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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #30 on: July 28, 2009, 04:38:19 PM »
Hahaha...Visser Three as Tim Curry...which character?  Doctor Frankenfurter? XD

Trash Can Hatred also sounds like a song....it should go to the tune of "Jukebox Hero" by Foreigner...x3

Trash...Can...Hatre d!  That can's on its side /  It's Trash...Can...Hatre d!  .... (It just took one car!) / Trash...Can...Hatre d!  That can's on its side /  It's gonna fly, tonight!

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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #31 on: July 28, 2009, 09:27:57 PM »
Quote from: EscafilDevice on July 28, 2009, 11:00:54 AM
And then he magically goes back to being intelligent and crafty in the Chronicles.

"Oh, but he just evolved over time!"

Yeah, okay.

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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #32 on: July 28, 2009, 10:08:19 PM »
31: The trouble with tom is that he's a bit homicidal.
32: Doublemint comercial gone wrong
33: the insane spoiled brat
34: the exorcism of Cassie who-cant-tell-you-her-last-name

megamorphs 1: Get out on the highway
megamorphs 2: Since when could nuclear explosions send you back in time.
megamorphs 3: Elfangor's secret should have been barried much deeper.
megamorphs 4: Jake screws up...bad.

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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #33 on: July 29, 2009, 12:57:03 PM »
Megamorphs 1: Twister 2: Veleek
Megamorphs 2, 3, and 4: Uhmn... Time Travel Sucks For Everyone Involved.

#1: WOOHOO WE HAVE PLOT!!!
#2: ...Until the plot-bunnies start attacking...
#3: ...and then bird-boy screws us all over...
#4: ...which is totally okay, now, because we have an Andalite!
#5: Wow, Marco's life is obviously gonna' be downhill from here, right?
#6: This entire book is just development of the villain collective. Don't worry, nobody has to die; we just wanna' gross you out a little.
#7: Hello, Ellimist!
#8: Hello, Earth-Diary! Oooh, the refreshing beverage known as 'vinegar'....
#9: Ax pu$$ies out, and you can be sure Alloran isn't happy about it. I MEAN SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE, HOW UN-ANDALITE IS THAT?!?!
#10: Yo yo yo, The Chee are in the HOUSE!! WOOP!
#11: So begins the series-long fascination with illogical time-travel.
#12: Where we discover that a James Van Der Beek-esque media icon is evil, along with the rest of the media. Duhhhh.
#13: HEY, GUYS!! THE PLOT CAME BACK!!!
#14: Yeah, this entire book is just one big joke. At least the punchline is okay.
#15: Another reminder of how downhill Marco's life is going, riiight?
#16: Guess what, the internet is evil, too! Duhhhhhh.
#17: Two to three words: Gleet Bio-Filter. Oh, and oatmeal.
#18: Uhmn... is anybody else getting deja vu with the whole Leerans and badly located Andalites thing?
#19: Cassie pulls a stupid and gets rescued by plot bunnies.
#20: Babe the Blue Box
#21: Dawwww, what a pretty dog on the cover ohwaitthere'sastoryhere!!! *readreadreadread*
#22: Three plotfull books in a row? *gasp* Egad! I don't believe it!
#23: D@mmit. Spoke too soon, so now we've got a zoo and a Visser and a Vader and... whoa, did nobody else notice the odd similarities in those names? *total brain derailment*
#24: Honey, tiny aliens shrunk the kids.
#25: Hey, you'd think that one of these days we'd actually put in the effort to acquire survivable morphs BEFORE we find ourselves at death's door, y'know?
#26: The whole effing team gets rescued by plot bunnies, and jeeze, does NOBODY notice how similar this is to LOTR?
#27: K.A. and her ghosties have an odd fascination with underwaterness.
#28: Mooooo.
#29: Because Cassie is such a superb neurologist and surgeon. *eyeroll*
#30: Marco's third shot at fixing his life, and the first conclusive proof that you just can't have a Marco book without some invertebrate on the cover. :P
#31: Some really short-sighted thinking on everybody's part.
#32: When Rachel goes scizo... or at least moreso than usual.
#33: Torture and Taylor, who never quite makes it into the ranks of major villains, unfortunately. It's kinda' sad that, as unrealistically not-often as the team members get captured, the one time that anything comes of it, the capture was ALLOWED.
#34: Cassie Gets Possessed By An Andalite With Species Issues.
#35: Finally Marco has a vertebrate morph on the cover... and it's a pooodle?! Poor schmuck. :P
#36: Okay, I'm not even gonna' go there.
#37: Rachel, maaaan? *shakes head slowly*
#38: Hey! Get the Hell back here! I want s'more Garatrons!
#39: When Buffa-Humans Attack
#40: A whole book of plot-bunnies. And bees. Woop. Oh, wait... bees are invertebrates, too.... :P

I stop there, because I don't know how willing I am to take the last chunk of the series seriously enough to lampoon any parts of it. :P

Then again...

#54: SOMEBODY likes the Stones....
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #34 on: July 29, 2009, 01:20:43 PM »
*rolls around her bed laughing*

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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #35 on: July 29, 2009, 01:36:50 PM »
That was really nice, Este. I never noticed how many invertebrates Marco morphs on the covers. The poodle and gorilla are the only ones I can think of. And the polar bear.

