Would you have liked to have seen Erek King narrate a book or section?

[Yorick Brown]

Now that I think of it, I really would have liked to have known what a milleniums-old android has seen and heard and feels.

Does he long to be flesh and blood like everyone else? Is he tired of seeing friends age and die all around?

[wotw2112]

I have to go with no on this one.  Why?  Not sure.  But still a definite no.

[esplin]

id like to see how KA would have handled that, it could have been interesting.

but, id also have to agree with wotw, there's something that says android could be annoying or something

[musicman88]

Sure, why not?  It's always nice to get a different perspective on something.

[XenomorphLV426]

But wouldn't we know exactly how the book would play out without even reading it?  It'd be another violence-centered plot piece, with Erek booing and hooing and annoying Marco and giving Cassie a big pat on the back.

We've seen it all in books #10 and #26, and we know his backstory.  Erek's just exposition, nothing more.

[Toby Hamee]

Sure I'd like to hear his point of view, if not just for maybe one book.

Can you guys imagine how bored Erek will, er would have been, after the Animorphs grew up and moved on and the war was no longer happening. Seriously, what would he do with all that time? He would be so bored without them.... if an android is capable of bordom??  ???

[AniDragon]

I'm sure they find ways to pass the time. I mean, he HAS been on earth since the pyramids were build.

[Starsword]

A Pemalites Chronicle viewing the downfall of the Chee would have been sweet.

[XenomorphLV426]

Why?  We've seen it?  The only story there is a bunch of Howlers emerging from Z-Space and killing and killing and killing some more, the Pemalites loading up all of their tin cans in a spaceship and flying off into the sunset crying.

That can all be told in the two or three chapters we got in book 10.  Don't need any more depth or specificity. 

[Starsword]

Thats pretty narrow minded, don't you think the Chee ever did anything to prevent their fate?

[XenomorphLV426]

Uh, no.  They didn't.  Or at least not until there were too few of them left to matter.

Marco was always right about the Pemalites being idiots.  Technologically brilliant, but idiots.

[Liz]

Erek is one of my favorite characters, but I can't imagine a section/book narrated by him adding much of anything new or interesting to the story.

[Kitulean]

Xeno..... What you're saying is the equivalent of someone going 'The American colonies rebelled against England, eventually won, and established the United States. What else is there to know?' It just shows an extreme lack of thinking about possibilities. It's like, before Andalite Chronicles came out you could have said 'Elfangor was an andalite prince that crashed on earth and gave the animorphs their power. What else is there to know?' And you would have been wrong about that too.

Erek has lived for hundreds of years. I can't see anything from his point of view NOT being interesting.

[XenomorphLV426]

Oh, Erek's time on Earth I'd agree completely.  That's a book, right there.

But the Howler invasion?  It's just a couple of weeks/months of Howlers slaying millions of Pemalites in any creative way they can think of, and the Pemalites finally deciding "hey, let's leave".  Then bundling all of their pet robots into a ship and flying away.  Oops, they used a bio-bomb on us before we left.  *cough splurt die*

That's it.  That's the entire story on the Pemalite planet.  There's nothing else there, and we already know how it happened.

But Erek's escapades on Earth?  Sure, that's a Chronicles book.  Just nothing before they landed.

[Liz]

Erek has lived for hundreds of years. I can't see anything from his point of view NOT being interesting.

Yeah, I worded that badly.  I meant that it would be interesting, but not that relevant to the plot as a whole.  It'd be mostly stuff about Erek building pyramids or whatever, wouldn't it?  The Yeerk invasion started pretty recently from the point of view of the books, so Erek wouldn't have been involved for very long.