Animorphs

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Animorphs.

Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.

The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begin taking violent, morally devastating actions that end their lives as they know them.

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Mulling Over Morphs #45 - The Revelation (sh.itjust.works)

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The beginning of the end,

what an insane series.

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Marco abandons Nora to the yeerks to make things simpler for his biological mom and dad to get back together.

It's real dark. Cold blooded.

They boil a yeerk pool.

Tobias forced to explain how torture changes someone, since he's been through it.

There's so much foreshadowing and a lot a bit of of murder, man this was an exciting, desperate tale.

I love this whole last run, they capture the shock of Marco revealing himself so well.

If you aren't going to reread the whole series, you will not regret rereading this one.

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[–] TheBlindPew@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been listening through all of the audiobooks since December and just finished this one. I never managed to get through the whole series as a kid, so this one was a first for me and Wow.

Safe to say after this one that the safe episodic status quo has been completed shattered, I know the series does a good job with serializing most of its big elements to be regular parts of the series like the chee and the elemist and krayak etc, but this one definitely feels like the start of the end game

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

You nailed the analysis here. This is definitely where things get real and then keep getting crazier.

There are a few points where the storied naive adventure spirit tries to reestablish a foothold, but there is an irreversible, looming atmosphere of perilous, mournful tunnel-vision insanity from this point forth.

It's very impressive how faithful the authors were able to remain to their vision for the series and their empathy for child soldiers and war=bad.

Yikes. strap in!