Group Re-Read: The Visser Chronicles

[Chad32]

Not usre. She wanted her kids to love her, but was willing to have them infested so she could "make" them love her. In other words, she's nuts. She may have even decided to kill herself.

[anijen21]

I don't remember the specifics, but what was keeping her from shooting visser three's face off? If she
let her biological drive overtake her to protect Darwin at all costs, she would have shot v3 to cause some chaos and hoped that would give Darwin some time to get away.

If not, though, I think she would have just killed him. I'm actually kind of disappointed we never found out exactly what her priorities were.

[MoppingBear]

her son was a controller, and was holding the barrel of the gun to himself.

[Kharina]

Yeah- it specifically says that Darwin was holding the gun so she couldn't spin around and shoot Visser Three.  Darwin was infested at the time- if she did shoot him, they were hoping to rescue the Yeerk, but it was still risky.  Visser One mentions that Visser Three must have frightened Darwin's Yeerk into doing it.

[Chad32]

It would have been safer for the Yeerk if he held the barrel at Darwin's heart.

[Kharina]

It would have been safer for the Yeerk if he held the barrel at Darwin's heart.

He did.  At least I think so- been a little while since I read Visser but I have read it quite a few times

[MoppingBear]

yeah he did, but the host dying is in general dangerous for the yeerk, i think it makes it tough to get out of the head or something.

[anijen21]

Idk if I buy this. I feel like a grown woman could overpower a 10 year old kid.

Then again I have a habit of talking out of my ass on this forum, then rereadkng the
book in question and realizing, "oh yeah, that does
work."

[MoppingBear]

well, that might be why these topics are called "re-read" visser one had had the crap beaten out of her, and the yeerk was less than half a day away from kandrona starvation.  she probably would have had trouble with the 10 year old.

[anijen21]

Ooh siqburn someone showed up to play!

I could site that mother-lifting-car-off-child-surge-of-adrenaline thing, but Edriss was Darwin's mom, not Eva...could the Yeerk conjure the biological means to rescue her son, even though her host's body wasn't related to him?

IDK JUST ANOTHER UNANSWERED DILEMMA IN AN ANIMORPHS BOOK. Business as usual.

[AniDragon]

I think a surge of adrenaline is a surge of adrenaline regardless of biological ties to the one in danger. People have lifted heavy objects off of friends and even strangers, so it's not completely out there that a Yeerk's feelings could trigger it in the host.

[voodooqueen126]

Can you imagine the movie that would've been made (in universe) in the post book 54 world. I mean think of the potential for pathos in the book even in minor characters: think about the tragedy that would've resulted from the death of the Iraqi soldier to his wife and children, Lowenstein a holocaust survivor who laid the foundations for Essam's admiration and capitulation to the human race (and the tragedy to survive all that only to be killed by an alien!) or Jenny Lines who reminds me of Forrest Gumps girlfriend...