Episode 47: This Episode is Mostly Rants
Animorphs #47 (The Resistance)
In this episode:
Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss The Resistance
Approximate Rant Tally:
Jenny: 4
Ted: 5
Gray: 9
This book was a wasted opportunity, especially as we get to the end of the series
The depiction of Trekkies
Jake is a true monster in this book
The nobility of war
Let's get into it: It's Civil War Rants Time
(a.k.a. Gray does Wikipedia research)
The Hork-Bajir battle is a bad analogy for the Civil War
90s lip-service to color blindness
“Both sides” bull-shirt
A few things we do like, including ominous omens
The Smurfette problem
An extremely plausible plan to flood the valley
Marco x Ax is now canon
Jake needs a nap
The cover of the next book breaks Gray’s predictive abilities
References:
U.S. Colored Troops on Wikipedia
Hardtack and Coffee on Perseus
The Smurfette Principle on TV Tropes