#The Invasion

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Reading Animorphs like:

[reality-detective]

"The Invasion" and it's NOT just in America 🤔

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Animorphs #1: The Invasion thoughts:

I love the voice. The hesitations, the repeats, the "Tobias was... I mean I guess he still is kind of a strange guy" (p. 3). I get why AniTV opened on Jake turning on a video camera and rambling into it. Doesn't work in context, but. That is what this opening narration feels like: a scared kid grabbing you by the arm and talking to you peer-to-peer.

Jake telling us like 8 times in a row that him getting cut from the basketball team is "no big deal"... Aw. Kid. Sure you don't really care, and that's why you keep bringing it up.

A+ for the exchange like Elfangor: I'm dying. Jake: Don't worry, Cassie will solve this!

Interesting that Elfangor tells the kids not to fight the yeerks, but to warn the human authorities. So to give the dude credit, he does try to avoid involving children in the war.

Again I love the hints of characterization starting right away — Cassie's the first one to volunteer to morph, Marco's the last, and Jake's the one insisting they all decide together.

Animorphs books can be read here | Book Club schedule is here

[notyoujamie]

THE DOCTOR AND THEIR MASSIVE SWEET TOOTH 🍪🍰🍬

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[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Le Guêpier, 1892

[maggothaven]

not sure why anyone would bother making complicated plans to kill/kidnap two and jamie when these are two guys who will enter a room, see a plate of unattended sandwiches, think “ooo a a treat for me, mayhap” and take a bite. Do you have any idea how easy it would be to just poison them?

[bluefox4]

Its really interesting that the Controller Cop just zeroed in on Cassie. The only black kid in the group.

Also, what the actual fuck was he doing just driving up to Cassie's family farm? As far as I can tell its far away from other properties. That road might be a public road but just as likely it could have become a private road. So, again, what was he doing out there? Why look for the kids that were at the construction site so far away from where most teenagers would be? Wouldn't the mall have been a better place to make inquiries at?

But no he came to the farm. The farm that is owned by a black family. Was the yeerk racist? Did the controller's views color the yeerk's views on people? Why come out here?

I get from the story point, it was to help confirm to the Animorphs that they wouldn't be able to go to the cops for help. And it also helped them put together that The Sharing is connected to the Yeerks somehow. But from the Yeerk's point of view, why go to the farm? Did he know that there would be teenagers there?

But then, after that, he's still is fixated on Cassie. Like she didn't help her case getting so close to the meeting of Full Members. But he didn't report that. He left it alone until Monday evening.

Monday evening when he kidnapped Cassie from her home! Like the kid that he made sure to track down and drag to be forcibly infested, to be enslaved is the black girl. If he was at all suspicious of their group he knew about where to find Jake as well. He could have told Tom that he agreed that he thought that they should make Jake one of their own but he doesn't. Its just Cassie that gets targeted.

It just in this era you can't ignore the fact that the one character that the Yeerks try to target in the group is the black girl, and that it is done by a cop. It feels like Controlled Cop wanted Cassie to be involved with the construction site kids without needing any evidence.

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[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

I really felt Tobias’ story was a trans allegory from the start but this panel in the graphic novel hit hard, especially after knowing what happens later with the Elemist.

[corgi-nub]

drew a green anole as I listen to the animorphs audiobooks yet again

[nkp1981]

BTS Of "The Invasion"

[trashbagcommunist]

”It’s a member of the iguana family actually – like you care��� Jake, if I didn’t care, I probably wouldn’t be the kind of person to read animorphs

[marv-el-spot]

FILMS WATCHED IN 2024 The invasion (2007) Dir.  Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Animorphs #1: The Invasion thoughts (pt. 4):

Obviously this is before the popularization of the term "lovebombing," but you can tell KAA has done all the research on cult tactics during that first Sharing meeting. Marco concludes he was wrong and these people are too nice to be controllers. Jake gushes about how much fun it is, and how he's finally spending time with Tom again. Cassie's the only one creeped out by "the full members... all being so perfectly nice. So perfectly helpful" (p. 99).

Cassie telling Jake it's fine for him to go spy on the full members' meeting alone, and then sneaking in to watch out for him anyway! Be still my heart.

Marco's mantra, over and over, of "this is real," breaks my dang heart (p. 74, 86, 111). He's right, that the others are treating the war like "some video game" or "comic book" or "grand adventure." They'll learn, by the end of their first mission, but he's the only one to know in advance just how fast this is all going to go to hell.

Love Jake and Marco's exchange after they run into the tiger enclosure, where Jake's like "thank goodness the guards didn't follow us in here" and Marco's looking around at the 30' concrete walls going "why didn't the guards follow us in here?" Again, Marco already understands so much more than Jake about how much danger they're in.

Animorphs books can be read here | Book Club schedule is here

[thekinglemingle]

Book 1, part 2/?

There is no way Im keeping up with the proposed schedule with 2 small kids in my house. Damn.

Where did the name come from though? It will later be established that biodiversity in the Animorphs universe is incredibly low (I have strong thoughts on why), so what world have the Yeerks encountered with bugs to model their ships on?

<The Taxxons are evil>

I get that he's trying to simplify a complex political situation to 13 year olds in a hurry, but this is Hella judgy for someone who owes their life to a Living Hive

30 pages in and we're already getting some trademark Animorphs realness

34 pages to the first Salad Shooter reference. I still don't really know what they are. Someone tried to explain it to me on the previous post (thank you), but I'm 35 and too old to learn

Cannot believe they had us read this in school aged 7

Where's that post (I think by @thejakeformerlyknownasprince ?) about how similar the Berenson cousins are before the War forces them into roles?

Rachel angsts for ages about that old man she inadvertently kills in book 37, but Jake never seems to stress about this homeless guy.

Tom in youth pastor voice: let's rap about the Sharing. You know who's real rad? Mr Visser.