Video Camera's in the 1990's

[Terenia]

This will always be one of my biggest pet peeves in regards to Animorphs.

The Animorphs morph and demorph and remorph in a variety of locations, not limited to:

The Gardens, the mall, back alleys, dressing rooms, bathrooms, school, the Yeerk Pool, the Blade Ship, the airport, elevators, the grocery store, office buildings (including the "AOL" headquarters), "Sea World".

Are you saying that NONE of these places utilized security camera's in the 1990's? Visser Three's Blade Ship didn't come equipped with security? The mall didn't have a way to watch out for shoplifters?

Would it have been that much harder to acknowledge the existence of security camera's and have the Ani's avoid them? Was KA being lazy, or would morphing have been impossible if camera's were an issue?

[Chad32]

I never really noticed, but that's a big KASU! Especially in the Blade Ship.

[JFalcon]

Security cameras aren't always on. I'm not kidding, or being sarcastic here, security cameras are sometimes just there for intimidation. I work for a big, evil, faceless corporation (Wal-Mart!) and they expect us working the isles to keep an eye out for shop lifters because only 3 of the many, many cameras in our store are on at any given time. They rotate which cameras they're looking through but yeah, it's not impossible that the Animorphs got lucky with security cameras, just very very improbable.

The blade ship I'll grant as a KASU, but in some [other] cases they might have looked around to make sure ther weren't cameras, or gotten lucky. It's also possible that on the Blade Ship Visser Three chose not to have that kind of technology because of the hard evidence it would provide, proving he was breaking Yeerk law by casually executing subordinates.

[Chad32]

Only a few cameras on at any given time? That's stupid. Do they do that to save on power or something?

[Faerie Larka]

To save money.  Yeah, a lot of places don't even have real cameras.  It'll just be something to make you think someone is watching when really, there isn't anyone.

And, yeah.  It is odd that there were no surveillance cameras anywhere they morphed.  Never noticed it before, though.

[JFalcon]

Only a few cameras on at any given time? That's stupid.

Agreed, but then one must question the value of the cameras at all because I know that at least one of them is almost always focused on the Electronics department, which is the department that gets shoplifted from the most, that said it's also entirely possible that the Animorphs are on video morphing here or there and nobody was specifically there to see it, so nobody noticed because it didn't affect inventory numbers and so no one ever searched the camera logs or some technical thing like that.
Even more likely that the Ellimist inspires camera rotation whenever they're in danger of being caught on film.

[ChimichangaChupacabra]

Bingo.  Real security camera on stores and alleys and bus/train terminals are much more sparse than what you'd expect.  It's a scary thought.

If they were smart about it, they wouldn't be caught.  It's not that far-fetched, really.

[Xan]

Security cameras are easily solved through knocking them out, like in Splinter Cell 

[esplin]

I have never even thought of this, Kinda a major kasu.

[ChimichangaChupacabra]

Except that it's not.

[Lector]

let's suppose they were caught. the odds of the low level kids who look out for the cameras being controllers are not exactly that great. let's say they were caught and one of those kids saw it. the kid probably would have either regarded it as some kind of very well done prank or simply shrugged it off as only we humans can. or let's say there was no one actually lookin at the cams, they were just recording, and since there were no missing items no one thought of checking them.