#The Invasion

[reality-detective]

"The Invasion" and it's NOT just in America 🤔

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William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Le Guêpier, 1892

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Hi, not sure if this would count as a tpk au. But in the Invasion, what if Jake never walked home with everyone through the construction yard, but instead was driven home by Tom? Would it be more of a sibling bonding moment or would Tom sucker him to join the Sharing?

Hmmm. Based on MM4, I'd say:

Marco would quit, and stay gone. If there isn't someone he loves on the line, no way is he insane enough to go to war.

Cassie would quit as well. She's not a fighter, and she knows the decisions they'd face are too big to resolve ethically.

Tobias would declare that he doesn't need anyone else, and he's fine fighting the war alone. Then he'd get stuck in morph.

Rachel would acquire an elephant, go down to the yeerk pool, and die fighting 400 taxxon-controllers.

So if it's just Tobias and Ax left after the first week, and Tobias can't morph... yeah, all right, this is just another total party kill.

[doctorooh]

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from Isobel’s perspective the Invasion is so funny. You think a girl is cute so you invite her to do a photoshoot while her weird friends visit your uncle for some reason. Then when they take ages you go to visit the Shadowy Corporation your uncle works for, blow up a computer, and immediately get kidnapped by said Shadowy Corporation. THEN you’re rescued by the cute girl’s weird friends in a helicopter and suddenly you’re working for a clandestine military group trying to stop metal men from blowing up the world. All of this happens in 1 day.

[strangers-in-space]

Man of Fashion!

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My boys 💙💙❤️

[gurumog]

Doctor Who: The Invasion (1968) BBC Televison Wri. Derrick Sherwin, from a story by Kit Pedler Dir. Douglas Camfield

[demigodofhoolemere]

Happy birthday, Wendy Padbury!

[dailyclassicwho]

DOCTOR WHO (1963) — 6.12 “The Invasion: Part Two”

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Jamie McCrimmon: *exacerbated* Women!

Benton: *bewildered acearo himbo expression*

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Series info:

Book 1 of Animorphs

Book 2: The Visitor

Book 3: The Encounter

Book 4: The Message

Book 5: The Predator

Book 6: The Capture

Book 7: The Stranger

Book 8: The Alien

Book 9: The Secret

Book 10: The Android

Book 11: The Forgotten

Book 12: The Reaction

Book 13: The Change

Book 14: The Unknown

Book 15: The Escape

Book 16: The Warning

Book 17: The Underground

Book 18: The Decision

Book 19: The Departure

Book 20: The Discovery

Book 21: The Threat

Book 22: The Solution

Book 23: The Pretender

Book 24: The Suspicion

Book 25: The Extreme

Book 26: The Attack

Book 27: The Exposed

Book 28: The Experiment

Book 29: The Sickness

Book 30: The Reunion

Book 31: The Conspiracy

Book 32: The Separation

Book 33: The Illusion

Book 34: The Prophecy

Book 35: The Proposal

Book 36: The Mutation

Book 37: The Weakness

Book 38: The Arrival

Book 39: The Hidden

Book 40: The Other

Book 41: The Familiar

Book 42: The Journey

Book 43: The Test

Book 44: The Unexpected

Book 45: The Revelation

Book 46: The Deception

Book 47: The Resistance

Book 48: The Return

Book 49: The Diversion

Book 50: The Ultimate

Book 51: The Absolute

Book 52: The Sacrifice

Book 53: The Answer

Book 54: The Beginning

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Évariste Vital Luminais (French, 1821-1896) The Invasion, n.d. Museum of Fine Arts Boston

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

As I'm starting to reread Animorphs, I'm beginning to think that if Tobias was a bit more assertive, he would probably be a better leader than Jake... After all, Tobias was the one who was wholeheartedly committed to the war since the beginning, he also just generally seems to be in the right for the majority of the series. Am I off on this?

Although Tobias is definitely the one pulling them into the war in those first couple books, I don't think he's leader material.

Setting aside his repeated assertion (in #13, #29, #37) that "I'm nobody's leader", Tobias is too independent and uncompromising to keep the team together. You know that episode of Avatar where Toph keeps insisting that "I carry my own weight" and does take care of herself... but the whole point is that her insistence on not relying on others can also be very self-centered? That's Tobias. He's every bit as tough and self-sufficient at Toph... and his determination to always to his own self be true means that he can sometimes miss when his refusal of help is hurting the team.

Like, look at Tobias in #1. He says over and over "We have to do this". But the moment Marco says "We could all get killed!", Tobias dismisses him as "some kind of coward." It's Jake who persuades Marco to at least try morphing, Jake who finds a middle ground between "We find the Yeerk pool... blow it up and kill every one of those evil slugs" (Tobias's suggestion) and "pretend it was all a dream" (Marco's). Jake deals with opposition through voting, through compromise, through insisting that everyone hear everyone else out. Tobias deals with opposition through "Whatever you guys decide, I'm going to fight" — and he means it. If all the others are out, Tobias really does plan to fight the war alone (#3).

And then look at how that first battle goes. Jake is the one who keeps track of time, and keeps track of his team. Tobias is the one who morphs early and ignores the others half the time. Jake moves the mission parameters from "kill all yeerks" to "save Cassie and Tom". Tobias still wants to save everyone. Jake calls a retreat, even though he's maybe leaving his own brother to die. Tobias refuses to retreat, until it's too late.

Tobias values freedom above all else, even when freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose." It's his greatest strength, and it's the reason he cannot lead a team.

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