Animorphs: the TV show

[The Nothingness]

I read several but not all of the main series however the main plot was not lost on me when I read last one. One my favorites was The Hork-Bajir Chronicles. It had a lot of adult themes for a YA book series and strong characters. One thing these series did not shy from depicting the shades of grey especially with aforementioned book. The Andalites were not the straight-up "good guy" alien race. Only the males were allowed to be in the military while females would be scientists.

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Also they engineered a biological weapon to wipe out the Hork-Bajir species so that the latter would not be enslaved by the Yeerks. A lot of dark shit in this series but this has to take the cake.

The TV show suffered from its limited budget, which resulted in the characters of Ax and Visser Three mainly being in their human morphs for most of their appearances. Perhaps with higher budget a streaming platform like Netflix or Amazon Prime could make a more accurate show to the series.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I'm wondering how they would have handled the end of the series regarding

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Rachel's death, Jake's PTSD, Tobias basically giving up on life, the dissolving of their friendship ect...

It was some heavy stuff for a series aimed at middle school kids. Probably the first book series where I really started to care about the characters.

Except Cassie. Fuck that preachy, fence sitting bitch.

Cassie is the only one who got what could be considered a happy ending, what with Rachel dying, Tobias going full hawk, Jake miserable, Marco rich but kinda just going through life...and then Ax got borg’ed and everyone but Cassie goes to rescue him and we’re left assuming they all die when they go to ram the ship of the thing that assimilated Ax is in.

Seriously, I’m still bitter about the ending.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Wasn't Iceman on this show

 

[PL 001]

Wasn't Iceman on this show

Yeah, he played Jake.

 

[FF 215]

I just came back to say that I also hate Cassie. And Rachel and Tobias are OTP

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

I just came back to say that I also hate Cassie. And Rachel and Tobias are OTP

Wasn’t Cassie the Lisa Simpson of the series?

 

[Crichax]

Wasn’t Cassie the Lisa Simpson of the series?

Cassie was awesome, and nicely contrasted with the rest of the team.

 

[PL 001]

Wasn’t Cassie the Lisa Simpson of the series?

She was a fence sitter, a "pacifist" but completely willing to let her friends kill, including her best friend Rachel who started to become the team anti-hero and develop psychological issues. She was willing to reveal their identities to Yeerks on a gamble, and if she lost that bet would have exposed them and their families. Crichax might have his/her reasons for liking her, but I thought she was a liability, an idealist and not particularly intelligent.

Incidentally, my favorite character was Marco.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

She was willing to reveal their identities to Yeerks on a gamble, and if she lost that bet would have exposed them and their families. Crichax might have his/her reasons for liking her, but I thought she was a liability, an idealist and not particularly intelligent.

Sounds like she was a doxxer before being a doxxer was cool

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Tobias was always my favorite.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Oh my god.... I had completely forgotten there was a show. I must have blocked it out of my memory for some reason and now remembering it all of a sudden my asshole has finally unclenched.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Cassie is the only one who got what could be considered a happy ending, what with Rachel dying, Tobias going full hawk, Jake miserable, Marco rich but kinda just going through life...and then Ax got borg’ed and everyone but Cassie goes to rescue him and we’re left assuming they all die when they go to ram the ship of the thing that assimilated Ax is in.

Seriously, I’m still bitter about the ending.

Okay, I had a few of the books growing up but I never got into the series, but this ending suuuuucks. I know people are saying these books were darker than your usual kids' books, but this is just ridiculous.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Okay, I had a few of the books growing up but I never got into the series, but this ending suuuuucks. I know people are saying these books were darker than your usual kids' books, but this is just ridiculous.

A big part of the overall theme in the books was “no one is innocent in war”. Unfortunately, with the ending they went with, it kinda came across as “no one who fought in war deserve to be happy ever, except for the one person who felt really bad about it the whole time and never liked doing it”.

 

[オウム]

Damn these books sound deep, too bad my in-born furry aversion put me off then due to the covers as a kid.

 

[FF 215]

Cassie was a Yeerk sympathizer and should have been shunned. They only kept her around as a team medic and because Jake wanted to bone her.

 

[JohnDoe]

Cassie was a Yeerk sympathizer and should have been shunned. They only kept her around as a team medic and because Jake wanted to bone her.

Hard agree. Cassie was a mistake, and Rachel couldn't handle the pressures. Crazy how even when they morph into the strongest animals, human females are still the weaker sex.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I actually really liked Rachel’s arc through the whole series. Starts off as kinda a shallow shopohlic girl, fully embraces the gurilla fighters raging an unseen war, starts to become too into the fighting and killing but has just enough self-awareness to keep herself from going completely kill happy(that whole thing with David’s return and the mystery of his ultimate fate), and willing going off to her doom at her cousin’s request in order to win the war and also because she knows she’s probably too far gone to return to a normal life.