Opinionated Animorphs Episode Guide - 1.09/1.10 The Capture Part One & Two

[poparena.livejournal.com]

Our first true two-parter, the Yeerks invade a spa and Jake invades Cassie's... well, you'll see in part two.

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[starmack.livejournal.com]

Ha! This is the best one yet. *dies*

I really enjoyed his anger over the 'moving stars'.

[acts_of_tekla]

...wasn't Jake's dad a really good GP in the books? Way to diminish a character, guys. It's not like you even needed to -- if you absolutely must have Jake's dad be connected, say it's opening in a hospital he works out of and he's excited because they'll be able to do in-house hydrotherapy or something.

In fairness, disliking escargot is neither uncommon nor something likely to come up frequently. Hang on, do they ever do the plot of book 16?

Re: encrypting -- not to mention, I don't think that word means what they think it means.

Hang on -- if the Yeerks were able to get there in the guise of the Governor's security force...couldn't they just have infested the governor at any time? Were they actually his security team, or did they just convince people that they were -- in which case, how incompetent is the gov's actual security team that they didn't pick up on the weirdness?

If Cassie's parents did walk into the barn, that would be...awkward. I really have no idea how she'd explain it ("He's practicing to be an escape artist"?), especially since Controller!Jake would just tell them she's crazy and lying.

I just realized that this was the last episode that I watched when it was airing -- I had some event the day it was actually airing, and I kicked up such a fuss that we asked a friend to record it, and I watched it and was just like "...I have given this show plenty of chances, and it still sucks." And I have never watched an episode since, even though I downloaded them a couple of years ago when I reread the series.

[tobiahawk.livejournal.com]

IIRC, Jake's dad was a pediatrician in the book (I think we learn his specialty in 36, the one with Grandpa G.'s death).

[acts_of_tekla]

I remembered the scene, but I didn't remember if he was specifically a pediatrician or if we just saw him treating a kid. Even worse in that case -- pediatricians have my undying respect for willingly working with people too young to tell you what's wrong, who also need to get a ton of shots.

[tobiahawk.livejournal.com]

The Ax movie card-chest rubbing is just... what the hell???! I practically fell down laughing!

Also, those must be some crappily constructed vents (compare to the vent demorphing situation in book 21)

[acts_of_tekla]

Maybe Andalite fur causes lots of static electricity, and since electricity ==> magnetism, Ax just demagnetized the card...? No idea how he managed to turn it into a skeleton key though.

[acts_of_tekla]

Or why he didn't just take the card from Jake and rub it on his arm. Creepy.

Anyway, according to the interwebs, magnetic strips are literally strips of bar magnets, and data is conveyed through their orientation. The magnetic field pattern is what is read by the card readers. The only way I can imagine this working is if he somehow managed to mess with the magnetic strip to create a field that would be read as whatever the code was, so each bar magnet would be both "0" and "1", and the Yeerks knew about this little trick of the Andalites (or just lifted Andalite technology which is designed to counter it since *they* know) and their systems are specifically designed to read "0 or 1" as null. How exactly Ax would have done that, I have no clue. Magic!

(And I was right -- Ax didn't "encrypt" the card, he "encoded" it. Dictionaries are your friends, show writers -- you can't just use words that sound cool and expect to make sense!)

[jenjaina.livejournal.com]

"Stars don't move" made me ridiculously angry too.