Heh, there's so many little continuity errors in the first book. But that doesn't bother me so much, everything was still getting ironed out. Also, does Visser Three really engage in punning besides the notorious 'bite out of your enemies'? I can't remember. Although it would crack me up if he went round demanding his minions for good puns and then cutting their heads off if the puns were bad.
Yeah, the Hork-Bajir are often used as pawns in the storytelling for 'look how awful war is, see how they suffer' rather than characters in their own right (even in their own Chornicles!) And Taxxons we only really see sympathetically through an Andalite nothlit's eyes. I can see why the *characters* care more about humans/Andalites (it would be kinda weird if they didn't), but the story itself seems to endorse the atittude too.
I do think you're relatively aware that the hosts die along with the parasites, though. A lot of times it only comes up when they know the host personally (Eva, Tom) but I do think it's dealt with adequately. It's just that it's not dealt with in re: Hork-Bajir and Taxxons very much, imo.
(In re: killing hosts, there's a big theme of 'better free than dead,' and that's really not a decision you're entitled to make for someone else, but that's an entirely different discussion.)
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Date: 2010-10-19 01:13 am (UTC)Yeah, the Hork-Bajir are often used as pawns in the storytelling for 'look how awful war is, see how they suffer' rather than characters in their own right (even in their own Chornicles!) And Taxxons we only really see sympathetically through an Andalite nothlit's eyes. I can see why the *characters* care more about humans/Andalites (it would be kinda weird if they didn't), but the story itself seems to endorse the atittude too.
I do think you're relatively aware that the hosts die along with the parasites, though. A lot of times it only comes up when they know the host personally (Eva, Tom) but I do think it's dealt with adequately. It's just that it's not dealt with in re: Hork-Bajir and Taxxons very much, imo.
(In re: killing hosts, there's a big theme of 'better free than dead,' and that's really not a decision you're entitled to make for someone else, but that's an entirely different discussion.)