[identity profile] poparena.livejournal.com
Hey, it's the Australia book. Well, I mean, it's the book about a small acre of Australia that takes more than half the book to get to. But there's a boomerang and a kangaroo and stuff.

You can watch it in one part on Blip:
http://blip.tv/pop-arena/opinionated-animorphs-book-guide-44-the-unexpected-7198025

or you can watch it in two parts below the cut.

Read more... )
[identity profile] buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com
The Yeerks are transporting pieces of a crashed blade ship somewhere. The Animorphs want to get the scraps and show them to the world. But a string of bad decisions leaves Cassie stuck on board a plane. It's going to someplace with the letters SYD, but she doesn't know until after she lands where that's at. The controllers catch onto her and in the fight, she ends up bailing out. Now she's alone, in the middle of the Australian outback. And Visser Three is there too.

I know this one is gonna get dumped on, because of the last time around LOL.

I don't like the whole isolating a single character for the whole book thing. It doesn't do much for me not having the whole group involved in the adventure.

And according to one of our Australian fans, there are some not-so-good Aussie depictions or stereotypes in the whole thing.

At least next week's is a book I enjoy a little more.
[identity profile] buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com
The Animorphs have been split up before. And they've had to fight battles without one another. But, this time is very different. Not only is Cassie totally alone, she's managed to find herself in Australia. In the rural Outback. The other Animorphs and Ax don't even know she's there.

Cassie doesn't have any idea where she's going, or if she can even survive the rugged terrain. But she does know she has to get to a town or village and contact her family and friends. Because she's realized that there's someone else who is also new to the Outback.

Visser Three.

I fully expect a lot of ranting about this one based on previous comments. I'm extremely curious. Could whoever it was that posted on this book before elaborate on what wrong stereotypes were promoted? I don't know that much about the people, and am interested to learn.

I'm not a big fan of solo books, which probably makes it good that this is the only totally solo one that I can remember.

I remember complaints about Cassie's bad decisions and bad thinking. How could a plot like this have been better executed so as to be tolerable at least? The idea of going to another country is cool, but obviously from what you all have said, they didn't do a good job.

Prompt...a long way from home

Hopefully next week will be a lot better. The Revelation is one of my favorites in the series. And a huge turning point in the series besides.

*digs bunker and prepares for lots of complaints about this one*

Profile

animorphslj: (Default)
Animorphs (Archive of the LJ Animorphs community)

August 2023

S M T W T F S
  12345
678910 1112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 5th, 2025 06:50 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios