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Okay, Captain America but Marco gets cast as Bucky Barnes.

Do you think Jake and/or Tom would like Captain America Winter Soldier?

Jake: On the plus side, there was a lot of really interesting commentary in that movie. All the stuff with the U.S. trying to justify itself by presenting the Soviets as inhuman monsters, while also hiring Nazi intelligence officers to teach them Nazi science, was so cool. And upsetting, but also cool!

On the minus side, they didn't show Falcon flying nearly enough. Also they should've stuck closer to the comics with Bucky's story. Like, I get why the movie makes the Red Room German and has them zap Bucky to change his personality. But the comic book story is so much more on theme! Bucky is this ultra-patriotic American soldier, then he loses his memory in an explosion, and then the Red Room tells him he's a Soviet soldier... and he immediately flips to being ultra-patriotic for the USSR, without his personality or ideals changing at all. It's creepy and nifty and way more interesting than him getting his brains fried with what some stupid Hollywood director thinks electro-shock therapy is.

Tom: So look. I may have missed some things while texting during the boring parts. But. Bucky came back from the dead? Then Zola came back from the dead? Then Nick Fury came back from the dead? Then Crossbones came back from the dead? I know this was a superhero movie, but for fuck's sake. At some point I was expecting the guys Cap shot to start popping back up 10 seconds later like nothing happened.

Also, was it just me or were parts of it, like, super homoerotic?

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my take it on it is, the rules of morphing as set out in the series heavily implies he's got to barf them all out, but that for the sake of the plot if that had happened it would have been one philip and he would have lasted as long as the buffa human.

Sorry if this have been asked before but if Ax was tragically allergic to human DNA, would he have to barf up a Marco, Cassie, Jake and Rachel or just one Phillip?

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It’s October! You know what that means... 🎃 (via kxvo)

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You could make it more Animorphs Tragic. Grandpa G did in fact fight in both world wars and was one of those kids who lied about their age at 13/14 to sign up for world war 1 and that both sides of Jake's family have Giant Tall genes making it conceivable that grandpa G was tall enough to enlist while being suspiciously babyfaced but no one looked too hard into his actual age. Thus making the potential that Jake survived ramming the blade ship even more tragic because he spent his youth fighting one war, will spend his adult life fighting another, and will die alone and tormented by this in a cabin in the woods just like his great grandfather.

I will never be over Jake mentioning that his great-grandfather was in World War II, and Marco casually going "oh yeah, me too, WWII sucked real bad." I know this is the 31st book in the series and all, but it literally never gets explained in context.

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here is my morphing/controller question that has been bugging me for ages

Okay, say you're a yeerk and you've just got yourself a brand new hork bajir host but oh? what's this? this hork bajir is actually someone in morph! ah hah! you've solved the "andalite bandit" problem! You now control the morphed body of an animorph! Hooray! You've won the war!

except you control the morphed body, you're not wrapped around the brain of the actual morpher. The morpher is still in z-space being a flesh balloon.

So here's my question, can the morpher still control the morphing/demorphing aspect of the morphing technology because presumably that resides in z-space with them with their free non-infested brain in the flesh balloon thus making it safe from yeerk control? Or can the yeerk also control the morphing technology? Which leads to the follow up question, if the morpher or the yeerk do demorph what happens to the yeerk? do they get incorporated into the morph like clothes? do they come back as themself every time? or does the morphing technology just make a genetic copy so now that morph has a blank slate yeerk in its head forever?

I'm assuming that the yeerk won't be incorporated into the morpher's original body the same way Ax's human morph's clothes are never incorporated into his original body. And that the yeerk can't access the original brain the same way morphs can't bleed into the original brain when they aren't in morph.

anyone have any thoughts? theories? wild accusations?

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There's a line where Wolf mentions that putting a wolf in prison is the worse thing you can do. Which has always led me to assume that Wolf was like that because he'd spent a long period of time in prison and was basically one of those zoo animals that pace obsessively or rip all their feathers out or run themselves to death on an exercise wheel because their enclosure and diet don't meet their needs.

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there is no way that Virginia hasn't put it together that Wolf has eaten at least one person at some point in his life which makes their speed run romance even funnier. like what does she say to her grandmother when they return to new york? Hi grandmother! Remember that guy who's really into eating people? Well, surprise! We're engaged for real now!

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guess who rewatched the 10t kingdom i say as I reblog 20 posts in a row

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This series was my fucking JAM.

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Thinking about Virginia Lewis violently sobbing while saying, “And I feel like I was on a train and it crashed or something and no one came to rescue me,” about being abandoned by her mother who due to repression she doesn’t remember tried to drown her before she disappeared.

Thinking about her saying this to her father, Tony, who came home just barely in time to save his daughter and who kept the truth of all this secret so that Virginia could keep the memory of her mother untainted by it.

Thinking about Virginia reuniting with her mother, Christine, who denies that Virginia is her daughter and then attempts to strangle her all the while portraying just how broken, unwell, and manipulated Christine is.

Thinking about Christine trying to kill Virginia but getting killed in return, in self defense, and Virginia holding her as she dies, “Don’t die. Just remember who you are,” as clarity comes far too late in one last terrible hallelujah, “Don’t cry. My little girl. My little girl.”

Experiencing many emotions about it.

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The craziest few minutes of television EVER is the Lovely Shepherdess Competition in the 10th Kingdom. Sexy "Little Bo Peep" and the sheep version of "We Will Rock You" (it's now "We Will Shear You" because of course it is) and just. It's a fever dream.

It's just so very odd.

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Theres a specific feeling to being introduced or finding something that becomes your hyperfixation but the community for it is either too old to be posting about it or too small.

So now I get to sit here and suffer while hyperfixating on THIS stupid silly little manwolf

and THESE cringe-fail trolls!

And everyone who follows my account will have to suffer seeing them and me talking about The 10th Kingdom because this is my account and I do what I want!

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I love that the version of Snow White we get in this show is older and fatter than how she's portrayed in most other adaptations.

I get that technically it's Snow White's ghost, and she says herself that she's more of a fairy godmother type of character now.

But they could have chosen a young and conventionally pretty actress for this part and it wouldn't have changed anything to the story, so I'm glad they still decided to go in this direction.

And considering how goofy this show is a lot of the time and how so much of it makes fun of fairy tales tropes, they could have very easily gone all "haha look Snow White is old and fat now, isn't that funny". But instead, the scene where we see her is one of the strongest emotional moments of the entire series, and it's played 100% straight.

Idk, this show is far from perfect, but this is one thing that honestly still feels very refreshing to see even twenty years after it first came out.

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THE 10TH KINGDOM (2000)

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I love that the version of Snow White we get in this show is older and fatter than how she's portrayed in most other adaptations.

I get that technically it's Snow White's ghost, and she says herself that she's more of a fairy godmother type of character now.

But they could have chosen a young and conventionally pretty actress for this part and it wouldn't have changed anything to the story, so I'm glad they still decided to go in this direction.

And considering how goofy this show is a lot of the time and how so much of it makes fun of fairy tales tropes, they could have very easily gone all "haha look Snow White is old and fat now, isn't that funny". But instead, the scene where we see her is one of the strongest emotional moments of the entire series, and it's played 100% straight.

Idk, this show is far from perfect, but this is one thing that honestly still feels very refreshing to see even twenty years after it first came out.

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i really can't express enough how delightful these actors are