I alwayss felt vaguely bad for the Gedds. They existed only to be hosts for the Yeerks, and they couldn't even do that well.
Something else always puzzled me about them, too... how remarkably non-lethal they are. In #06 Jake's Yeerk tells us the Yeerk homeworld has only about a hundred species. In the Andalite Chronicles, we see for the first time a glimpse of the Yeerk homeworld and the creatures there. By all accounts, it's a pretty forbidding, hostile places. Yet, like the Taxxons, the Gedds are ill-equipped to survive in even a tame world, let alone the savage world the Yeerks call home.
It made sense that as the Yeerks gained better hosts Gedds would become less used, but IIRC Gedds barely made any appearances at all after the Hork-Bajir Chronicles. I guess that's not exactly a shame, because it'd be kind of a letdown to finally meet the Council of Thirteen and see a couple of them with Gedd hosts (though, hey, if Taxxons are viable...) but I still would have liked to see at least a bit more of them.
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Date: 2011-11-29 11:31 am (UTC)Something else always puzzled me about them, too... how remarkably non-lethal they are. In #06 Jake's Yeerk tells us the Yeerk homeworld has only about a hundred species. In the Andalite Chronicles, we see for the first time a glimpse of the Yeerk homeworld and the creatures there. By all accounts, it's a pretty forbidding, hostile places. Yet, like the Taxxons, the Gedds are ill-equipped to survive in even a tame world, let alone the savage world the Yeerks call home.
It made sense that as the Yeerks gained better hosts Gedds would become less used, but IIRC Gedds barely made any appearances at all after the Hork-Bajir Chronicles. I guess that's not exactly a shame, because it'd be kind of a letdown to finally meet the Council of Thirteen and see a couple of them with Gedd hosts (though, hey, if Taxxons are viable...) but I still would have liked to see at least a bit more of them.