Animorphology

Alternamorphs #2: The Next Passage

In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, and Gray livestream the second Alternamorphs book

You becomes Youvid

The book makes LOTS of choices we would have liked to make for ourselves

We discover Visser Three’s current form

We want to punch the Ellimist

Gray makes the best choice

The Tri-Rex provides crucial sound effects

The Animorphs cross some major lines

No really, we are all horrified

A surreal ticker-tape parade

The ghostwriters fill some word count

We learn why there was no Alternamorphs 3

#42: The Journey

In this episode:

-Our first long-distance episode, please forgive the questionable audio quality

-Guest host Emily Ellet, the voice of Rachel in the Animorphs audiobooks, shares her Animorphs Journey

-Gray is the Queen of Predictions

-Not enough Rachel and Tobias content

-Did we learn anything from this book?

-Bugs in your nose

-What are the potential themes of this fluffy book?

-Marco x Rachel: Banter Buddies

-Cassie’s method for storing the Escafil device

-The Chee are useless

-A few funny moments

-Rabies: not good, actually

-The more we talk about it, the less sense it makes

-We learn the correct pronunciation of “flaccid” (and hate it)

#41 The Familiar

In this episode:

The two things Ted finds unforgivable

How dreamy is dreamy enough?

Jake’s undefined decision

Spike logic

Is there a Star Trek episode like book 41?

“Middlegrade” violence and horror

Using disability as tragedy

Gray drops knowledge about moonlessness

Jake argues with his subconscious

Taxxons are awesome, horrible, and almost cute

The space goddess Kandrona

The free/dead binary

90s moments

Megamorphs 4: Back to Before

In this episode:

We read the first two chapters in their entirety

With great power comes great responsibility, especially for Jake

The series will eventually end

Cassie’s magic nonsense

Tobias makes sensible decisions and is the best

We are not here to tell you to join a cult

Ax’s sense of humor

Rachel and Marco

How old are the Animorphs here?

Rachel is a BAMF

Cassie and Jake

Lots of 90s references

Gray updates her endgame prediction

Mailbag #3

In this episode:

-Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss questions and comments from listeners

-Visser Three’s potential menagerie

-The limits of Chee nonviolence

-What kind of cyborgs can morph?

-Genocide vs. xenocide

-How would a Taxxon wear a skirt?

-How do Andalites talk at parties?

-The Animorphs’ different styles of manipulation

-Who would the Animorphs play in a musical?

-The definitive Animorphs Villain Ranking

-New theories on why the Yeerks are parasites

-The Council votes in favor of shipping

-How did the Council of Animorphology originally meet?

-How would the Council pair off in a plot-necessitated fake-dating scenario?

-What would Gray's name be if she were Crayak?

-Jenny and Gray imitate the Drode

-Our impression of the ghostwritten books so far

-The Animorphology drinking game

-Gray’s Bingo card

-Our updated book rankings

-Call for listeners to record fake ads for animorphology

Book 40: The Other

In this episode:

- Guest host John!

- Marco brings his best self to a Very Special Episode of the Animorphs

- Bury Your Gay Andantes

- We are desperate to identify shippy Ax/Marco moments

- Subtweeting in real life

- What if Ax met Alan Fangor?

- Jake stands up to Andalites again

- Eating cookies with your hooves

- Spoilers for Jane Eyre

- Marco and Rachel break Gray’s morphing rules together

- The special ops team has bad plans

- Marco’s canonical math ability

- Aughties References

- Can birds watch TV?

- Post-Visser Marco and his cowboy fantasies

- Marco’s canonical understanding of communism

- Bees and their capabili-bees

- The gender bee-nary

- An important BSA

- Gray changes her prediction for the endgame

Book 39: The Hidden

In this episode:

The council is divided on the existence of the buffa-human

Seagull ex machina

How good was this plan to drop an anvil on the helicopter? (Spoiler: it was not even a little bit good)

The rules for giving someone the morphing power

Do simpler minds morph via alternate mechanisms?

Buffa-human did nothing wrong

How much technological empowerment do you have to give a buffalo before it has the rights of a human?

Buffa-human as a Turing test

The wonder of the buffa-andalite

The Animorphs' strategy in this book is so bad. It's just SO bad.

They must be running out of Hork-Bajir by now

Why doesn't Erek just eat the escafil device

Don't worry, Gray, there are still good books left

Book 38: The Arrival

In this episode:

-An Animorphs spy novel

-The Animorphs break-up?

-Jake as a leader

-The real megamorph

-Learning about Andalite society

-Science corner

-Moral quandaries

-Ax has pants feelings

-The Animorphs are really cool

-Misogyny is universal, apparently

-Visser 3 makes a good plan?

-Andalite “humor”

-9th Grade Jenny’s review of 38

Book “37”: The Weakness

In this episode:

What head canon if any can make this book better?

The Animorphs aren’t themselves

“Ew” and “?????”

Complex feelings about hubris, Oedipus and Hamlet

Jenny thinks Tobias and Rachel need to break up

Ted teaches everyone how to do “The Rachel”

Things Jenny almost likes

Animorphology’s three word mantra

The inspector

90s moments

Is this book better than Christine Baranski? (No)

14 year old Jenny reviews Book 37

The council votes on a change to the Animorphs canon

Book 37: The Weakness

In this episode:

Gray, Ted, and Jenny read what is definitely, without a doubt Animorphs book 37. At least, as far as Gray knows.

The Iskoort come back!

The Animorphs meet their fiercest opponent ever

Fun with agency and consent

Would you want to let someone else inside your mind?

Killing in cold blood

The closest we’re going to get to a megamorph

The return of Chee Jenny

The secret hairstyle Jake’s been hiding from us

Mogul invents Space Netflix

RACHEL AND TOBIAS. That is all.