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Book 36: The Mutation
In this episode:
This book is bad, so this episode is short
Visser 3 is very bad at plans
Many unmotivated actions and stupid decisions
The Animorphs meet the Atlanteans
Revenge as a motivation
The ghostwriter knew some things and wanted to tell us about them
Sad makeout time and buddy breathing
Are orcas an exception to the morphing rule?
Gray gets irrationally angry about the orca morph
Tobias saves the day
Some cool descriptions but mostly not
Jenny and Ted make Gray choose what happens in Alternamorphs #1: The First Journey. Watch with live chat replay on YouTube!
Visser (Part 2 of 2)
In this episode:
The Council of Animorphology passes judgment on Vissers 1 and 3
Yeerk torture methods
Yeerk fascism
Yeerk relationships, emotions, familial bonds, and allo/aromanticism
The logistics of Eva’s marriage
Yeerk-host emotional bleed
What if Vissers 1 and 3 infested…each other
Who ends up on the Council of Thirteen?
How to tell Jenny and Gray apart in an emergency
Yeerk death
Are the Ellimist and Crayak each other’s exes?
Humans are the Yeerks' social media addiction
Bonus: Ted and Jenny give Gray an unexpected gift, with help from Joys
Join Jenny, Ted, and Gray live on YouTube this Saturday 1/11/2020 12pm eastern for an interactive reading of Alternamorphs #1: The First Journey.
Visser (Part 1 of 2)
In this episode:
Guest host Joys!
Visser 1 is a magnificent bastard
Are Visser 3’s worst jokes Alloran’s fault?
Marco is great, and has grown so much
V3 continues to be incompetent
Fighting the Animorphs is terrifying
Humanity's strengths and weaknesses
Marco’s mom finally says his name Is this a middle grade book??
The timeline once again makes no sense
The Chronicles books are about interspecies love and kids
The Americans plus brain slavery
The Council of Thirteen
Gray predicts the time matrix
Book 35: The Proposal
In this episode:
We can’t suspend our disbelief about the timeline in this one
The cliffhanger ending is so exciting we have to talk about it right away
What kind of answering machine does Marco’s dad have?
What if the Animorphs was less episodic?
WWWRTD?
Mighty Cassie stages an intervention
Marco takes orders from Jake
How Marco is like Gen Z
“What is a Hanson?”
Why we’re glad this ghostwriter doesn’t come back
Ax is a treasure
The Animorphs as a hockey team
Book 34: The Prophecy
In this episode:
We consider that there might be some plot holes in this one
For example, why was Toby not really a character?
The Arn’s secret evil plan
How has Jake and Marco’s friendship evolved?
Marco is a great lieutenant in this one
Aldrea’s growth or lack of same since HBC
Does Cassie have a moral obligation to let Aldrea stay in her head?
This is super real science, you guys
What if it’s really…an OT4??
The ethics of species choice and species essentialism
Have the morphing rules changed?
Do the Andalites have an empire?
Erek is totally trolling the Animorphs
Book 33: The Illusion
In this episode:
Guest host Lauren returns!
Can there ever be enough Rachel and Tobias?
We’re all a little mad at Rachel
Tobias continues to struggle with where he belongs
Almost most of a good plan
Flashes of Tobias’s life and Elfangor’s memories
Jake’s manipulation
So. Much. Torture.
More about mental health language
We learn more about the Yeerks and the Andalites
What was the Illusion anyway?
Book 32: The Separation
In this episode:
Guest host Meg!
Gray’s live reactions to reading 32
Rachel’s inner turmoil becomes outer turmoil
Is mean Rachel “crazy”?
What would happen if the other Animorphs got split?
We swoon over Tobias and Rachel (no surprise there)
What would happen if the hosts of Animorphology got split? And what if you played board games with them?
Why we love mean Rachel
How the split Rachels each manifest internalized misogyny
Our separation-fueled megamorph and Helmacron theories
When was peak Mary Kate and Ashley
Book 31: The Conspiracy
In this episode:
The Animorphs finally face realistic logistical obstacles
The Yeerks are bad at things
No, but really, the Animorphs give the Yeerks way too much credit
Did Ax really torture Chapman?
Jake’s leadership crisis
The Jake-Marco dynamic
The no-confidence vote
How selfish is each of the Animorphs?
WWII-Animorphs parallels
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