What do you wish the Animorphs series had done?

[Jadedkoi]

Okay, so we've taken the first step and identified that we're all hopeless fangirls/fanboys for Animorphs. So is there anything, any scenario, any situation, that you which had been brought up or expanded upon in the series?

I always thought that once the "OMFG! Oatmeal is an addictive crazypaste drug for yeerks!" Thing was mentioned it should have been a recurring background motif in the series that worsened as the war went on. I mean, come on! Controllers randomly starting to go crazy and rant and rave in the steets? It's such a great way to explore yet more moral ambiguity. Shame, KAA. That would've been awesome.

One more, then you guys get to it: In the Post-War world I always wondered what would happen to the voluntaries. You've got a world that is more paranoid now about the future threat of any alien invasion and you also just have plain old human hatred and violence and inability to be tolerant. I could most definitely conceivably see some of the more prominent voluntaries being lynched right after the war ended, espescially by people who were tricked or dragged into slavery. I imagine that those that were would want to fade into the background and not make waves.
It's also an interesting study int the psyche of an individual that would choose servitude to a greater (and evil) cause over dealing with their own lives.

[Chad32]

I think it's probably safe to say that some terrorist act were against voluntaries.

David becoming a major villain to fight the anis and Yeerks, starting as early as book 27.

More done with the YPM and Auxilaries.

Toby and Aftran becoming greater characters. Inclusion into the team would have been cool.

Some continuance in the internet site mentioned in book 16. Yeah, it was started by V3's twin, but after he disappeared, you'd figure people would still be using it.

[Seryna]

I always thought that once the "OMFG! Oatmeal is an addictive crazypaste drug for yeerks!" Thing was mentioned it should have been a recurring background motif in the series that worsened as the war went on. I mean, come on! Controllers randomly starting to go crazy and rant and rave in the steets? It's such a great way to explore yet more moral ambiguity. Shame, KAA.

I always thought that was avoided because of the human controllers fates- if the Yeerk went crazy, the human hosts weren't much better off. They couldn't be allowed to be freed.

I always wondered why it took so long to start recruiting.  The biggest problem they had was always being outnumbered or taken by surprise.  If they had hidden the Blue Cube, made a play to rescue some people from the Yeerk pool (or kidnap them before they went in and forcing or killing the yeerk) and allow the freed Controllers the choice to join them.  After all, the Controllers lives were already ruined.

[Jadedkoi]

I always thought that once the "OMFG! Oatmeal is an addictive crazypaste drug for yeerks!" Thing was mentioned it should have been a recurring background motif in the series that worsened as the war went on. I mean, come on! Controllers randomly starting to go crazy and rant and rave in the steets? It's such a great way to explore yet more moral ambiguity. Shame, KAA.

I always thought that was avoided because of the human controllers fates- if the Yeerk went crazy, the human hosts weren't much better off. They couldn't be allowed to be freed.

*shrugs* yeah, but look how it was portrayed in #17 - a very clear comparison is made to "humans and their drugs" with the oatmeal, and it's obvious that once a controller starts eating the stuff it gets addictive fast. So why do jake &co.  never encounter another addict? Why isn't it at least mentioned that *something* is being done to prevent oatmeal addiction?

I always wondered why it took so long to start recruiting.  The biggest problem they had was always being outnumbered or taken by surprise.  If they had hidden the Blue Cube, made a play to rescue some people from the Yeerk pool (or kidnap them before they went in and forcing or killing the yeerk) and allow the freed Controllers the choice to join them.  After all, the Controllers lives were already ruined.

good point. Most of that was fear of another David or someone worse I suppose.

[JFalcon]

I strongly agree that more could have and should have been done with Aftran, the Yeerk Peace Movement and the Auxiliaries.

And I agree the oatmeal thing shouldn't have just been throw naway when they were finished with it.

