It amazes me how much the Animorphs improved over the series.

[Chad32]

I think the most believable explanation is that the Yeerks and Hork-Bajir just aren't the cream of the crop. However the blue bands are supposed to be the best of the best and they didn't last much longer either.

I think there should have been more humans and less horks. Horks are supposed to be low in numbers, which is why they're a class three host species, so why are there that many horks stationed on earth at all? How many shock troops do you really need to conduct an infiltration?

[adeon222]

I agree with Aluminator and Duff... As far as the experience and reaction times ideas...

Also, Tobias? I mean, what are you thinking? (especially with all of his whining about not being able to be more involved with the team before he got his morphing power back...) He's still a hawk 90% of the time in battle, and when he's not, the best he can come up with is Hork Bajir, which they already know to be inferior to their own (exagerated or not) Earth animals...

Honestly, I understand that they each had to have their own animal, but couldn't he have gotten a tiger morph and done as much damage as Jake? or some other high powered morph?

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Or maybe the Ellimist could have stepped in to arbitrarily give Tobias a pterodactyl morph. Let's see a Hork-Bajir do something about that. 

[adeon222]

"Gafrash! What is that thing???"
"It looks kind of like you, with wings, Garval!"
Tobias: < It's butt-kicking time, boys and girls!>

[Uza-chan]

Maybe the blue bands were just a bluff. All the looks with none of the power 

[MoppingBear]

tobias loved flying and being a hawk too much to morph when he didnt absolutely need to.  he was also probably paranoid about getting trapped in morph again.

[Kitulean]

Tobias also didn't tend to **** about not being able to help fight, but rather not being able to INFILTRATE when everyone needed to be bugs or whatnot. When everyone needed to be one certain thing or size, he couldn't participate. That's what he mostly ****ed about, as far as that goes.

Also, you guys seem to be talking like the books would have been better if they had lost constantly throughout the series instead of gradually getting better. It's a fictional series, you're supposed to have SOME suspension of disbelief.

Animals CAN be that powerful, try asking anyone who's actually been attacked by one or seen an attack. And the only advantage we as human's have is our ability to REASON and THINK, so give that ability to something with that power, and yes, I can see what happened.

[.: Asmo]

Yes, I've seen what animals can do. Never attacked by one thankfully.

Yet Hork-Bajir seem to out do most of all the animals on Earth. What we need to be able to do is get that simulator program that Animal Planet / or Discovery Channel used to simulate different animals against each other.

And I'm still a little irked about Esplin 9466 not being able to kill the Animorphs quicker in his viscous morphs that would annihilate anything else on Earth. Too much gloating. Not enough killing / wounding / maiming.

[adeon222]

V3 was a little... cliche villain... at times... But I think that a lot of times it made sense that they escaped him... I mean, some of his morphs were dangerous, to be sure... but many had limited capabilities, size and speed... which made it more likely for them to escape him... (if they never killed him...)

[.: Asmo]

A lot of the times Esplin 9466 had them in his clutches in one of his various morphs, and somehow he would act the cliche villain and they would escape.

While I know it was a teen series at the time, so reality was thrown out the window when it came to the Animorphs dying until the end of the series when the fans were growing up.

[Axeme]

Tobias' battle morphs actually makes sense. While the main action is happening on the ground, Tobias can just scan from the air and pick off HB's by raking their faces, thus allowing the animorphs to attack from 2 fronts.

I also used to think most of the morphs were really dumb, especially Cassie going Wolf. To some extent, I still do. But I can understand that a diversity of different combat skills is probably more effective if they are working as an effective team. There was that battle when they all went Polar and that didn't turn out so well.

[Shark Akhrrana]

While I know it was a teen series at the time, so reality was thrown out the window when it came to the Animorphs dying until the end of the series when the fans were growing up.

I agree i am sure that it had to do with the fact it as teh series went along the characters became more fictional to us because we were growing up. yet at the same time. The situations became more realistic so that our growing minds can enjoy teh story more. but who knows i may just be saying random stuff. XD