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| Animorphs; What'd you all think? | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 5 2009, 04:44 PM (651 Views) | |
| Canis Lupis | Apr 5 2009, 04:44 PM Post #1 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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When I was younger, I was a huge fan of the "Animorphs" book series. I even had my own fan-fic ("Metamorphs") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animorphs You can discuss the "Animorphs" book series in this topic. But what I really want to discuss are the aliens mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_species_(Animorphs) As I said, I was a huge fan of "Animorphs". I've gone back over the series with speculative biology in mind and I've discovered what a good job K.A. Applegate did with her aliens. Sure, she made some mistakes (like talking about birds flying around in the skies of some alien planet that humans (let alone birds) have never been to). But I think she stayed original and did a good job designing her creatures. Tell me what you all think. (And don't worry about hurting my feelings because I was a huge fan. It's not my book series; it's Applegate's.I'm over being a fan now; instead, I'm a critic) |
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| Xenophile | Apr 14 2009, 07:06 PM Post #2 |
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Formerly known as alienboy.
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I've noticed that nobody has replied to this, so I will. I don't know much about the series, so here goes nothing. I have thought about the ability of one speices morphing into another and the only way I see this happening is if a creature used stem cells that were able to change from one cell type to another and back again. I think this is plausible because we currently know nothing about alien lifeforms and such a cell might exist elsewhere. |
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| Yorick | Apr 14 2009, 11:05 PM Post #3 |
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I was and still am a huge fan of Animorphs. I hope to one day make a proper TV series out of these books. Except for "Visser," I've read every single book. Earlier this year actually, I was banned from this one website called RAF which was this huge Animorphs community. If you're wondering why I was banned, my very blunt demeanor and their website being run by brats with too much power does not a good combination make. (Get this, they actually block IP addresses so you won't simply create new accounts and whenever you try to even SEE what's going on, they leave you this message: "Sorry Guest, you are banned from using this forum!" HA! HA! HA!) Edited by Yorick, Apr 14 2009, 11:08 PM.
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| Vultur-10 | Apr 15 2009, 05:46 AM Post #4 |
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Hmmm, well... The Hork-Bajir were not a natural product of evolution but were engineered by the Arn, as were most of the species on their planet. The Andalites are an interesting case --I wonder what drove a grazing herd animal to develop intelligence? |
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| Canis Lupis | Apr 21 2009, 10:04 PM Post #5 |
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alienboy: The morphing could be accomplished that way. But it may also be accomplished through the use of enzymes that we Humans don't know about, but ones that the Andalites may know of. These enzymes could replace the entire DNA sequence so that you could become the creature. The enzyme may have to be a quantum one (the Andalites seem to have vast knowledge of quantum things) in order to work, but it could still work. Yorick: Yeah! Another fan! Vultur-10: To get away from predators. Or we could take the book's explanation, which seems a bit "out there". In the "Ellimist Chronicles", it says that the Ellimist (a semi-all-powerful being) transforms himself into a member of the Andalite's ancestral species (the Andalite version of an Australopithecine) and bred with them for a few generations. Thus producing the high degree of intelligence and the telepathy associated with this species. |
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