Tag: animorphs
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The finale of the Animorphs TV show is buck wild (and bad)
It’s been a while since I finished my reread of the Animorphs book series, and just this week I finished watching through the TV show for the first time. I’d seen some of it back when it first aired back in the 90s, and even then I could tell that it just wasn’t good. Having…
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It – Ragnatalk, Gone, and Fallout 76
This week I’ve been way deep into ruined worlds. I’m not really sure why it turned out that all of these came up for me at the same time, but boy I’ve been having fun with media that looks at awful, broken societies. Chuck and Anthony: Ragnatalk This one is a bit of a stretch…
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Thermals: A tribute to pillowy cushions of warm air in The Animorphs
If you know what a thermal is, and especially if you think of them wistfully, there’s a good chance you read the Animorphs as a kid. There’s a lot of things in this series that left an impression on me, but the idea of pillowy cushions of warm air letting a kind, sweet-hearted red-tailed hawk…
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The Animorphs and Politics
Last week I finished reading the Animorphs. I’ve read it before, back when I was a kid, but reading it this time was a totally different experience. Most obviously, I’m older, so a story about a bunch of teens doesn’t read the same as it did when they were closer to my contemporaries. On top…
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Animorphs continues to be buck wild in The Ellimist Chronicles
This past weekend I finished rereading The Ellimist Chronicles from the Animorphs series. I remember this book being a stand out when I read the series before, but I wasn’t sure if that was due to the content of the story or just because it was the last of the supplemental books to come out.…