Moran Rereads the Animorphs
Book 5: The Predator
AKA “Marco learns about dramatic irony, the PTSD squad meets the big boss, and we encounter the reason I hate lobsters and think ants are the devil”
Anonymous asked: was reading through your book 4 reread, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Taxxons and Hork Bajir. Especially the 'Taxxons used to be ocean aliens and now they live on land kinda thing'
YEAH LET’S DO THAT. Okay, so, I ended up just doing the Taxxons rather than the Hork-Bajir because…um…this got long, to the shock of everyone, I’m sure. I might do the Hork-Bajir later. But yeah. Okay. I wrote this during Anatomy class over a couple days and then typed it up, so.
ALL RIGHT.
So, let’s start with a quick little recap I like to call Everything We Know About Taxxons.
Moran Rereads the Animorphs
Book 4: The Message
AKA “The PTSD squad gets a sixth member, the first named character gets dismembered, and whales are awesome”
Moran Rereads Animorphs
Book 3: The Encounter
AKA “The first named character attempts suicide and suffers the first breakdown regarding humanity”
wandringaesthetic asked: About the Animorphs only being able to save one person in the first book and you feeling relieved about that: I was, for a good year or so, 98% sure the books were Real and trying to figure our where the local Yeerk pools were. I think the fact that the Animorphs so often lose and/or barely escape with their lives in the first few books (they don't have a real VICTORY until book 7) are what cemented it for me. It felt so much more honest than any fiction I'd been exposed to before that.
Oh my God YES. They…they basically don’t win for six books, and I had never seen that kind of track record in any books, let alone kids’ books. I mean, they get Ax out before the Yeerks can get to him, but even that…the only reason they survive that encounter is because the whales come and save them from being eaten by Visser Three, it is A VERY CLOSE CALL is my point here. And like, that’s upsetting, sure, yeah, very upsetting, the fate of the world is at stake and these THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLDS keep losing fights, but just…someone who was prepared to admit, straight-up, in a kids’ book that sometimes you lose and that’s just how it is? I was fucking blown away.
I am an adult, I cannot be flailing in a public ice cream store about these books, I have work to do.
That being said, NEVER HESITATE TO TALK TO ME ABOUT ANIMORPHS.
Moran Rereads the Animorphs
So turns out we’re doing a post for every single book. Literally why am I like this. Posts will be going here, feel free to block the tag. Spoilers, yadda, yadda.
Book 2: The Visitor
AKA “We get some seriously grim insight on voluntary Controllers, the first bug morph, and probably the reason I hate shrews”
Moran Rereads Animorphs
Listen to me, kiddies. I read these books for the first time when I was SEVEN. (Well, it took me about three years to collect most of them and get to the end, so I read the first half of the series about twelve times by the time I was ten or eleven.) And let me tell you a thing: if you have passed these books up because of the ridiculous covers or because they’re ‘kids’ books’ you need to reevaluate your life. Immediately.
ANYWAY, I found them all for free on the internet (GET THEM HERE) and I’m rereading them/reading them out loud to Adler, because we are actually DISGUSTINGLY domestic. And I was originally planning to comment on them like five at a time, because otherwise I’d have way too many posts, but I wrote like a solid page of things down about the first book alone, so….yeah. I guess books-per-post will be flexible based on how much I say about the book in question. Here be spoilers, obviously. If you don’t want to hear about it, please feel free to block my Animorphs tag, I won’t be offended.
Book 1: The Invasion
AKA “The first named character is murdered, a main character is trapped as a bird, and five kids sign up for a lifetime of PTSD”
