I kind of enjoyed their version of The Capture actually, great acting from Jake and his twin brother Evil Jake, Rachel does something mildly brave, the Yeerks have the intellect to have security cameras (that . . . don't work?) I mean it was probably the high point of the series except it also contains one of my pet peeve moments in that when the controllers rush to the boiling Yeerk pool they say with the mildest of emotion "the yeerks are dying" I mean there's so much wrong with that line when it comes from a Controller. For starters they're supposed to
be Controllers which means they
are Yeerks, it'd be like someone pointing at a burning building, saying "The humans are dying" and shrugging, show more concern, maybe some rage, don't act like the things in the pool are just your pets, they're your brothers for crying out loud.
Which is a problem the series as a whole had, most of the time the Yeerks didn't act like they were controlling human hosts but rather like they are humans with a serious stick in their . . . ears? I mean they start genetically engineering a batch of Yeerks who don't need Kandrona rays? How does this help the other Yeerks who already do? Why would those Yeerks even allow such Yeerks to exist when the new batch would clearly outperform them and get all the host bodies they themselves want? And don't Yeerks reproduce by fusing three parents together? Why would they be grown in big sacks outside of the Yeerk pool? Even if those were grubs who were taken out of the pool specifically for the experiment why does cutting the sack and spilling them on the floor kill them? Yeerks get exposed to the world outside their hosts ear without dying, Visser Three escapes Alloran's body by crawling across the grass and into a stream after all.
On the whole the Yeerks just weren't very menacing, I mean one of them is stupid enough to argue with a parrot he thinks is an andalite, calling it Andalite in front of witnesses, acting strangely in front of witnesses, and hey, here's a thought, why didn't Visser Three just use Alloran's memory of Andalite culture to determine that the disk was Elfangor's Hirac Dellest if that is indeed what they claimed it was? Why would he keep having scientists experiment on it? And why did they only have one monster arm? I mean seriously, I could be wrong but I believer the same arm that grabs Elfangor is the same arm that goes for the scientist, and is the same Hork-Bajir arm that goes for Jake, and WHY are the Hork-Bajir like pets? Why aren't they controllers too? Why does Visser Three keep two of them in the open guarding his mansion? Why are they yellow? Why do they not have tails? Why does Chapman "release the Hork-Bajir" why were'nt they already on security detail for their Visser? Bah on the Yeerks of the series in general!
The morphs irriated me too, I won't lie, Visser Three spent way too much time in his human morph, Jake morphed Homer a bit too often considering that when he did do so in the books he was usually worried about Tom recognizing him.
Well as much as I hate to stop myself from ranting (oh how I do go on . . .) I don't remember much more right now . . . maybe I blocked the memory
Edit: Also the kids spent way too much time outside of morph considering that they were supposed to be afraid of their identities getting out . . . also Rachel utterly failed to sell me on the whole "warrior princess" thing, and yeah the hawk had its straps, and yeah Marco wasn't Marco-ish, but what really ticked me off was also how easily Ax gets captured and how the Animorphs don't bother to, y'know, morph to save him, just show up as humans which is the dumbest thing in the world if you don't want anyone to know who you are . . . BLARG!
