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Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« on: October 16, 2010, 12:46:46 AM »
I've been spending a lot of time this week going through music, so my brain's kind of in that mindset. But I was thinking--if we were to compile the greatest moments in Animorphs, which would make the list?

By "moments" I mean "scenes," not books. XD To go with my music analogy: The book is the album, the scene is the song.

What would you put down as the best moments in the series?

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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2010, 09:56:21 AM »
This is a little what we're doing in http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5154.0, isn't it?
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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2010, 10:15:19 AM »
This is a little what we're doing in http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5154.0, isn't it?
No, soundtrack is 'what songs do you think best go with Animorphs?' This is 'what are your favorite animorphs moments?'
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2010, 10:25:31 AM »
Oh, OK, I understand now^^' Sorry
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2010, 10:35:30 AM »
Oh, OK, I understand now^^' Sorry

's perfectly fine, do you have any favorite moments?
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2010, 11:15:37 AM »
Errrrr... Yeah, of course, but I can't think about any right now, I'm too stressed about my homeworks >_<
I'll post some of my favorite parts another day...
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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2010, 11:31:36 AM »
Errrrr... Yeah, of course, but I can't think about any right now, I'm too stressed about my homeworks >_<
I'll post some of my favorite parts another day...
I feel the same way, I want to do this when I get home from work though.
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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2010, 12:23:53 PM »
Personal list for just awesome moments? So for shining moments for the Animorphs, or really well-written moments in the series?

1. "Ram the Blade Ship". Haters to the left. This is one of my favorite ending lines of all time, because it really ended the series the way I feel like it had to end to be true to the message of the series and the characters. Not to mention, Jake pulling out of his depressed, traumatized shell to make one last ballsy stand for goodness and courage in the face of evil? Crowning Moment, baby.

2. The Rachel and David fork scene in #22. Rachel's books are pretty uneven, but #22 is a home run. It's so upsetting to me. As a kid, up to that point, you kind of look up to Rachel because she loves doing the brave, righteous thing and does it while looking fabulous and being confident throughout. And then this book comes along and our beloved hero Rachel, using no weapons except a common kitchen utensil, has another kid her age on the ground, jamming a fork into his ear, resisting the urge to twist it and make him scream, and is whispering in his ear about how she's going to kill his parents. Ugh. It's the most disturbing scene in the series to me.

3. Tobias takes out an entire cargo ship as a bird in #3. Improbably? Maybe. Lucky? Certainly. But this scene was necessary to establish Tobias as a capable character beyond just their air support. It also comes as the cherry on top to a book where Tobias feels generally useless and hopeless. And yet, it doesn't all end happy - the chapter ends as Price Cut Polly gets shot out of the sky.

4. "Marco, your mother loves you." "I know my mother loves me, Yeerk." in Visser. Marco is so made of win in Visser. The fact that he, at probably 14-15 years old, is making the highest ranking Yeerk off the Council squirm and doubt him is just excellent. The fact that he's shooting down Edriss' attempts to manipulate him, that he then goes on to turn the tables on her, and then pretty much shoots his dream of saving his mom in the face...this little exchange does a great job illustrating why the Visser One storyline worked.

5. "If I give in to fear, it gives everyone permission to give in to fear." in #16. Finally some Jake character development, and probably some of the best in the series until the end. Jake would have stayed pretty static and inscrutable if this scene hadn't happened, and it does a lot to illustrate why the Cassie/Jake relationship works.

6. The conclusion to #26. The only story I can think of in any fandom where I feel like "power of love" works. Also, you have Ax regaining his honor, Jake sassing off Crayak, and the big twist revelation that the Howlers are children and not just heartless killing machines. And also Erek getting a +5 in character depth.

7. Cassie quits in #19. The whole toothbrush scene always freaked me out, but I really loved how her quitting played out wit the others especially. It really put into the light a lot of the stress that they were under, and I felt like we got to learn a bit more about each of the characters based on how they reacted. Also, Rachel's "you just said the world can go to hell so long as you, Cassie, don't end up turning into me"? Epic.

8. Marco's insomnia chapter in #30. Beautifully written, digs deep into the character, and how utterly screwed up is it? This is probably my favorite scene because I'm biased, though it doesn't have the same long-lasting impact on the series that the other ones listed did, but I just love the idea that even at that stage, he's wondering how he'll someday justify himself, not only to immediate people like his dad and Jake, but to history.

9. Ax saves Leera in #18. After half a book of being untrusted, being unsure, and being manipulated...Ax saves a whole freaking planet. Right before he snaps back out of time. Yes, the timing is too-good-to-be-true, but who cares, Ax rocks this book, and this book is awesome. He saves a whole planet. Come on.

10. Rachel's death. The whole scene is just so graceful and dignified for her, and it's especially powerful after she's spent the last thirty-odd books struggling with the violent part of her herself. I still can't read this scene without tearing up. Heck, I still can't think of "you were brave. You were good. You mattered." "Okay. Okay, then." and not feel a little choked up. It was a beautiful send off to a fantastic character.

