All right I'm slowly coming to the realization that I can't possibly get everything I have to say about this book out in one go, so we're going to do this in chunks.
CHUNK THE FIRST: Why The Andalite Chronicles is better than The Hork-Bajir ChroniclesI'm fully aware that a lot of people like that book better than this book. I am by no means not okay with that. Meaning to say I'm fine with that, lol, um...what was I saying
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it...UGH it contradicts so much, it's poorly written, it changes genre and tone and everything willy nilly, and...I really don't want to say too much now, that reread will be a good proper venting
ok so i don't really have anything to say about this book because... look i'm super busy, the book is really long and pretty much all i remember about it is the time matrix shows up, whatshisface becomes a taxxon and it's a really fucking creepy (well done) scene, at one point loren's hair and nails grow really fast, chapman is there, and then at the end i think i got to cry about tobias again, some more which brought me joy... but i heart your comments on this, a lot. and it makes me want to actually reread the book which I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR OMG.
and also, this is really not relevant to this post and i'll have to remember to bring this up for the next time it's relevant... maybe THBC? but i'm taking a class on nazi cinema and just read this whole book about hitler and nazi germany and this:
And slave to the single most deranged, insane, reckless Yeerk in existence?made me think that visser three is so much like hitler i kind of wonder if it was done on purpose. apologies if this is really old news and i'm just slow. but the next
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The three-way made-up universe was about the dumbest plot device I have ever read. For fuck's sake, It's worse than the random black hole or the spaceship-eating asteroids from hell.
The whatshisface-taxxon-nothlit guy scene waqs one of the most powerful in the series. Now that I think about it, my favorite books where when the anis go off earth (excluding #34, which in my opinion just doesn't exist) Applegate's rawrsome alien worlds MAKE this series for me.
I also wish we'd seen more Andalite culture. They're such a large part of the series, so why do we see so little of how and why they act the way they do?
"But do we actually get ANY scenes that TAKE PLACE on the Andalite homeworld, besides the swirly bits of this universe THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANY PEOPLE IN IT
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hahaha yeah I agree with your quibbles. This is a totally different Chapman that we get fron #2, which I think some have even speculated like a DIFFERENT Chapman, like literally not the same person. I think it's just inconsistent characterization, but to each his own.
And yeah, the romance was sweet, but a tad unbelievable. I guess I like to think that him moving to Earth with Loren was an act of desperation, and they spent a little longer getting to know each other. So falling in love in a week may be unrealistic, but meeting, marrying, and conceiving in three years? ehh, doable, even if you bf is an alien.
And honestly, though I realize the hirac delest was just a framing device, I was honestly DISAPPOINTED in #23 that Tobias found out through some boring will and testament rather than some fantastic battle over the rights to play Elfangor's found hirac delest or something. And that could have given us a scene of Ax and Rachel and Tobias and hell, EVERYONE finding out TOGETHER. Which would have been heartbreaking and angst-worthy
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there's this one alternate-final-two-books fic that i absolutely adore and choose to take as my canon even if i logically know it's too happy an ending for the series, and IIRC it features at one point tobias somehow finding the hirac delest and it's really sweet.
also i just realized my comment above was supposed to reply to you and didn't, OOPS.
also i read 23 before TAC cuz i got into the series i think in the late teens and then spent some time catching up, so i never thought of it that way, but now that you mention it that scene would have pretty much killed me.
aww good :') I honestly think one of the biggest problems of the series was that Applegate and Grant were TOO creative and made such good throwaway details that they missed a lot, and I mean a LOT, of narrative opportunities.
Kind of like LOST. But that show is just one big clusterfuck at this point.
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CHUNK THE FIRST: Why The Andalite Chronicles is better than The Hork-Bajir ChroniclesI'm fully aware that a lot of people like that book better than this book. I am by no means not okay with that. Meaning to say I'm fine with that, lol, um...what was I saying ( ... )
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it...UGH it contradicts so much, it's poorly written, it changes genre and tone and everything willy nilly, and...I really don't want to say too much now, that reread will be a good proper venting
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and also, this is really not relevant to this post and i'll have to remember to bring this up for the next time it's relevant... maybe THBC? but i'm taking a class on nazi cinema and just read this whole book about hitler and nazi germany and this:
And slave to the single most deranged, insane, reckless Yeerk in existence?made me think that visser three is so much like hitler i kind of wonder if it was done on purpose. apologies if this is really old news and i'm just slow. but the next ( ... )
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The whatshisface-taxxon-nothlit guy scene waqs one of the most powerful in the series. Now that I think about it, my favorite books where when the anis go off earth (excluding #34, which in my opinion just doesn't exist) Applegate's rawrsome alien worlds MAKE this series for me.
I also wish we'd seen more Andalite culture. They're such a large part of the series, so why do we see so little of how and why they act the way they do?
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And yeah, the romance was sweet, but a tad unbelievable. I guess I like to think that him moving to Earth with Loren was an act of desperation, and they spent a little longer getting to know each other. So falling in love in a week may be unrealistic, but meeting, marrying, and conceiving in three years? ehh, doable, even if you bf is an alien.
And honestly, though I realize the hirac delest was just a framing device, I was honestly DISAPPOINTED in #23 that Tobias found out through some boring will and testament rather than some fantastic battle over the rights to play Elfangor's found hirac delest or something. And that could have given us a scene of Ax and Rachel and Tobias and hell, EVERYONE finding out TOGETHER. Which would have been heartbreaking and angst-worthy ( ... )
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also i just realized my comment above was supposed to reply to you and didn't, OOPS.
also i read 23 before TAC cuz i got into the series i think in the late teens and then spent some time catching up, so i never thought of it that way, but now that you mention it that scene would have pretty much killed me.
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Kind of like LOST. But that show is just one big clusterfuck at this point.
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