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Book 30: The Reunion
In this episode:
Marco’s “Clear Bright Line”
Lots of great relationship moments
From where does Marco get his strategic abilities?
Visser One is very cool
The humility of Andalites
Ghostwriter corner
Marco makes bad decisions
Gray makes a number of very specific predictions
In this episode:
What kind of time travel is this and is it the best kind
Wars and soldiers throughout history
Violence and weaponry (and Marvel)
An alien learns about the Holocaust
What counts as “important” history
Crayak’s successful mindgames
Why are the Animorphs so precious about killing people?
Lazy alternate history
Melissa Chapman and OT3s
Jake’s shoe and bicep size
Tokenization
Animorphs height corner
And our pitch for an Animorphs musical
In our second mailbag episode:
We respond to reader questions and comments!
We rerank the books to determine our favorites so far;
Which of the Animorphs has changed the most?
What if Animorphs were written for adults? Or without commercial considerations?
Does the Ellimist wear clothes?
The effect of stable family in the Animorphs' lives;
Where did Rachel and Tobias meet?
Tobias's real name;
If this is all a dream, whose dream is it?
Which Animorph is which Pokemon?
Which Kardashian is Marco?
We've all met David;
What morphs should the Animorphs be using more?
What scifi plots does Gray think the series will use in the future?
We are once again sponsored by some…unusual corporations
Book 29: The Sickness
In this episode:
Guest Host Emily used to play Animorphs in elementary school
Book 19: the Sequel
Gray is irrationally angry
Cassie is a BAMF
Who gets to be the leader if Jake is out of commission?
Yeerks are gross
A brief immunology lesson
Jake/Cassie/Marco OT3?
A Yeerk pyramid scheme
Andalites are the size of ponies or tiny deer
Nice is neat
Book 27: The Exposed
In this episode:
Thematic plot holes
Slaughterhouses are bad but they’re worse in real life
Grazers and hunter gatherers
Sentience, sapience, and free will
Cow corner
Ax gets a TV
The shipping gets out of control
Moses facts(?)
KA Applegate and the hosts reflect on vegetarianism IRL
Jenny crowns the new tallest Animorph
Book 27: The Exposed
In this episode:
We evaluate Rachel and Tobias’s banter;
Rachel’s issues with violence and normalcy;
How are the ghostwriters affecting character dynamics?
How are the Animorphs still alive??
The Drode’s true motivations;
Some more gross morphs (even Jenny thought so)
What was really going on with Pemalite nonviolence?
Some high-quality funny adventures;
How does the acquiring trance work?
Book 26: The Attack
In this episode:
The Animorphology council decides: Crayak rhymes with Kayak
Small things that matter
Created species and symbiotes
The Iskoort are v. annoying
How much are the Ellimist and Crayak interfering?
More about the Howlers
Jake <3 Cassie
Marco gets gutted
The Chee’s moral obligations
Jake’s leadership
In this episode:
Jenny, Ted, Gray, and guest Kevin discuss the first ghostwritten book in the Animorphs series
Minor character revelations such as Ax developing a true sense of humor and Marco acknowledging Rachel/Tobias
Effective coping strategies as the war escalates
How many damsels Rachel has
Chlorine-based life forms
Being really cold and being warm again
In this episode:
HBC through the lens of post-colonial theory
Why didn’t the Andalites build a quantum virus to infect the Yeerks?
Yeerks probably had more culture once
It turns out we have more to say about intelligence
The Hork-Bajir home world is really cool
How big is an Andalite, really?
A letter from a fifteen-year-old to his nine-year-old self
Book 24: The Suspicion
In this episode:
Another guest host: Rena
Helmacrons are very silly (as is this book)
What does Marco need in a partner?
Lots of description of items at a large scale, some of which make sense
Science corner!
Lots of different whales
Helmacron technology
Everyone go get a ruler and see how big 1/16 of an inch is
Math happens
Godzilla anteaters
Can Andalites grow mustaches?
Ted’s favorite prediction so far
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