maybe this has bothered you too...

[captaincommiex.livejournal.com]

i'm home for the summer, and i just started to reread the invasion. this must be the tenth time rereading this particular book, but it just occurred to me: why didn't elfangor morph into another form to save himself from dying, and then demorph to heal his andalite body of the wounds? from what i've gathered, ax (or estrid, or maybe it was aldrea, i don't remember which of the andalites) had a kafit bird morph from the andalite home world, which he had to acquire to practice morphing. he said that young andalites often acquire a kafit bird and had to pass a morphing test or something. it stands to reason that elfangor, even before his convoluted trip as described in the andalite chronicles, had at least acquired a kafit bird, if not any other animal. why didn't elfangor give the animorphs the morphing power first, then morph into a kafit bird to heal his andalite body, then in his kafit bird morph, lead the animorphs to safety away from the approaching yeerks?

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[freudian-lisp.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it was just Applegate? This was her first book after all, maybe she wasn't "used" to this morphing thing and the characters yet, I know it sounds strange. Cus that's the book is all about right?
The first book is just so different form..say...book number 48 or 32 or 42! (I know she used ghostwriters!) where it feels like she knows her characters and the stuff they do better. Meh

I've thought of that many times. But the one who commented that Elfangor was to weak or afraid to scare em is propably right.

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