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Series re-read #44 The Unexpected

May 30, 2010 23:27

The Yeerks are transporting pieces of a crashed blade ship somewhere. The Animorphs want to get the scraps and show them to the world. But a string of bad decisions leaves Cassie stuck on board a plane. It's going to someplace with the letters SYD, but she doesn't know until after she lands where that's at. The controllers catch onto her and in the ( Read more... )

series re-read, book: 44 (the unexpected)

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blue_rampion May 31 2010, 06:24:40 UTC

Okay, I know there are many, many issues that people would have with this book. Stereotypes being among them. And I am sure that others will go into great detail about them. However, there is one thing that is seriously, hopelessly, glaringly wrong with this book that I feel the need to point out.

To help illustrate this point, I have drawn a handy map. Examine this map closely, and see if you can figure out what is wrong with this book.

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blue_rampion May 31 2010, 06:29:10 UTC

And yet, somehow when Yeerks attack, Cassie is flying over the Australian Outback. Somewhere relatively close to Alice Springs, in fact. This is curious. Sydney is on the east coast of Australia. Alice Springs is somewhere near the middle. It takes several hours to get to Alice Springs form Sydney. Therefore, the only conclusion is that somehow, Cassie's plane took this flight plan:

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blue_rampion May 31 2010, 06:33:04 UTC

But we can't have Cassie die, can we? Sure, all of the people who hate Cassie would rejoice, but there are people who like her! Or who at least don't want to see her dead on the ocean floor. But perhaps Cassie is fortunate. Perhaps when the plane crashes, it crashed near the end if it's journey, when it was close to Sydney:

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this is my new canon. rayerai May 31 2010, 06:42:33 UTC

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mattiris May 31 2010, 07:31:41 UTC

Not a fan of this book at all. I'd probably rank it my second least favourite after #37.

The two main things that bugged me were the unecessity of the plot and the tone of the book. We've had "Cassie goes solo" in several books before this: #19, #29, even #34 to an extent. There's no way this book can do what those did better.

Secondly, I'm Australian, and wasn't heaps impressed with the way the book handled our country. Ignoring the many, many inaccuracies, it's the equivalent of someone flying to Los Angeles, getting in a plane crash, and being isolated with a bunch of Native Americans in the middle of Kansas. There's really no way Cassie would have been stuck out there for as long as she was and in the conditions she was in.

rayerai May 31 2010, 07:37:59 UTC

But if we had been realistic, we wouldn't have gotten MOAR SURGEON!CASSIE and MOAR RANDOM ALIEN TECHNOLOGY and that whole thing with the kangaroo army!

MOAR KANGAROOS

/kills self with alien shrapnel

perfect_ruin June 1 2010, 11:13:03 UTC

Jesus, I just had flashbacks to Tank Girl *goes and curls under a nice, safe blankie*

rena_librarian June 14 2010, 23:25:34 UTC

...come to think of it, why is it always Cassie that seems to go solo? I mean, I guess it makes sense to narrate events that only one character would be aware of from that character's POV, but why always this one? (I know there are other solo-mission books, but yeah, that's kinda weird...)

perfect_ruin May 31 2010, 07:46:41 UTC

Why did the Australian book have to be a Cassie book? -_-

I mean, even back when I was younger and saw the cover of this, as soon as I saw the kangaroo, I knew it was going to be bad. Really bad.

I'm Aussie, and this book physically hurts me. -_- *goes and cuddles up with TAC again*

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perfect_ruin June 1 2010, 11:07:46 UTC

Though I'm sorry it had to hit an entire continent.
We survived. Somehow. After all, there's plenty left in the series to rage about. :P

staysleeping May 31 2010, 21:47:56 UTC

Honestly I think this book could have been a bit more interesting if it had been someone like Marco or Tobias or something stuck in Aussie-land. Favorite part of the book was when Rachel and Tobias were making fun of Jake at the end :|

anijen21 June 1 2010, 04:28:49 UTC

at the very least, this is the "it's always darkest just before the dawn" book ( ... )

anijen21 June 1 2010, 04:28:57 UTC

The amputation scene was both laughable and depressing, ugh, but here...

This is Visser Three's absolute lowest point in the entire series ( ... )

rena_librarian June 14 2010, 23:32:51 UTC

Yeeeah I wondered about that...it starts off the same way as the book with the wild horses. WTF? (And wasn't that also a Cassie book, just to make it worse?)

buffyangellvr23 June 1 2010, 14:39:31 UTC

I'm impatient and can't wait 'til Sunday. What's wrong with 45? I consider it one of my favorites.

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