If Andalites (as a society) had acknowledged that Yeerks were an intelligent, sentient race who were capable of peaceful coexistence, compassion, etc., it would've needed the Andalites to step back and admit that hey, Yeerks might actually have some reason for infesting other species.
I don't think it would have made much of a difference if they DID acknowledge it. I mean, it might be a bit harder on morale if they all pulled a Cassie and realized that some of the people who sincerely wanted them dead and were enslaving others and aiding in the enslavement of a lot of people were just doing their job and didn't have many options. Still, the Yeerks chosen course of action necessitated resistance so even if they tried to sympathize like Cassie did they'd still need to fight.
I think the whole mess could have been avoided if the Yeerks hadn't jumped the gun and took off with Andalite ships before the morphing technology had been perfected. They had no way of knowing, of course, but it was some really bad timing.
I don’t know that Seerow had much to do with it… I think that law about Seerow’s Kindness was more to do with not passing on state secrets/classified technology. And maybe they loosened up a bit,
I believe Seerow did have a lot to do with it because they either hadn't really shared a lot of technology before or they had and it hadn't blown up in their faces. Even if things went wrong, they had been able to be contained. The Yeerks were the first case that things went wrong and they couldn't fix it and so that started all of their 'never tell anyone anything' policy.
They did start to loosen it, yeah, but I'd say it was a gradual process over the three years that the series continued. There were a couple areas that the Andalites refused to share information on even if whoever was narrating thought that that might change. But sharing technology with a trusted ally race isn't quite the same as trusting said ally race to successfully deal with the species that has been plaguing you for generations all by themselves when they've only recently even realized they weren't alone in the galaxy. Their culture (or at least their military) has gotten extremely paranoid since Seerow's time.
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Re: Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-03 04:10 am (UTC)I don't think it would have made much of a difference if they DID acknowledge it. I mean, it might be a bit harder on morale if they all pulled a Cassie and realized that some of the people who sincerely wanted them dead and were enslaving others and aiding in the enslavement of a lot of people were just doing their job and didn't have many options. Still, the Yeerks chosen course of action necessitated resistance so even if they tried to sympathize like Cassie did they'd still need to fight.
I think the whole mess could have been avoided if the Yeerks hadn't jumped the gun and took off with Andalite ships before the morphing technology had been perfected. They had no way of knowing, of course, but it was some really bad timing.
I don’t know that Seerow had much to do with it… I think that law about Seerow’s Kindness was more to do with not passing on state secrets/classified technology. And maybe they loosened up a bit,
I believe Seerow did have a lot to do with it because they either hadn't really shared a lot of technology before or they had and it hadn't blown up in their faces. Even if things went wrong, they had been able to be contained. The Yeerks were the first case that things went wrong and they couldn't fix it and so that started all of their 'never tell anyone anything' policy.
They did start to loosen it, yeah, but I'd say it was a gradual process over the three years that the series continued. There were a couple areas that the Andalites refused to share information on even if whoever was narrating thought that that might change. But sharing technology with a trusted ally race isn't quite the same as trusting said ally race to successfully deal with the species that has been plaguing you for generations all by themselves when they've only recently even realized they weren't alone in the galaxy. Their culture (or at least their military) has gotten extremely paranoid since Seerow's time.