Tangent, but I was actually making a list of the most disturbing scenes in the series the other night, in honor of Halloween. Here's what me and my friends came up with:

1. The Rachel and David fork scene in #22
2. Marco considers biting a bully's throat out in #15
3. "I made Jenny Lines breathe" in Visser
4. Tobias breaks his beak off during torture in #33
5. Cassie demorphs from termite while still inside the tree in #9
6. "They're not food!" in #43
7. Amnesiac Rachel's fingers emerge from the gore of her grizzly body in MM#1
8. Cassie brushes her teeth until they bleed in #19
9. David stalks Rachel in #22
10. Marco's rage monologue in #10

What we were surprised by while making this list was how disturbing some of these scenes were without necessarily being violent, how many of them were early in the series, and how many of them took place while the kids were in human form. When they're in battle morphs or whatever, it's easy to get caught in the fantasy of animals vs. aliens. But when they're just middle school kids, only a little older than the target age audience for the book, and the war is seeping into their daily life to the point where one of our heroes has another kid on the ground, using a kitchen implement to hurt him, and whispering about how she's going to kill him family...that always creeped me out. And some of the others were just creepy because of the implication of violence; we don't need to see Jenny Lines drown to imagine it, and David doesn't need to act to send that really creepy "I know where you live" message to Rachel. One of the things KA's great at is using the reader's imagination and very little information to give the reader a very cogent picture of how messed up the events in the series are.

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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2010, 12:59:29 PM »
Wow, that's deep. I'm gonna go in the opposite direction and say:

When Ax eats an entire tray of Cinnabon rolls!

"The only great battle to involve oatmeal" (the scene where they dump the oatmeal into the pool)

The time when Cassie first morphs a squirrel [spoiler]Birds! Big birds with nasty claws. All around me.
Wait. There was a nut. Oooh. A nut.
PREDATORS! Alert!
I scampered across the floor. Look left. Look right. Sniff sniff sniff the air.
Oh, yes. Predators. I smelled them. I heard them. Birds. A wolf. A badger.
PREDATORS! RUN RUN RUN!
Oh, wait. Was that a nut? I hopped over to the nut. YES! A chestnut! I seized it in my little
front claws and began immediately to chew a hole in it. Excellent! Wonderful! Chestnut! And
I had it! No one could take it away. Hah hah!
A noise! What?
PREDATORS!
Don't drop the nut! Run with the nut! RUN!
With the nut stuffed into my jaw, I ran.
[/spoiler] (It's a classic example of the instincts taking over)

"GET THAT BUTTERFLY!!!" (when cassie stays in morph as a caterpillar... and later goes shopping)




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« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2010, 01:24:17 PM »
I don't have any favorite moments, but some of them would be when Cassie morphs the caterpillar and plans to stay in that morph forever. Or when Ax was watching a movie and went to get the candy from the kid. Or when Jake and Cassie kiss for the first time.

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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2010, 04:36:31 PM »
fantastic examples, guys.
another one that i liked was the ending of 'the return', with rachel and david.
the ending to book #1 is classic.

Quote from: #1
He didn't say anything. And I guess in my heart I'd known it all along. I just didn't want to admit it.

"Come on, Tobias," I said again. "Morph back."

<Jake . . . >

"Just come on, back to human now, dude. No more flying tonight."

<I hid in the cavern for a while,> he said. <They didn't see me. But I had to stay out of sight
till I could get out. Jake . . . it took too long. Too long. More than two hours.>

I just stared at him. At his laser-focus eyes, at his wicked beak and sharp talons. And at his
wings. At the broad, powerful wings that let him fly.

<I guess this is me from now on,> Tobias said.

I knew there were tears falling down my cheeks, but I didn't care anymore.
<It's okay, Jake. Like you said, we're alive.>

I went to the window and looked up at the stars. Somewhere up there, around one of those
cold, twinkling stars, was the Andalite home world. Somewhere up there was . . . hope.

<They'll come,> Tobias said. <The Andalites will come. And until then . . . >

I nodded and wiped away my tears. "Yeah," I said. "Until then, we fight."

not a huge hit, but i thought it was pretty funny.

Quote from: #49
<l have already made sure, Prince Jake. They
think I am a "pokey man." I have told them I am
an Andalite and am actually quite swift, but they
insist they need to train me.>

i can't recall tobias breaking off his beak in #33. at which point did that happen?

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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2010, 04:47:45 PM »
I'm pretty sure that was while he was being tortured. -_- I might be wrong.

I should probably figure out what my own are. XD

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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2010, 06:00:23 PM »
You're not wrong, I also remember it.
Another disturbing part was when Ax takes a plane and kidnaps a Visser in #46 and says he's gonna destroy the Yeerk Pool if they don't stop the bomb... Killing a few thousands or many millions of people... He did the choice without the other Animorphs, and was ready for it. It was a surprise.
And in the last battle, Visser 1 who kills the new Animorphs and Jake who kills the helpless Yeerks. Both of them killed a lot of people just for... almost nothing. This book shows so much that Jake wasn't the same than in the first book, that he became tough, a little heartless even...
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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2010, 07:12:21 PM »
Nope I thought it was Marco whose beak got torn off when he was in Hork-Bajir morph in that book where Tobias discovers Loren?
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Re: Animorphs - Greatest Hits
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2010, 07:25:17 PM »
That also happened. They were two separate incidents.