Animorphology

In this episode:

- Title talk

- Visser Three’s method acting

- Yeerk gender

- What does Rachel’s confession mean for the Tobias/Rachel relationship?!?

- Shorms

- Tobias realizes that humans are animals too

- The Council of Animorphology votes on the pocket universe theory

- What is a metaphor…

- Rabbit vision

- Jake is less ruthless than a four-month old

- As always, some 90s moments

The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (part 1)

In this episode:

We share our feelings on Dak & Aldrea’s romance

How important is intelligence, really?

The Andalite patriarchy is not our fave

Hork-Bajir children grow up suspiciously fast

Visser Three is perhaps a nerd

Can you ever go home again?

Gray uncovers all the Animorphs Easter eggs

We have a surprise two-parter!

Book 22: The Solution

In this episode:

What happened to Germany?

David continues to be the worst

The Animorphs find a solution

A fate worse than death?

Rachel and Jake’s relationship

A dramatic reading

Toxic masculinity strikes again

What Would Gray Do?

The importance of solidarity

In this episode:

- The Animorphs face the consequences of a bad decision

- More Animorphs news!

- Now Jenny and Ted can be honest about David

- Cartoon villainy and who counts as people

- Jake’s new confidence and ability to own his flaws

- Jenny boards a new ship

- Racy observations

- Lions

In this episode:

-The blue box is found

-A new Animorph is created

-Marco is truly terrible with people

-Jenny, Ted, and Gray disagree with everyone’s decisions

-We contemplate a world in which Voldemort sided with the Yeerks

-How would this have gone differently if David had been a girl?

-We finally settle the important question of which Animorph is which Clue character

-What's going to happen with the new guy??

In this episode:

- Jenny, Ted, Gray, and guest host Claire closely read The Departure, discussing premise rejection and what we owe to each other

- Why is this one so good, you guys??

- The toll that war is taking on Cassie and the Animorphs

- Cassie’s moral instincts and the imperative to change

- Plot holes and earned happy endings

- Yeerk empathy, society, and gender

- Ableism in character, metaphor and worldbuilding

- Parasite morality, predator morality, android morality, and humanism

In this episode:

Dinosaurs!

Gray has been confidently mispronouncing “deinonychus” for years

Is this the best Rachel book?

Revisiting the Band of Five roles

More time travel philosophy

Outer space provided broccoli and ants

K.A. Applegate keeps up with scientific theories

A song about Deinonychus

In this episode:

Which Animorph is which Disney princess?

Is Animorphs sci fi or magic?

How DOES Visser Three visit the Yeerk Pool?

The debate rages on about Andalite truth;

We rank our favorite (and least favorite) books;

Gray predicts the ending of the series

In this episode:

Another guest star; Ax struggles with his loyalties; Andalite job-hunting advice; Jake attempts to make a joke; and was that really the easiest way to get the group into Z-space?

Content warning this week: we discuss suicide and mental health, drug use and claustrophobia, including references to the highly inappropriate terms this book uses. Please use caution in listening if you need to, and see the episode notes for resources.

In this episode:

Rachel deals with fear

A surprising fact about instant maple-and-ginger oatmeal

Gray holds the Animorphs to a really high standard

A banana party

Visser 3 is uniquely incompetent

Gleet BioFilters

What IS a Planet Hollywood?