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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2009, 09:49:40 PM »
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wouldn't that make her less suspicious? She could come and go at sharing meetings as she liked.

No Sharing member is left uninfested indefinitely. Melissa would have eventually been infested after awhile and monitored closely beforehand. There was no need to make her anything more than a minor character.
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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2009, 09:51:38 PM »
Ya know, even if Mellissa wasn't an Animorph, it would've been cool to see her more in the series. Kinda sad that she only showed up, what? Twice, was it?

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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2009, 09:55:39 PM »
Why would that have been cool let alone necessary?

No point in hinting that this minor character was anything more than...minor.
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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2009, 09:57:40 PM »
*shrugs* idk, just thought it woulda been cool  ;D

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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2009, 10:12:28 PM »
The way book 2 played out, made me and possibly many others think Mellissa would become a more prominent character. She wouldn't even need to be an Animorph. She could have just been an ally that helped them, but not neseccarily knowing their identites.


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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2009, 10:41:52 PM »
Well, one question I have is, when is MM3 in relation to the main books?  If it was after David, it would make sense, they might be suspicious.  If it was before David, I don't know.
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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2009, 01:20:21 AM »
im pretty sure it was after the david trilogy
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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2009, 01:53:16 AM »
it was around book 30

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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2009, 02:56:07 AM »
Melissa did have a lot of unused potential. I would have liked to see her used, but after Rachel sits in cat morph comforting Melissa it makes sense that she was never used. For that one book, it wasn't about yeerks versus humans, it was protecting one girl, and making her an ally would have endangered that protection.
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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2009, 12:26:40 PM »
Well, if it was after the David trilogy, then they probably didn't want new animorphs until after they were discovered.
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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #25 on: January 18, 2009, 12:49:02 PM »
They couldn't have made her an Animorph before the David trilogy in any case, since he was the one that brought them the morphing cube.
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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2009, 05:20:39 PM »
True.  So either way, they had a reason not to recruit her.
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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2009, 08:06:12 PM »
The character did have potential to participate more to the series. I always thought if Melissa had been an Animorph she would have felt somewhat at fault for her parents being voluntarily infested and would have fought to free them.
Jake and Marco's relatives were Controllers, but not voluntary, like the Chapmans. It would have been interesting to see how Melissa would have fared amongst them.

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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #28 on: January 18, 2009, 08:08:52 PM »
I think she was in book two. Shorter than Rachel, and a different hair color.


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Re: Melissa Again
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2009, 01:25:04 AM »
i always pictured her as my type of girl. XD
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