1. But again, what did the Taxxons or YPF even do for the final battle? How did that correlate to getting them on the Pool Ship? What did the Taxxons have to do with anything, really. I love them but they basically showed up in #53 to be an illustration of how nobody's purely evil, not to actually forward the plot or anything beyond giving Tom a way to contact Jake.
Tom had access to the Pool Ship and Jake's parents. He's got bargaining chips up to his eyes. And his goal would have been to punish V3 no matter what, morph cube or no - for Tom it was not about the morph cube, it was about getting tortured. Do you really think, with all the Yeerks who hated V3 and the Visser system even as early as #4, that he couldn't have found some guys happy to go with him with the Blade Ship? Tom wasn't taking a big amount of Yeerks with him, just a hundred loyal ones.
I mean, the thing is, I get that the morph cube was essential in the negotiations that ended the war. The end of the last current day chapter is pretty much "we got cubez!". But there really isn't anything that giving up the cube accomplished that couldn't have been done more safely with disseminating the idea of the cube. The Yeerks did not need to be in POSSESSION of the cube to have unrest. They want unrest? Point out that there's an alternative. Actually USE the YPF instead of mentioning them on the side. Have Erek sneak in and give it to a few Controllers. Don't just give it up to TOM.
I just...don't see it being the necessary push. Not when there was already such disdain and fear for V3 way early in the series. Not when most of the Yeerks willing to defect didn't have access to it anyway.
2. Maybe it could have been a good idea, but not the way Cassie implemented it. Also, even though Marco risked his life, obviously they DID find the Chee (that said, that's always been a plot point that bugged me. They totally should have Chekov's Gunned Erek's magic cell phone from #10 instead of just had it be "I can't find them" "try harder" "found them!").
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Date: 2010-09-28 12:00 pm (UTC)Tom had access to the Pool Ship and Jake's parents. He's got bargaining chips up to his eyes. And his goal would have been to punish V3 no matter what, morph cube or no - for Tom it was not about the morph cube, it was about getting tortured. Do you really think, with all the Yeerks who hated V3 and the Visser system even as early as #4, that he couldn't have found some guys happy to go with him with the Blade Ship? Tom wasn't taking a big amount of Yeerks with him, just a hundred loyal ones.
I mean, the thing is, I get that the morph cube was essential in the negotiations that ended the war. The end of the last current day chapter is pretty much "we got cubez!". But there really isn't anything that giving up the cube accomplished that couldn't have been done more safely with disseminating the idea of the cube. The Yeerks did not need to be in POSSESSION of the cube to have unrest. They want unrest? Point out that there's an alternative. Actually USE the YPF instead of mentioning them on the side. Have Erek sneak in and give it to a few Controllers. Don't just give it up to TOM.
I just...don't see it being the necessary push. Not when there was already such disdain and fear for V3 way early in the series. Not when most of the Yeerks willing to defect didn't have access to it anyway.
2. Maybe it could have been a good idea, but not the way Cassie implemented it. Also, even though Marco risked his life, obviously they DID find the Chee (that said, that's always been a plot point that bugged me. They totally should have Chekov's Gunned Erek's magic cell phone from #10 instead of just had it be "I can't find them" "try harder" "found them!").