#is bc of the Andalites. like in Animorphs the Andalites were built up as the Big Good for so long bc of Ax
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Oh my god. With my Animorphs nostalgia revived (and my urge to re-read the series increasing), I just had an epiphany. I can’t believe I never realized it before. I’ve been so blind this entire time.
Shireplica isn’t a clone. He’s a Controller.
#Haggar slipped him a Yeerk. it all makes sense now#(note: this is a joke)#///#////#/////#animorphs#voltron#shireplica#no but in all seriousness honestly . . . i think Animorphs is why i expect more from VLD at times#like . . . more complexity#bc Animorphs was not afraid to Go There™ in any way you care to name#not just with the violence and whatnot#but with all the trauma and what war does to people. how it changes them.#how none of the protagonists were perfect ESPECIALLY by the end#and I think part of the reason why I'm still so suspicious of the Alteans - and why 3x04 feeding into my suspicions was so On Point™ to me#is bc of the Andalites. like in Animorphs the Andalites were built up as the Big Good for so long bc of Ax#(and Elfangor ofc)#but it turns out that the Andalites just wanted to destroy the Yeerks. they dgaf about ANYONE else#they had as much shady shit going on as anyone. not that the Yeerk Empire was good -ofc not! - but the Andalites were not that#stellar either. they were an empirical force themselves#but they were also still PEOPLE . . . and yet so were the Yeerks and just#it was all so COMPLICATED and good#and i wish that VLD had more of that depth. i keep trying to claw that depth out of VLD#but it's just not THERE . . . not as much as it should be#and the fandom adamantly trying to see things in terms of black and white - ''they are evil and they are good'' - just . . .#doesn't help either idk
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dont read this if youre intending on reading animorphs this is spoilers and its actually worth not getting spoiled
i think one of my favorite parts of the animorphs ending is like, in the first half of the series the readers and the protagonists both have this perception that the andalites are going to come and save everyone and that the kid’s guerilla warfare is just buying time for help from above but by the end its pretty clear that the andalites arent the savior figures theyve been led to think and they have to save themselves.
in a worse series, the fact that once the fleet finally shows up they intend on just wiping out the earth for damage control and dont want to save anyone would have been like. a shocking plot twist or something but in this its like theres this steadily building dread that thats how its going to be but you think MAYBE not. and then it happens and its like well built up to and makes complete sense. its this really harsh sort of moment in the general coming of age and loss of innocence theme of the story where they really DO have to save themselves and fight back against their own so called saviors. (and its like a component of the series general “do the ends justify the means” thematics bc technically it Was true that they were wholly devoted to ending the war, its just that they were willing to accept an entire planet as collateral damage to do so)
i dont know why k.a. applegate went this hard like the characters im talking about look like this
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