yeah, the books always struck me as having a very '90s understanding/paradigm of evolution, or at least that kind of middle school/high school understanding that went something like "DID YOU KNOW WE ONLY USE 10% OF OUR BRAIN??? IMAGINE IF WE TAPPED INTO THAT POTENTIAL." You do a good job of pointing out all of the little fallacies and misunderstandings that the books exploit, and as :/ as I am about what could ostensibly be a didactic piece getting the nitty gritties wrong, at the same time, there was a kind of thematic element of the series in making Mother NatureTM a bona-fide CHARACTER, as if there is some will-driven force keeping Earth safe from invasion, keeping humanity safe from extinction, etc. It's a little too nihilistic in literature to present nature the way it actually is, at least in a story like Animorphs. To me anyway.
This is a long way of invoking Rule of Cool or whatever relevant TVTropes entry works. There was some unfactual but poetic discussions of NATURE and EVOLUTION in the series.
But ultimately I agree, I think Applegrant just don't have a super solid grasp on the specifics, as most authors save like Crichton don't. I think in one of the later gone books he called the placenta clear? Like he mixed it up with the amniotic sac or something?
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Date: 2013-07-12 07:54 pm (UTC)This is a long way of invoking Rule of Cool or whatever relevant TVTropes entry works. There was some unfactual but poetic discussions of NATURE and EVOLUTION in the series.
But ultimately I agree, I think Applegrant just don't have a super solid grasp on the specifics, as most authors save like Crichton don't. I think in one of the later gone books he called the placenta clear? Like he mixed it up with the amniotic sac or something?
also hey girl :)