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[emeraldmew]

another thing that stands out about The Capture?

Jake never fights off Temrash's control. Not so much as a twitch of a finger. There's no heroic will-powering through a Yeerk. There's no just fighting harder than the other weaker minded hosts, so it cuts off the thought of blaming the hosts for just not fighting hard enough in the bud.

The reason we saw the Chapmans actually resist is because they're voluntary hosts so their Yeerks aren't used to keeping the hosts' wills in check. The brief look Jake sees in Tom's face in The Invasion was hard fought to a degree that Jake himself, our protagonist, cannot match.

[ericseviltwin]

starve the ego, feed the soul

[sarahcolleenjane]

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[sackoflower]

i hope we can hang out in my dreams tonight

[doobermcgoober]

Raven / Ayre

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[fuckableobjects]

Fuckable Object #6 IBM ThinkPad 701 Series (1995)

[lotostar]

Big fan of those creatures

[fortuneaday]

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Animorphs #6: The Capture thoughts (pt. 2):

I like how the edited re-release makes everything with Temrash 114 tipping off Ax so much subtler. Ax being 100% sure the vibe is off but hesitant to say it because he doesn't know Jake that well yet, then Rachel spotting that real Jake wouldn't be arguing this hard against being safe over sorry, then Cassie just announcing that she thinks they can pass Ax off as Jake... It all just flows so much smoother than Temrash announcing Ax is "andalite filth" and then trying to play it off as Jake having a hard day, followed by Ax seamlessly becoming Jake. It's more tension-inducing because it leaves the uncertainty of the other Animorphs detecting the controller for longer, and it gives us the sweet moment of Jake desperately grateful that Cassie is "the amazing Cassie... I wished so badly I could tell her right then what an amazingly smart, incredibly cool person she was."

Temrash noting that Marco is "open to persuasion" is creepy as hell, and one of those things I wish we got more follow-up on. I guess #41 strongly implies Marco became a voluntary controller once Jake died, but it's a fascinating character moment, because he's not wrong.

Another update I love from the re-release: the metaphor of Temrash's mind (and his hosts') being like a file that gets downloaded into the hard drive of Jake's mind. It makes sense, and I think most modern kids know what that means.

The moment where Tobias calmly explains that he doesn't have to kill Jake, he just has to put out his eyes to keep Temrash from flying away, has always stuck with me. It's one of the first times we see the ice cold side of Tobias, and it's really the first time we get to see a yeerk being scared shitless of the kids.

"I wondered if he [Tom] would have the strength to hold on. But I knew the answer" (p. 160). Well fuck. God fucking dammit. Why'd you have to end that way, huh Jake? Just when we were edging toward a semi-hopeful semi-happy ending to an Animorphs book where they semi-succeeded in their mission for once. Fucking hell.

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[arundolyn]

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