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Series Re-Read #49 The Diversion

Jul 11, 2010 23:29

The Animorphs have their biggest problem yet. The Yeerks know they're human. They decide together that it's time to tell their parents and get them to safety. They manage with Cassie and Rachel, but it's too late for Jake's family. Tobias, meanwhile, has found his mother and is intent on helping her ( Read more... )

series re-read, book: 49 (the diversion)

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tobiahawk July 13 2010, 06:13:58 UTC

Man, what I love about this book is that it manages to be both heartwrenching (Jake's loss of his family, Tobias' meditations on his lack of one, the general increasing feeling that you know the Animorphs will without a question be permanently scarred for life by this war, regardless of the outcome) and completely hilarious--Rachel's mom and the spice rack and this lovely Ax quote ( ... )

anijen21 July 13 2010, 07:14:04 UTC

So despite the fact that #45 was marketed as THE BEGINNING OF THE END or whatever, I really feel like this is the first book in the *final arc.* One thing I sort of hate about books 45-48 is that, yeah, the stakes are raised, but there's really no narrative continuity between books. The only thing 46 has to do with 45 is that Visser Three is Visser One now, the only thing 47 has to do with 45 is that Marco's parents are in the valley, and 48 has nothing to do with anything. Like I wouldn't say the books are totally unnecessary--well, 47 might be, I really don't think moving the Hork-Bajir to a new valley did anything to impact the final arc--but I just feel like, had we compressed 45-48 or removed them all together, the *true* final arc, which really does start with this book (does anything make a difference before the Yeerks know the Animorphs are human? Not really. Maybe The Former Visser One dying, but even so, nothing seems to matter about that until the Animorphs go into hiding), could have been handled a little more...idk, ( ... )

anijen21 July 13 2010, 07:14:11 UTC

I don't blame it entirely on him. Like why didn't anyone say, "Hey you know Jake, we just let the Yeerks know that we know they're after our families by attacking their blood processing center, don't you think they're going to move fast to complete their plan now that we know? Like I know we'd all love to be privileged enough to be able to 'sleep on it,' but of all the potential decisions a night of sleeping on it might have helped, I don't think htis is one of them."

IDK. PLOT INDUCED STUPIDITY OF THE MOST EGREGIOUS TYPE.

I did mostly like the scenes of the kids telling their parents...I think Jordan and Sara were de-aged about five years apiece, and Naomi was just what is this I don't even, but this: "Baby. Oh my baby...Why didn't you tell us, Cassie? We couldn've helped." 85 to me seems like the most rational response.

And kind of does beg the question--why didn't they ever tell their parents?

Oh well.

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rena_librarian August 8 2010, 10:09:21 UTC

I don't think anybody in any of these books got screwed over so badly as Loren and Tobias. Both of them lost their One True Love and each other and neither was in a very happy situation for the duration of the series. The whole insurance thing is just kind of rubbing that in ( ... )

tobiahawk July 14 2010, 01:13:44 UTC

Did anyone else get the feeling that the Elimist may have "helped" Loren's car accident along, in order to further erase Elfangor's influence and perhaps to put Tobias in a more vulnerable place, leading him to become a hawk because he felt he had nothing as a human?

Also, it's kind of heartbreaking when Tobias is Loren's suidedog and talks about how amazing it is to her hold him and say she loves him, either though he knows she thinks he's (well he is, technically) her dog.

Any thoughts on Loren risking her life to save Tobias'? Did you buy it?

anijen21 July 14 2010, 03:33:07 UTC

lol I think I've said this before, but the Ellimist is the most villainous character in the whole series, based solely on what he does to Loren.

tobiahawk July 14 2010, 04:16:04 UTC

You mean just in regards to Elfangor? Or do you think he had a hand in her "accident"?

anijen21 July 14 2010, 04:17:57 UTC

He was a dick to Elfangor, but not only stripping Loren of her memory and her power of self-determination, but allowing all this shitty shit to happen to her makes him the most unforgivable character in the series. Even if he didn't actively make that car hit her or whatever, his neglect of someone he directed manipulated is just...gross.

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