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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[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.