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The implicit decision at the end. "Rachel took initiative while I was gone. She nearly caused the death of my girlfriend and might have lost the cause entirely. On the other hand...do I want my crew to be too afraid to do anything when I'm out? That could lose us everything too. And she's already feeling pretty bad. What do I tell her?"

And he chooses to tell her that she did good, that she did what she had to do.

It's a war. We do what we have to do because we're forced to do it.

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I feel like a more interesting tension than "Marco and Rachel butt heads over who's in charge" would be "Marco and Rachel lead the Animorphs collaboratively and build on each other's strengths in aggression and strategy until Cassie and Tobias have to slam the brakes over civilian body count."

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pushovermediacritic replied to your link “Episode 37: Amazing and Also the Worst — Animorphology”

I was actually sort of looking forward to 37, especially since it's pretty controversial and I love the Inspector, but I guess it turned out to be an early April Fools episode reading fanfiction. Up until the very end, I was still feeling a little bitter and upset, but the lack of animosity in Gray's reaction soothed the burn. So, what's going on with the actual book 37? Do we have to wait another week? Or do you just hate 37 so much you decided to skip it entirely?

No fear—we’ll be coming out with the canon 37 episode next week! It was, uh, not controversial among the three of us, I’m sorry to say. 😅Sorry this episode was stressful for you—rest assured that Gray loved it a lot!

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Such a dis, but Rachel totally deserves it.

I appreciate that, while it would be so easy to have Cassie as the Designated Damsel In Distress, the Animorphs don't rescue her specifically particularly often. (As far as I can remember, the last time was in book 1.) But in this story? It's perfect. Rachel fucked up, now she's at risk of losing her best friend. I love it.

Also I love how the story straddles both "even the best leaders mess up sometimes" and "yeah Rachel is being a pretty shitty leader."

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Coming back to #37 after a long hiatus.

I like some of the Rachel books but some are just really unpleasant for me. This is one of the unpleasant ones. Things are going to go Badly, I know they are going to go badly, I don't really like hanging around waiting for it to happen.

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#37 being so bad actually makes #38 work better, because the characterization was so mind bendingly stupid in #37 that in #38 when 1) Cassie said fighting a lost cause is morally wrong 2) Rachel accepted the war as lost 3) Tobias stormed out of a team meeting in a huff 4) Jake said the word "please" and 5) Marco walked away from Jake in crisis, obviously my first thought was "this is a fake meeting" but my second thought was "wait maybe it's just really bad ghostwriting again" and I was genuinely unsure until the dramatic reveal.

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I've finished Animorphs #37. In a shocking development, a ghostwritten scholastic series has some poorly written installments. Such is life. Some highlights:

1) I love the law against continuity that these books seem to be under. "Is Visser 3 the better opponent to be facing than our available alternatives" the team debates, in #37, two books after Visser, in which they immolated Marco's life based on the premise that yes, he is. (Edit: wrote completely the wrong thing here. They decide in Visser that V3 is not the opponent they want; this argument in #37 woulda been a great opportunity to rehash that choice, make some guesses about what happened at the trial of V1 after they went home because somehow V3 is still running the show but Earth isn't on fire, which doesn't match Eva's predictions. But no! We can't discuss that because continuity is forbidden.)

2) Just gonna say this the once but Rachel's not stupid and this book does her a disservice and it's very gender.

3) You want me to believe Marco apologizes for scaring a child? Marco?

4) Love how much Cassie hated ripping up a bookstore.

5) This book does go on my list of times the Animorphs completely blow their cover and the plot just scurries merrily on like it didn't happen. They hit a sequence of known controllers publicly and there are zero human casualties? They have conversations with controllers where they clearly position themselves as defenders of earth and humanity in particular? Not gonna get too worried about this tho because it's clear the ghost writer just hasn't read most of the books.

6) So, Tobias woulda voted for Marco. Would Cassie? Inquiring minds (me) want to know.

7) Marco as a snake getting carried in the talons of a bird of prey to save the day—is this me? Am i the weird one? Or is this the Mexican flag?

8) i know i said this book wasn't good but it is good actually because they hijack a plane which is exactly the kind of behavior i want from the Animorphs.

9) In my imagined version of Animorphs where the story engages seriously with the politics of captivity and imperialism, and also there's emotional continuity and all the characters get richer treatment, this book gets merged with the hamburger book, it's an Ax POV, the question of whether to follow Marco or Rachel fails to be cleanly resolved in the meeting and Ax has to make difficult decisions about whose orders to follow in the absence of a clear commander, and also the Animorphs hit a prison in their sequence of random local attacks and Ax (an Andalite! a species that values physical freedom and open space! to the point of putting open fields inside their spaceships!) faces the question of "how can humans do this to fellow sentient beings" from the hamburger book but it's about prisons instead. And also Marco meets a guy in the prison who talks about his kid at home and there's an explicit parallel; and Marco, recognizing the parallel, insists on not killing the bystander and it's remarkable to everyone and a character moment. This opinion brought to you by the Animorphs in this book considering and dismissing an attack on a police station because they don't want innocent cops to get hurt. Cowardice.

10) the whole thing with the old guy having a heart attack just fell completely flat for me. This late in the game? One innocent bystander? In such a clearly accidental death, not even a real act of violence? I don't believe anyone but Ax and Cassie would even really care. I don't even believe Tobias would have announced what he saw to the group. He'd have sat on that info.

11) Marco telling Rachel they have an hour and ten minutes to save Cassie from the Yeerk Pool and he can't do that because he's not buckwild enough was good and the book really went uphill from there. I have notes on his wording but they're minor.

12) this book's obsession with a specific version of leadership, and the uncontested necessity of having a maximum leader, was weird and out of place. Do not believe this writer read #31. They do seem to have read #29, though, so i guess that's something.

13) this whole book might be worth it, actually, for the fact that Rachel and Jake have this conversation, in which, this close to the finish line, this close to the ending that i now know is coming, I get to hear Jake express his criteria for good leadership in these terms, to Rachel:

He walked in silence beside me in silence for a while. “How many Animorphs were there when you started?”

“Six.”

“And now?”

“Still six.”

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