Series re-read Hork Bajir Chronicles
I'm way tired tonight and won't have a lot of coherentness lol, but I know y'all will like being turned loose on this one.
As you know, it's the prequel story of Aldrea, daughter of Seerow, and Dak Hamee, Hork-Bajir seer. The future Visser 3 is there too.
Any thoughts on the connection between this book and The Prophecy?
As you know, it's the prequel story of Aldrea, daughter of Seerow, and Dak Hamee, Hork-Bajir seer. The future Visser 3 is there too.
Any thoughts on the connection between this book and The Prophecy?
Like a lot of things in Animorphs, the whole premise of the war is kind of shoe-horned into working. Like she covers the bases she needs to, she extrapolates where the mistakes were made and what assets and liabilities everyone had going for them at the time she needed to. All the same, it feels way, way too convenient. You can't portray the Andalites as the smartest (and yes, most racist and bigoted) race in the galaxy and then have them make such a monumental mistake (and I am NOT referring to Seerow's Kindness), and you can't portray the Yeerks as such an industrious, victory-obsessed race and then have THEM make the incompetent, Saturday-morning-cartoon-villain mistakes that they make on a perpetual basis in the regular series. It just doesn't work. Don't get me wrong, I think biologically the war with the Yeerks could have happened. I mean, shit, Arab terrorists have what amounts to a short bus, lots of high-caliber bullets, some BB guns, 2 bicycles and a used Corolla, and they're still a threatening enemy. But they're threatening because they could be anywhere. Because they're good at hiding. Because they infiltrate, sabotage, because they can sneak around unnoticed. And those are the exact things the Yeerks can do. If the Yeerks had been portrayed this way, as a subversive group that slowly infiltrates and leeches other species away, we might have had something. And, for a long time, that was how they were portrayed. Then Visser Three got trigger happy and Visser One was just holding out to protect her "kids" and there were Pool Ships and Blade Ships for every Yeerk lieutenant that wanted one and Bug Fighters were distributed like Halloween Candy and...FUCK, you know? It just got out of hand.
Bottom line: The Andalites should have been the American government. And the Yeerks should have been fighting like the Animorphs, all guerrilla-chic and courageous. The Yeerks should have been the rebel alliance and the Andalites should have been the Galactic Empire, and not the other way around. But then I guess, in all fairness, the Animorphs never would have been involved in the first place.
So there you go. A lot of illogical details at the war's inception to make the whole series work? I guess it's up to you if that's worth it.
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