Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss Animorphs #34: The Prophecy.

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Lauren discuss Animorphs #33: The Illusion.

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Animorphs #32: The Separation.

Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss Animorphs #31: The Conspiracy.

Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss Animorphs #30: The Reunion.

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Jeremy discuss Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret

The second mailbag episode! In which Jenny, Ted, and Gray respond to reader questions and comments and revisit predictions, rankings, and character assessments just past the series midpoint.

Book 29: The Sickness

In this episode:

• Guest Host Emily used to play Animorphs in elementary school

• Book 19: the Sequel

• Gray is irrationally angry

• Cassie is a BAMF

• Who gets to be the leader if Jake is out of commission?

• Yeerks are gross

• A brief immunology lesson

• Jake/Cassie/Marco OT3?

• A Yeerk pyramid scheme

• Andalites are the size of ponies or tiny deer

• Nice is neat

Book 28: The Experiment

In this episode:

• Thematic plot holes

• Slaughterhouses are bad but they’re worse in real life

• Grazers and hunter gatherers

• Sentience, sapience, and free will

• Cow corner

• Ax gets a TV

• The shipping gets out of control

• Moses facts(?)

• KA Applegate and the hosts reflect on vegetarianism IRL

• Jenny crowns the new tallest Animorph

Book 27: The Exposed

In this episode:

• We evaluate Rachel and Tobias’s banter

• Rachel’s issues with violence and normalcy

• How are the ghostwriters affecting character dynamics?

• How are the Animorphs still alive??

• The Drode’s true motivations

• Some more gross morphs (even Jenny thought so)

• What was really going on with Pemalite nonviolence?

• Some high-quality funny adventures

• How does the acquiring trance work?

Book 26: The Attack

In this episode:

• The Animorphology council decides: Crayak rhymes with Kayak

• Small things that matter

• Created species and symbiotes

• The Iskoort are v. annoying

• How much are the Ellimist and Crayak interfering?

• More about the Howlers

• Jake <3 Cassie

• Marco gets gutted

• The Chee’s moral obligations

• Jake’s leadership

In this episode:

• Jenny, Ted, Gray, and guest Kevin discuss the first ghostwritten book in the Animorphs series

• Minor character revelations such as Ax developing a true sense of humor and Marco acknowledging Rachel/Tobias

• Effective coping strategies as the war escalates

• How many damsels Rachel has

• Chlorine-based life forms

• Being really cold and being warm again

In this episode:

• HBC through the lens of post-colonial theory

• Why didn’t the Andalites build a quantum virus to infect the Yeerks?

• Yeerks probably had more culture once

• It turns out we have more to say about intelligence

• The Hork-Bajir home world is really cool

• How big is an Andalite, really?

• A letter from a fifteen-year-old to his nine-year-old self

Book 24: The Suspicion

In this episode:

• Another guest host: Rena!

• Helmacrons are very silly (as is this book)

• What does Marco need in a partner?

• Lots of description of items at a large scale, some of which make sense

• Science corner!

• Lots of different whales

• Helmacron technology

• Everyone go get a ruler and see how big 1/16 of an inch is

• Math happens

• Godzilla anteaters

• Can Andalites grow mustaches?

• Ted’s favorite prediction so far

Book 23: The Pretender

In this episode:

• Title talk

• Visser Three’s method acting

• Yeerk gender

• What does Rachel’s confession mean for the Tobias/Rachel relationship?!?

• Shorms

• Tobias realizes that humans are animals too

• The Council of Animorphology votes on the pocket universe theory

• What is a metaphor…

• Rabbit vision

• Jake is less ruthless than a four-month old

• As always, some 90s moments

The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (part 1)

In this episode:

• We share our feelings on Dak & Aldrea’s romance

• How important is intelligence, really?

• The Andalite patriarchy is not our fave

• Hork-Bajir children grow up suspiciously fast

• Visser Three is perhaps a nerd

• Can you ever go home again?

• Gray uncovers all the Animorphs Easter eggs

• We have a surprise two-parter!

Book 22: The Solution

In this episode:

• What happened to Germany?

• David continues to be the worst

• The Animorphs find a solution

• A fate worse than death?

• Rachel and Jake’s relationship

• A dramatic reading

• Toxic masculinity strikes again

• What Would Gray Do?

• The importance of solidarity

In this episode:

The Animorphs face the consequences of a bad decision

In this episode:

The morphing cube is found; a new Animorph is created; and everyone makes truly terrible decisions.

In this episode:

• Jenny, Ted, Gray, and guest host Claire closely read The Departure, discussing premise rejection and what we owe to each other

• Why is this one so good, you guys??

• The toll that war is taking on Cassie and the Animorphs

• Cassie’s moral instincts and the imperative to change

• Plot holes and earned happy endings

• Yeerk empathy, society, and gender

• Ableism in character, metaphor and worldbuilding

• Parasite morality, predator morality, android morality, and humanism