Series Re Read #7 The Stranger
Okay, Rachel and the other Animorphs have finally found a new enterance to the Yeerk Pool. They've even figured out a way to sneak in. The infamous roach morph. But they didn't count on roaches being a Taxxon delicacy. This time escape doesn't look so good.
...And then everything stops. Everything. The feasting Taxxons, the human-controllers, the hork-bajir. Time. Now Rachel, Cassie, Marco, Jake, Tobias and Ax are in for their wildest trip ever. They're going to decide whether to stay on Earth and fight the Yeerks. Or go to another planet. And the guy giving them the choice says he can save them. Now they all they have to do is make the choice...
I think The Choice would have been a better ititle for this one.
At first it was hard to figure out why the Ellimist offered them the escape but he never intended to actually remove them, did he? It would have ruined his game with Crayak. We do know that both times he used the time-stoppages to show them what he wanted them to see, the drop shaft and the building.
Of course, the alternate future isn't the same one from The Familiar for obvious reasons. Rachel and Cassie weren't controllers there, only Marco, and Tobias was still alive. They thought Jake was a controller but he wasn't.
Not entirely relayed, but I have to wonder, how would the Yeerks use a morph-capable hawk anyway?
I just now noticed that the two books with future visions have opposing names...The Stranger and The Familiar. Is there a link there?
Rachel refers to the damage being known later...that's The Underground, I think.
I do notice we never do hear about Rachel's dad again after his visit in The Reaction. Or at least during the later stuff, I don't know if we do earlier. (is he in The Seperation? I think so.)
What do you think about Rachel's choice to stay and fight rather than go with her dad and what it says about her? And what does it say about everyone that they wanted to go to the sanctuary and all said yes?
Of course there could have been an interesting subplot if she had gone with and found Yeerks where she moved to, and then somehow got pushed into coming back to fight...
Next week we do Megamorphs #1, judging by the promo in back of this book.
...And then everything stops. Everything. The feasting Taxxons, the human-controllers, the hork-bajir. Time. Now Rachel, Cassie, Marco, Jake, Tobias and Ax are in for their wildest trip ever. They're going to decide whether to stay on Earth and fight the Yeerks. Or go to another planet. And the guy giving them the choice says he can save them. Now they all they have to do is make the choice...
I think The Choice would have been a better ititle for this one.
At first it was hard to figure out why the Ellimist offered them the escape but he never intended to actually remove them, did he? It would have ruined his game with Crayak. We do know that both times he used the time-stoppages to show them what he wanted them to see, the drop shaft and the building.
Of course, the alternate future isn't the same one from The Familiar for obvious reasons. Rachel and Cassie weren't controllers there, only Marco, and Tobias was still alive. They thought Jake was a controller but he wasn't.
Not entirely relayed, but I have to wonder, how would the Yeerks use a morph-capable hawk anyway?
I just now noticed that the two books with future visions have opposing names...The Stranger and The Familiar. Is there a link there?
Rachel refers to the damage being known later...that's The Underground, I think.
I do notice we never do hear about Rachel's dad again after his visit in The Reaction. Or at least during the later stuff, I don't know if we do earlier. (is he in The Seperation? I think so.)
What do you think about Rachel's choice to stay and fight rather than go with her dad and what it says about her? And what does it say about everyone that they wanted to go to the sanctuary and all said yes?
Of course there could have been an interesting subplot if she had gone with and found Yeerks where she moved to, and then somehow got pushed into coming back to fight...
Next week we do Megamorphs #1, judging by the promo in back of this book.