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Continuing on the watch through of AniTV! (You can find the other parts here: [Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3])

So onward to Visser 1's first full episode!

...Y'know, for being on a yeerk ship there's a remarkable lack of aliens here. Just a room full of human controllers. No hork-bajir, no gedds, no taxxons (not that there have been any taxxons in this series at all, despite the fact that this is episode 15 (out of 26)), nothing but humans-- and all of them wearing almost entirely gray like some bizarre cult.

And Jake and Marco somehow didn't get noticed hiding behind crates while human.

I know the answer for why they're human is probably 'The budget!' but come on. I'd even take barely-made-an-effort large tiger and gorilla stuffed animals over the two of them having no sense and running around un-morphed on a yeerk ship.

SIGH.

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Stupid sexy Visser Three!

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Continuing on my watch-through of AniTV (here's where you can find [Part 1] and [Part 2] if you're interested), and right out of the gate the budget strikes again.

Rachel turns into a red-tailed hawk. When she should be a bald eagle.

Yeah, yeah, yeah-- continuity versus budget, I know-- but sometimes I feel like the show makers just really did not want to make Animorphs while they were trying to make Animorphs.

There's also the fact of weird '90s gender junk and it seeming like the show writers were terrified of writing Rachel AS Rachel in all of her stabby glory.

(I've seen some comments about episode 13, so I get to see just how bad this one is. lol)

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Continuing my watch-through of AniTV from [here] and just... omfg? 😂

With episode 9 we've got Jake pulling psychological warfare on yeerks by eating escargot in front of them (Visser 3 being squeamish? Really? Like he hasn't eaten people before???? Like he'd actually be disturbed about someone eating snails???? tf????), and Ax's fur somehow being able to demagnetize a card presumably by static electricity.

Right. Like rubbing any card with a magnetic strip on anything with fur 'famously' is a risk for generating enough static electricity for that to be a possible hazard. Like almost-sensually rubbing said card on Ax's chest (which-- a la the-weird-andalite/gorilla-suit-design-that-was-chosen-for-some-bizarre-reason-- has barely any fur) would somehow magically generate enough of a charge for that to be feasible.

Apparently andalites are fuzzy electric eels. lol

This is just... so hilariously bad.

EDIT: AND! AND Ax somehow-- magically!-- was able to 'encrypt' the card so it works as a security card skeleton key just by running a finger over the magnetic strip! What the fucking magical-girl bullshit? 😂😂😂

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just finished watching face off from anitv for the third time cause i was showing it to my friend and i made an AU based on what if they all got nothlitted as the forms they morphed in this special

jake = tom (he can pose as tom sometimes but they have to be very careful about it. can't do a whole lot to help and he's miserable)

rachel = yeerk (tobias is her full-time host and her mission specialty is infiltrating the yeerk pool with him for recon)

marco = cockroach (he is the most miserable. he's on all their non-yeerk pool espionage missions)

tobias = human form (he can't morph but he works with rachel. also a little miserable, but he loves her, so)

ax = blue human (can you imagine them having to deal with that. he'd just have to live in the woods and be their oracle)

cassie doesn't morph anything long enough to be realistically nothlitted so she keeps her normal form and powers. this also means she has to do all the combat, which makes her miserable too

she's also the prime suspect in jake, rachel, and marco's disappearances because she's good friends with them and she was with them on the night they went missing

if this is still set in anitv, there can be a happy ending where they get the disc back eventually, and it gives them their morphing powers back so they can go back to normal. but if this is set in the book universe, unless the ellimist decides to "not interfere" while interfering, this is like. bleak. LMAO

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allegra fulton as visser one in animorphs (1998-2000)

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rachel & marco in animorphs (1998 - 2000)