I think you can tell I didn't really enjoy the last books of the series. I think I just read them once, and never went back to them, because from around the mid forties onwards, my memory gets a bit fuzzy. Even a bit before that.
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #36 on: July 29, 2009, 02:03:44 PM »
There was also the hammerhead shark, but sharks don't even technically have bones, just cartilage, so I count it among his animals-without-proper-backbones.
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #37 on: July 29, 2009, 02:12:17 PM »
But do they still have vertebrae?
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #38 on: July 29, 2009, 08:22:42 PM »
Sharks have vertebrae.  Why did Marco get stuck with 4 arthropod morph covers? 
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #39 on: July 29, 2009, 08:44:44 PM »
When Buffa-Humans Attack.

hahahahaha. +1 for that one, Este.
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #40 on: July 29, 2009, 11:15:14 PM »
1. Here's a pretty good weapon against the Yeerks. I have it here on my ship for no apparent reason other than to drive the plot and cause a huge security risk to my people. Or Pay no attention to that time machine under the construction site.
2.  Rachel morphs a cat, which is kinda a useless morph, but its okay cause this is kinda a useless book.
3. Very misleading cover art
4. Cassies spends 100 plus pages talking about whales, dolphins, and animal stuff with about 10 devoted to actual plot.
5. Marco's life isn't comedic its ironic.
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #41 on: July 30, 2009, 12:50:51 AM »
#53: Because we couldn't stand to leave the cannibals hanging out to dry, even though in the next book we're gonna' slaughter every young reader's favourite heroine and make her loverbird cry on camera.
Alternative Title: The only '3' book that doesn't have Tobias on the cover.

#52: Ax gets a little pithy. FINALLY.

#51: YAY!!! A VERTEBRATE FOR MARCO!!! Oh, and now we know how to travel long-distance, but instead of using geese, which are acutally a MUCH better and better-camouflaged idea, we choose ducks. Heaven save us from our own idiocy, PLEASE.

#50:The book where we offend every disabled person in history and then eventually redeem ourselves to get them off our back, although later the only morpher to die will be one such person.
(later) I guess not everybody loves Ray[mond].

#49: Plot bunnies and another disabled person. Huh. Kinda' funny how right about now Tobias' family is getting rewired, Marco's is falling apart despite his awareness of how it could be fixed, and Rachel and Jakes' families are just about to be shot to Hell. HOW does Cassie escape this mayhem? SERIOUSLY. Are her parents just complete and unattentive morons, or do the Chee work her family overtime?

#48: Oh, Crayak, you big joker, making us read a totally unnecessary book of plotbunnies... er... rats. Plotrats. Seriously, Rachel, just kill the Visser. Ax already wimped out on us, and now we can't even rely on YOU?
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HONOUR. DOES. NOT. WIN. GENOCIDAL. WARS.

#47: Uhmn... Beavers don't work that fast.  :o

#46: There was a rule in here someplace about not morphing sentients, right? Yeah, well... screw that. :)
Alternative Title:
The book that permanently solidified my love for the blue alien boy.

#45: Back to the invertebrates. Oh, phooey.

#44: I have the funny feeling that, if I lived in Australia, this book would rather offend me. Regardless, there is WAY TOO MUCH CASSIEEEEEE.
Alternative title:
Finally something bad happens to Cassie, for once, and she survives it like a pro. Seriously, wtf mate?!

#43: Welcome back, Taylor. One day at tortureland.

#42: The Answer... is Helmacrons? I'm sorry, but K.A.? Dear heart? This is an insult to the number. :P
Alternative title:
Another way aliens can enter your brain without your consent.

#41: Oooh it's time travel again, right? PSYCHE!


Visser: Something interesting, or a last cry to save a dying series? Only time will tell.

Ellimist Chronicles: Well, that was long.

Andalite Chronicles: Well, that was not long enough!

Hork-Bajir Chronicles: Uhmn... I lost count of main characters about when AAAHHHH THERE'S A MONSTER EATING MY LEG!!!

Alternamorphs #1: Hey, kid! Check out how much our lives suck!

Alternamorphs #2: Yeah... you think you're cool... but you're not. You're not one of us. Get out and go home, before we turn you into a rat.

Meet the Stars of Animorphs: Guh... waitaminuteThisIsn'tPlot!
Alternate Title: They don't even look like the cover pics. Blonde Jake? WHAT?!?!


There y'go, folks, because I'm just OCD like that. :)
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #42 on: July 30, 2009, 08:19:05 AM »
2 was not a useless book. It's the book that gives Rachel a solid reason to fight. That being to save families that are broken or torn by the Yeerks. That is her true reason to fight, though it seems they forgot this during the series.
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #43 on: July 30, 2009, 12:42:22 PM »
Character development doesn't further the plot.
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Re: Rename the series!
« Reply #44 on: July 30, 2009, 12:46:05 PM »
True, I guess. Maybe if book 2 was when they first found out Chapman was an important controller, it would be more plot significant. But the first books are all about giving the characters a sence of purpose byond fighting Yeerks just to fight Yeerks.
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