Series re-read #44 The Unexpected

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

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 fight, she ends up bailing out. Now she's alone, in the middle of the Australian outback. And Visser Three is there too.

I know this one is gonna get dumped on, because of the last time around LOL.

I don't like the whole isolating a single character for the whole book thing. It doesn't do much for me not having the whole group involved in the adventure.

And according to one of our Australian fans, there are some not-so-good Aussie depictions or stereotypes in the whole thing.

At least next week's is a book I enjoy a little more.

Comments

[blue_rampion]

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:



At which point, Cassie is saved by a hot Aussie Bondi Lifeguard! Niiiiiiiiiice. Go Cassie! (Of course, just after being saved Cassie would then be berated for not swimming in between the flags and getting caught in a rip, thereby ruining all chance of a hot Lifeguard fling)

And several days later, Lourdes arrives, and all the other Animorphs are insanely jealous of the fact that Cassie got to spent a few days on holiday in Australia. Rachel will never forgive you for all the shopping you didn't do.

But what if the plane didn't crash close to Sydney? What if it just crashed somewhere out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but Cassie was at least able to morph something that prevented her from dying on impact? There is no way she could swim to Australia or the US. Not even if she morphed. Where would she go?



Alas, after having managed to swim to a nearby island, Cassie spends the rest of her life there, slowly going insane and talking to a coconut. And anyone who ever managed to come close, by pure chance, will flee and forever tell tales about the strange animals that would yell at them in their heads for destroying the environment.

But! There is one last scenario. Cassie manages to get to the sea without dying: but there is no island nearby to swim to. No land anywhere nearby. Just ocean, on and on. She only has one option for survival: morph, and become a nothlit forever.



...at which point, she can meet up with Aftran and have an epic romance filled with hot lesbian whale sex! Or possibly hetrosexual whale sex. Maybe even yaoi sex. Since we don't actually know the genders of their morphs.

...and that concludes what is wrong with this book! And yes, since I know you're all thinking it: I am clearly deranged for having thought up and bothering to draw all of this

this is my new canon.

[rayerai.livejournal.com]

(http://img31.imageshack.us/i/applausek.gif/)

it would certainly make more sense than canon

[blue_rampion]

Hah, any particular scenario, or ALL OF THEM AT ONCE? :P

Re: it would certainly make more sense than canon

[rayerai.livejournal.com]

ALL OF THEM AT ONCE, DEFINITELY.

But mostly the epic romance. I swear half the time Cassie had more ~sparks & tension~ with Aftran than Jake, anyway.

...Or she could have eloped with Whatshisface and his dog. I mean, that's legit too.

[blue_rampion]

Clearly Whale!Cassie/Whale!Aftran should be everyone's new OTP

Though you're forgetting the hot Bondi lifeguard! Clearly she needs a fling with one of them too

[rayerai.livejournal.com]

I did not really have an Animorphs OTP before this post.

That has since changed.

CASSIE/WHALE!AFTRAN 4EVA~


she can cheat on Aftran with the hot lifeguard because she's really human and has needs

[blue_rampion]

They can have hot whale make out sessions in between attacking whaling ships and headbutting anyone who damages to Great Barrier Reef!

Poor Aftran. Always feeling that she's never enough...Cassie, how could you?!

[rayerai.livejournal.com]

That Whale Wars show just got a helluva lot more interesting.

the episode where Aftran confronts Cassie on her cheatin' ways will be the two-hour season finale

[blue_rampion]

...There's a Whale Wars show?

It would be like Jerry Springer. With whales!

[rayerai.livejournal.com]

Whale Wars! (http://animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars/)

I bet you anything Cassie breaks up with that guy she hooks up with in 54 and finds Aftran, because Aftran will understand her. He can show up on the boat near the end of another season.

[embergryphon.livejournal.com]

Henceforth, I ship it. =D

[rayerai.livejournal.com]

Your icon is perfect!

[blue_rampion]

Or even just...look at a map? I mean, it's not hard to look at the Pacific Ocean and think, "hmm, after flying over all of that ocean, a plane's not really going to keep going before going back to Sydney, is it?"

also really I meant I'm more insane for bothering to draw pictures of all this and think up alternate scenarios orz

[blue_rampion]

Hah, thanks! (I'm glad someone likes my stick figures XD)

[ruka-nanjou.livejournal.com]

You totally made my day!

*can't stop laughing*

[blue_rampion]

Hah, I'm glad you liked it! :P

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

So it was ANIMORPHS that screwed up that detail, and not Lost. Because that's what I kept thinking about this whole book.

THANK YOU.

[blue_rampion]

...Does Lost also involve people flying to Sydney? /does not watch it

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

It's about a plane that crashed on an island in the middle of the Pacific--a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. Weird, creepy things happen. But later on in the series there are flashbacks showing them in Sydney and I got the idea that it was a coastal town, so this book confused me all to heck.

[blue_rampion]

Ah, I see! But yes, Lost got it right then XD

Fact is, every major Australian city is coastal. And pretty much most of the minor cities as well. Since the middle is well...the Outback. It's not exactly the most livable area. (And, even if the people were going to Alice Springs or something, they'd still have to stop and transfer at a coastal city anyway, because it's such a long flight where there is literally no chance of refueling. Not to mention that flights to Alice aren't exactly frequent.)

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

Yeah. You don't fly directly from Sydney to, say, Chicago either--you land on the edge of the country by the ocean and transfer. The only thing I can think is that the Yeerks somehow screwed up the flight instruments and the communications devices on the plane. But you'd think the pilots would still be able to get a visual on a FREAKING CITY.

[blue_rampion]

I think you notice that you were suddenly over land and not ocean, if nothing else

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

MTE.