Species discussion: Venber

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

The ones we saw were actually Venber with human DNA, but originally, the Venber lived on a planet relatively close to the Andalite world. They had the problem of being useful for the way they turned into liquid if they got too warm-although, the temperature limit is one we'd consider freezing cold ourselves. The Five hunted them to extinction for lubricants. They had hammer heads and four arms, plus feet that were like skis.

I do like the ending of that book, how Marco, who's narrating, talks about how they have to make sure the world knew what the Yeerks were doing to innocent beings, and how he describes the Venber suicide run near the end of the book.

Comments

[starz4598.livejournal.com]

The Venber weren't controllers--the Yeerks would have frozen to death in their brains. I feel like it was implied that the Yeerk-created Venber weren't exactly sentient. I reread this book recently, and there is a moment when a human-Controller says that they need to "program the Venber." Also, the part at the end of the book where they continue coming after the Animorphs even after they have melted to only a couple of body parts...it just all sounded very robotic to me.

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

ohhh that's why I had a problem with it.

IDK I GUESS I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH LIKE AVATAR, HOW THESE REMOTE-CONTROL DRIVEN BODIES ARE NOT EVEN SUGGESTED TO HAVE SOULS OR CONSCIOUSNESSES OF THEIR OWN? I mean can you imagine someone making a human for the express purpose of being used as a body but then like no one stops and says "um, really?" Like not even Cassie threw a fit about using automatonic unwilled bodies into killing themselves.

and I am normally the last person to be on board with Cassie's irrelevant moralistic tangents, but something about the Venber just felt really icky to me.