I also feel like it would have been nice to see the Andalites do something about earth beyond mourn Elfangor. If that group of undesireables can make the trip to and from earth why not at least a real commando squad? Why don't the Andalites that do show up or are already stranded on earth do more/anything respectively to stop the Yeerks? Other than Ax obviously, the Andalites act like the war on earth doesnt matter, but what other class 5 species do we hear of the Yeerks trying to take (besides the Anati if indeed they were even a species) the Andalites don't even consider going there to avenge the Galaxy Tree, they just seem to say "Oh, well there's a cadet and some human youths, it's probably fine."

This bothered me, those two Andalites who's names I refuse to waste the brain cells remembering (out of contempt) were content to live on earth and let the Yeerks take over, even sell out the Animorphs, those other four show up and do what? Snipe a couple hork-bajir and crash a ship? The Andalites main excuse for not defending earth at all (never mind properly, I'm going for "at all" once Galaxy Tree went down it's like they said "screw it, we lost Elfangor, that place is too rough") was that the trip would take a long time, that went out the window Ax's girlfriend showed up in 38 (I think?), granted that was more than halfway through the series, do you really mean to tell me that when they can muster thirty dome ships around the homeworld in addition to the homeworld garrison which Ax mentions at one point as being large, and in addition to the garrison occupying the Yeerk world, they can't send a single infiltrator with a commando squad, and the mere idea of sending a portion of that to Earth instead of all of it to Anati is totally beyond them?

Some allies. 

[dolphin4077]

I wish the Animorphs could have had a direct confrontation with the Council of Thirteen. 

[Galladerotom]

I wish the Animorphs could have had a direct confrontation with the Council of Thirteen. 

No. That is going overboard.

They defiantly should have done more with the auxiliary animorphs. They should have had another book where James and some of the others were narrators.

[ThinkAgain]

They defiantly should have done more with the auxiliary animorphs. They should have had another book where James and some of the others were narrators.

Not as part of the main series though, they weren't "Inner Circle" enough for that. I could definitely see them as a really good chronicles though, which each chapter rotating because some of the important auxiliaries.

[Shock]

better ending?

[anijen21]

Some allies. 

I know, right?

[EmberGryphon]

*laughs* The oatmeal thing is really just one of several plotlines I really feel shouldn't have been so neatly tied up at the end of the book. =/

But really, what I'd really have liked to see would be more Yeerk hosts than just Hork Bajir/Taxxon/Human. Gedd, apparently, don't go to Earth, for some reason they stop using their Leeran hosts right after they're defeated on Leera (didn't they have some that weren't on the planet when they lost? I know some of them went to Earth for a short time.), I'd have loved to see more Garatrons (not many, just for the occassional high-ranking sub-Visser or something like that), and we never see Nahara, Sstram, Mak, or Ongachic. Plus, according to #14 (?), they can infest animals. So more shark-Controllers, or other animal-Controllers, would have been rad.

Or, at the very least, different. ^^

[Chad32]

I think the only time Gedds are seen on Earth is in book five. Which I assume are the small wrinkly ones. I could be wrong, though.

[Jadedkoi]

But really, what I'd really have liked to see would be more Yeerk hosts than just Hork Bajir/Taxxon/Human. Gedd, apparently, don't go to Earth, for some reason they stop using their Leeran hosts right after they're defeated on Leera (didn't they have some that weren't on the planet when they lost? I know some of them went to Earth for a short time.), I'd have loved to see more Garatrons (not many, just for the occassional high-ranking sub-Visser or something like that), and we never see Nahara, Sstram, Mak, or Ongachic. Plus, according to #14 (?), they can infest animals. So more shark-Controllers, or other animal-Controllers, would have been rad.

Or, at the very least, different. ^^

I'd have loved to see more of the Yeerk Invasion on other planets, Like for the Anati. More exposition into the workings of the Council of 13 would have been rad too. I mean, the Yeerks are basically looking to conquer the galaxy at the very least.

I like to be optomistic and say that the Yeerks probably needed their leeran-controllers for the Anati invasion (since it failed). that's all pure speculation and wishing, though.

[Chad32]

Does anyone think the Animorphs should have run into Tom more during battles? It's one thing to be shot at by a random Human controller. It's another to be shot at by someone you know. Chapman as well.

[Shark Akhrrana]

I think they should have given Toby morphing powers ..don't think they did. She would have been a great addition to the team