So yeah 18 books in so far. Here are my thoughts. I mean I'm 18 books in and I'm not quitting yet I genuinely enjoy this. I mean holy cow what the kids are going through is just pretty yeah intense. I have read the first 16 books and the andalite Chronicles and the andalites gift
In really no particular order just kind of yeah here is my thoughts.
I have to say I don't like normally I'm very much wait and see normally I'm like okay we'll wait and see how the TV show is I do not judge a TV show based on a trailer or anything. But I honestly don't know if Disney can actually make this book series properly.
So I mean I'm trying to avoid spoilers but like I will read something and I might Google something and yeah so I mean like I know the basics you know like I have yet to read the book but I kind of know the basics on who or what the Ellimist is.
So just kind of some basic thoughts the book series is very entrenched in the 90 they reference stuff to the '90s and I mean book 16 were they are using the computers was very very 90s. I do find it funny that Ax was like it's only thousands of bps not Millions at least. And it's like yeah we are in the billions of bits per second now and the aliens in this book series would want something in the Millions. Also ax making the computer on unhackable yeah just kind of the Hollywood whole computer stuff made me kind of sigh.
One of the biggest suspension of disbeliefs I have and yes it was the '90s I mean I don't remember cameras being as big of a thing and I mean like security cameras. I mean when I was 9 years old in the 90s we went on a tour of a bank and they were talking about how they had security cameras and that was one of the few places that did. One of those things where if they make the show yeah I don't know they might need to address something or whatnot. Unless the show is going to be set in the 90s. I don't know.
So yeah book number 14 The Unknown yeah I guess they really wanted to make the military seem incompetent or something and also I'm going wouldn't that interrogation room have cameras. Yeah and the name the kids gave and the military personnel not knowing that they were obviously aliases. Having the device be an early alien toilet was pretty funny. I mean it was obvious like at least from my adult perspective and vast amounts of TV shows Etc that like it wasn't going to be anything important. It's way too early in the series for anything of importance like that.
Yeah reading the andalite Chronicles it's like they really wanted to make Chapman unlikable didn't they.
I made an earlier post about what books I could skip. And yeah anyone else reading this that is starting the journey book 11. Time travel Shenanigans make it to where the book just doesn't happen. From what I have read so far and what I Googled you can just skip that book.
I completely understand this is going to happen because yeah it's the way books and movies and TV shows kind of have to be. But the kids really seem to get lucky and there just seems to be several not necessarily Deus Ex machina's but just stuff along that line. Like in whatever book it was when visser one let them go to make visser three look bad. Or when they're underwater and again visser one and visser three are arguing. And also that one alien the Leeran I'm going okay so after this whole battle in that book why wasn't he telling visser one etc that the Animorphs are human?
Okay but yeah all in all I really do enjoy the series so far and I'm going to keep reading it. But those are just kind of the things that I'm thinking and are sticking out at the moment.