Things That Bug

[Dameg]

About the Leeran morph, I'm not sure they kept it. Because they went to Leera from Z-Space and then went back to their body directly... and in the "past", so in fact they lived in 2 places in the same time: on Leera, and on Earth as mosquitoes... It was special, and I'm not sure the Leeran DNA traveled from Leera to Earth and back to the past.

For the Cube, don't forget that it was in the outside, before David found it. How many worms and flies touched it? Good point here, the buffahuman is a KASU too...

[CounterInstinct]

Also, starting from book 1, Jake and the others claim that you need to concentrate to morph, and stopping the concentration stops the morph in between. Jake stopped his Homer morph when he was startled, for instance. I don't think bufallos are capable of concentration. 

[Dameg]

lol Yeah, right ^^
Really, this buffahuman is so... stupid and useless. Never liked this part of the story...

[LisaCharly]

I always assumed the Leerans could turn off their psychic abilities (like humans closing their eyes), because there's no way Visser One would have let a bunch of mind-readers hang out scanning her thoughts with her giant OMGBABIES secret. The idea that it was just because they were morphs was pretty silly.

[Aldrea Hammee]

Here's something that's bugged me for some time. In #54, after Rachel's funeral, Tobias disappears into oblivion, right? Hey! It's awesome that he spent an entire book risking his and his friend's lives to save Loren, and then she's totally forgotten about after #53! I find it really hard to beleive that he NEVER ONCE looked her up. I kind of disagree with Cassie's statement that Rachel was the only person who loved Tobias, too. I think Loren loved him. She put herself in harm's way for him at the end of #49. I think it would have made logical sense for Tobias to at least see how she was doing after the war, but that's just me. She could've been a tie to humanity for him, and she was a crisis center worker, for pete's sake. She could've helped him with his grief.

[Chad32]

You're not the only one to think that. It's very strange to me, but I think I know why it was written like that. The writers used Loren as a plot device. She wasn't supposed to be important. It's really an injustice to both of their characters. Tobias still had Ax and Loren, but abandoned them both because he lost Rachel. I'm sorry, but that's just not right. Of course there's a whole list of things that bug me about the ending.

[Aldrea Hammee]

I suppose they couldn't fit everything into one book and tie up all the loose ends - I mean, they did have to cover the events of three years in the lives of dozens of characters. But Loren WAS important, and it is sad that she gets ditched so unceremoniuously. Eva and Peter also disappear off the face of the Earth, and that annoys me since it's their freaking son doing the "aftermath" chapter. Really, Naomi and Jake's parents are all mentioned in passing, but characters who had much more of an important effect on the story as a whole were just dropped.

[Chad32]

It would have been best if the last book was a Megamorphs book, but I think by that time Applegate was just ready for it to end. She didn't want to do another big Megamorph sized book.

[LisaCharly]

Eva and Peter also disappear off the face of the Earth, and that annoys me since it's their freaking son doing the "aftermath" chapter.

This is my axe to grind, like, forever. This will never stop ticking me off.

[Red]

Tobias still had Ax and Loren, but abandoned them both because he lost Rachel.

Oh, I hadn't thought of it like that! What a plank.

[Aldrea Hammee]

It would have been best if the last book was a Megamorphs book, but I think by that time Applegate was just ready for it to end. She didn't want to do another big Megamorph sized book.

I think #54 should have been two books, myself. The #54 we all know and have an ambivalent relationship with should've discussed the end of the Yeerk war, and then covered the first year after its end in much more depth. Then we would've had room to find out what happened to Loren, Eva, Peter, Chapman, Melissa, the auxiliaries (seriously, if they were all killed, as is probable, how come they didn't get any memorial and are never mentioned again? Jake doesn't feel guilty about them at all?) and anybody else you can think of. We could have 40 or 50 pages of that, instead of 5 pages of Marco going, "Yeah, here's what happened to the main characters and Arbron and Toby. And now, let me go on and on about how rich and famous I am!"

The final book, #55, could then cover the next two years. I also think a really cool and much better ending to the series would be everybody climbing aboard the Rachel, and just leaving it there. As someone said on another thread (or maybe earlier in this one), we get into another story and then are just left hanging.

[CounterInstinct]

Tobias still had Ax and Loren, but abandoned them both because he lost Rachel.

Actually, this is pretty realistic. Loren and Tobias never really had a connection. The latter had amnesia, and the two only had one chance to bond (and it was not even a mother and son thing). There's no real intimacy. They're blood related, but Tobias just realized that, this isn't his family. Rachel and the Animorphs and Ax are.

And to Ax, Andalites give a lot (an understatement) of importance to pride. Maybe Ax didn't want to destroy Tobias's pride by comforting him.

Plus, Rachel was the only thing left keeping Tobias human. Losing that, to the person who he claimed to see as a hero since book 1 (Jake), just made him go nuts. I can relate. Some people just value their significant other more than anything else. More than their world

[Coal Kropotkin]

Also, starting from book 1, Jake and the others claim that you need to concentrate to morph, and stopping the concentration stops the morph in between. Jake stopped his Homer morph when he was startled, for instance. I don't think bufallos are capable of concentration. 

See, I had the same thought about the Buffaman. But it sort of makes sense to me, humans concentrate because we have dozen to hundreds of thoughts roaming around our heads, animals, to include buffaloes, are simpler, so their main thought would be similar to human concentration?

[Galladerotom]

Okay Ax clearly states that the process of morphing freezes DNA, and that it is unfrozen.
This is my main problem with most of the morphing theories, people forget that one bit.

We have no idea what "the one" is.

[Chad32]

I forgot that ax says it freezes.