so now tobias, rachel, cassie, and ax are trapped in line, and ax is running out of time. over with tom, jake, and v3, a controller has brought a scanner and things are not looking good for jake. luckily, marco has found the controls and somehow made the room where the new yeerks are kept set to boil, killing the yeerks. ax is almost stuck in morph, but in the darkness manages to demorph in time. marco morphs ****roach but gets crushed by a rock. in the end, they all managed to escape and head over to the arcade place they always hand out at. and that's pretty much it...

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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #41 on: January 19, 2009, 03:09:38 AM »
Does anyone else notice how wrong it is that Rachel is a vegetarian in the show? :( A vegetarian?
Rachel isn't Rachel in the show.
The important thing about Rachel in the books is that her mind absolutely doesn't fit to her body. But in the show, it fit very well... she's a stupid useless blond beautiful girl ^^ (PS: sorry for the blond beautiful girls, it's just that in France we have jokes about them... ^^')

And Morfowt, I watched this episode yesterday or the day before... and I saw a biiiiig mistake: Rachel is afraid to be trapped in the Yeerk body... but Tobias doesn't care to be trapped in his Human body... I didn't watch the next episode yet, so I don't know if he stay Human, but he stayed so long in his human body in the last episode, he must be trapped now ^^'
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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #42 on: January 19, 2009, 03:11:49 AM »
I missed that episode too. Honestly, I could probably count the number of episodes I did watch on one hand.

yeah, i think i watched the first 5. don't remember many of them.

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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #43 on: January 19, 2009, 04:42:08 AM »
And Morfowt, I watched this episode yesterday or the day before... and I saw a biiiiig mistake: Rachel is afraid to be trapped in the Yeerk body... but Tobias doesn't care to be trapped in his Human body... I didn't watch the next episode yet, so I don't know if he stay Human, but he stayed so long in his human body in the last episode, he must be trapped now ^^'
in fact no he's not trapped. in a later episode, changes, he morphs and demorphs...although he appears so many times as a human, he might as well be trapped in morph...

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Re: Animorphs the book vs. Animorphs the show
« Reply #44 on: January 19, 2009, 04:59:18 AM »
I missed that episode too. Honestly, I could probably count the number of episodes I did watch on one hand.

yeah, i think i watched the first 5. don't remember many of them.

I'm with Nohensen and Goom. I watched one episode and parts of a couple others on YouTube and decided not to watch anymore. I don't blame them for not having a budget, but for someone with a vivid imagination and a clear picture of the amazing things that Applegate writes about in your mind, the show is a disappoinment.
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