Stupidest Things the Animorphs Have Ever Done

[TobiasMasonPark]

     I didn't think it was stupid at all.
Post Merged: February 23, 2011, 02:07:46 PM     I didn't think it was stupid at all.

[Nar Klawip]

Giving david the morphing power was pretty dumb, although the alternative was to kill him, so... yeah.

Listening to Marco and going out to that nuclear submarine in Megamorphs 2.

[Chad32]

I'd say the way they handled things after giving David the morphing power was stupider than actually giving it to him. Or Tobias waiting to tell Jake instead of just taking the cube when he could.

[ThinkAgain]

Jake sending Rachel alone to kill Tom. There was no real point to it. Tom died, everyone knew going in that Rachel would die and most of the yeerks would survive and escape, making it useless short of revenge against Tom's yeerk at the expense of Tom himself. Which opens a new can of worms in of itself by rendering moot the point of Cassie's blocking of him from taking the cube much earlier.

I feel that the only reason "giving" the yeerks the cube worked out in the end was because of plot convenience. It was too messy. I believe that they would've figured out they could help the taxxons and eventually peaceful yeerks the same way. I mean, they did it for Aftran much, much earlier.

Actually, the fact that they didn't think to turn YPM yeerks into nothlits right after helping Aftran seems pretty dumb come to think of it.

[Chad32]

It was plot convenience. It should have turned out terribly, but it didn't because Cassie did it. If cassie does it, it will turn out for the better.

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Maybe Jake should have killed Tom...

[Darth Zakryn]

One REALLY stupid thing Ax did was wait RIGHT UNTIL THE MISSION IS ABOUT TO BE PULLED OFF before asking what oatmeal was. Poparena said it best.

[Blazing Angel]

About that "running into battle with only one andalite" thing. In a book (i dont remember which) they were talking about how they assumed that was a kind of "banner" like in those really old war movies some poor sucker is carrying the nations flag. The andalite was assumed a pride thing and the rest were used for their own specific abilities that an andalite couldn't bring in. 

[Chad32]

I think that was something the Yeerks talked about, so it wouldn't be stupid on the part of the Animorphs. Unless you mean them not all going in as Andalites. Of course until late in the series the only way they could do that is if they morphed Ax and went in as several identical clones. That wouldn't have worked.

[Blazing Angel]

How about recruiting a bunch of disabled kids? I know they needed troops but what if they were hosts before they became crippled.

[Chad32]

Then the Yeerks would have killed or abandoned them. They needed a lot of people, fast, and choosing people the Yeerks would deem defective was actually a good idea. Unfortunately most problems weren't fixed by morphing, so that was one flaw in the plan.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Actually, I agree that choosing disabled kids was a pretty dumb idea.  Anyone remember Taylor?  She was offered the chance to become a controller specifically BECAUSE she was disabled.  Granted, the Yeerks fixed her disability, but that still goes to disprove the idea that Yeerks won't touch disabled people.

[Chad32]

You have a point there. Seems they will take a disabled person and fix him/her if the host will be voluntary. I guess they have priorities. Voluntaries over defects.

But what would have been a better idea in a short time. Of course recruiting and screening people starting when they first got the box back would be a good idea, but there wouldn't be time for that in book 50.

[TobiasMasonPark]

     There's a difference between being severely burnt and being disabled.

     The Auxiliaries was, in my opinion, a great plan at the time. Obviously, the Yeerks were caught off guard when the warehouse was suddenly raided by, not six, but twenty or so Animorphs. But I think the reason things didn't work out was because the original Animorphs were pretty much using them as scape goats.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Say what you will about the Auxiliaries being a desperate measure that the Animorphs had to take, the risk of one of them being a controller really should have outweighed the benefit they gave, and the Animorphs were darned lucky that that wasn't the case.

Just imagine that for a second, if the Animorphs had been wrong and one of the Auxiliaries was a controller.  An Auxiliary as a controller would have been able to pass completely undetected, because the Animorphs didn't know any of them well enough to be able to tell if one was acting funny, and the other Auxiliaries didn't know enough about the behavior of controllers to have been able to know what was wrong, either.  And that one controller would be trusted enough by the other Auxiliaries to very easily be able to start making them into controllers without anybody catching on.  Once they were all taken, with that many people who were that close to the Animorphs, it's entirely possible that they would have had the strength of numbers (and the element of surprise) needed to take on the Animorphs and win.

Game over.

There's a difference between being severely burnt and being disabled.

One of Taylor's arms was replaced, which leads me to assume that that arm was either lost in the fire or at least severely damaged.  I'd call that being disabled.