"It is happening again" In 1990 Twin Peaks captured our hearts and imaginat… Read Full Bio ↴"It is happening again" In 1990 Twin Peaks captured our hearts and imaginations, and now 27 years later David Lynch and Mark Frost are primed to do it again. Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show and Ron Richards of iFanboy come together to re-watch, re-visit and re-analyze TWIN PEAKS in its entirety leading up to and including the new season coming May, 2017.

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@torren5950

12w↑1

Happy to give my perspective. Please note I'm very bad at guessing what other people like so my advice might be spectacularly bad.

Ellimist is a good suggestion -- it's strengths are its imaginative world building, and its isolated enough from the main series that it should work as a standalone. Its shortcomings involve it not really having a climax--it just sort of fades to the present with Toomin talking to the "unknown" dying Animorph. That's great if you're already invested in the series but without it I'd be concerned it would just seem to fizzle out. Also the 'wink-nudge' moments like creating the Pemalites and living among pre-evolved Andalites would lack the punch they're meant to have.

My pick for a standalone would be Visser. As mentioned in the vid, it's the only book where all the central characters are adults; it sets up the motivations and tactics of the antagonists and sufficiently explains itself. When the Animorphs show up for a few critical chapters near the end it's like getting to watch a morally questionable superhero team at work, from an outsider's perspective. The biggest downside is it spoils most of Marco's arc.

Now if you want to cheat: Animorphs books are usually ~25k words. The first novels in the Percy Jackson, Artemis Fowl, Twilight, and HP series average out to ~90k. So, 4 main series titles is equivalent to the first book of one of those big YA series. So do books 3-6... and then try to persuade him to do 7 with the promise that things finally go well in that book. Book 1 is poorly paced IMO and summarized in almost every book; book 2 is completely nonessential and Rachel's character is soft-rebooted in book 7. Book 3 is where KA found their voice and the famous coded suicide attempt tends to hit for adults really well.

Finally, the audiobooks are shockingly good and you can easily listen to one book in the time of two moderate-length podcast episodes, and I think that's an easier way to draw people in vs. sitting down reading.

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@cgalsaccount829

13w↑2

1:17:18
It's in the Ellimist Cronicles. He goes to our solar system and finds a younger Earth and a Mars with life on it. Crayak was trying to destroy it, but the Ellimist stopped him.

@torren5950

13w

Oh, hey... chapter 28. Thank you! I thought to search the text for 'Mars' but not 'red planet', which would have found this passage. I guess that means in this universe, Marco is right about the fossils. If you don't mind I'd like to add your comment text to the video description as an update.

@cgalsaccount829

13w

Don't mind at all!

@yaitz3313

13w↑12

I have never in my life been so excited to watch a video with 13 views.

@MANJYOMETHUNDER111

13w↑6

I'm glad you're making videos that appeal to specifically me.

@jacoboniaplay

13w↑2

That entire Viagra/anti-aging commercial was GREAT writing. "Only your guide tree will know the difference"?! Dude. So many underrated moments in this. 😂

@torren5950

13w↑3

Thanks! The last 20 minutes was really fun to put together... made up for the more tedious for sure.

@AnimorphsUniverse

13w↑1

A grand effort!
I was just talking about the "Rachel using her own arm as a club" thing today, and you're exactly right about it: upon re-reading, it's disappointing. I think it's a Mandela Effect that most fans had; that it was actually something was saw happen in the book

@torren5950

13w↑3

I think all of my long form Animorphs videos need to come with a special thanks to Lord Ravenscraft's trilogy of Animorphs vids. His breakdown of how exactly that scene plays out (or rather, doesn't play out) in the book was essential. I've tried not to subconsciously repeat any of his observations verbatim but it accidentally happened at least once in an earlier video. So far no one's called me out on it... shhhhhh

@jacoboniaplay

13w

Didn't Rachel also do this all the way back in book 10? During the big fight at the end just before Erek saves the day?

@AnimorphsUniverse

13w

@@jacoboniaplay Not that I recall... Pretty sure it was just 32.

@AnimorphsUniverse

13w

@@torren5950 Your secret is safe with me! ;)

@torren5950

13w

I just re-read it... it's the second half of chapter 24. Rachel slashes open a Hork-Bajir with her still very much attached paw. After Marco blacks out and wakes up afterwards, Ax says he lost an arm but Erek re-attached it. I wonder if those two bits were confabulated?

@ani_anonymuncle

12w

I had so many thoughts to share about this extremely long and extremely rich video, but they were all blown out to Z-space at that ad for Andalite Viagra

@The_PokeSaurus

13w↑1

I get home from work and the first thing I see is Torren spoiled me by actually doing the iceberg video. Yep, 2024 is starting off amazing for me.

Well here's my joke entry in any future Animorph Icebergs. Animorphs predicted C.M. Kosemen's book All Tomorrows.

@Halen2020

12w

Animorphs was my childhood, and there is NOT enough attention on it in modern times. The way it ended was such a fucking ball kick. It ended on a cliffhanger that the author declared would never be explored, with the life of Ax hanging in the balance, and this was the same book where Rachel died polar bearing the fuck out of a space ship, and Tobias fucked off into the woods basically forever because she was all he had to live for and Cassie gave up fighting forever.

@MANJYOMETHUNDER111

13w

YO YOU A BEAST WARS FAN TOO? I'd be highly excited to see transformers content from you

@torren5950

13w

I'm afraid I've got some good news and bad news for you. YES, I am a Beast Wars fan. But...

That is literally the only Transformers content I have any familiarity with. Never seen the original show or Beast Machines etc.

@MANJYOMETHUNDER111

12w

@@torren5950 Not missing much with BM. Beast Wars is and will always be unique.

@torren5950

12w↑1

That matches the impression I've gotten about Beast Machines. Hearing about what they did with Rhinox immediately after the real high that BW went out on soured me on the whole premise.

Fun fact: as a kid I discovered BW by accident simply because it was on WB right before Pokemon, timed to start right when I got home from school (in retrospect, 100% intentional on the part of the network). I missed the series finale because I was 12 and my mom called me out to vacuum the house. Didn't get to see it properly until I got it on DVD well into my 20s.

These are the kinds of anecdotes that should go into a video if I ever make one...

@MANJYOMETHUNDER111

12w

@@torren5950 The development of BM was really strange and corporate meddling reared its head in a VERY odd way.

I used to watch it at night before going to bed. Primal was my personal fave, but David Kaye as Megatron... there's a reason he was cast as Arishem in the Eternals.

@lestibornes6478

13w↑4

Oh, we can request stuff? How about Animorphs Analog Horror series then?

@torren5950

13w↑2

Wow... wondering how I could pull something like that off. In the meantime, the last 15 minutes of this video are about the closest I'm likely to get for quite awhile.

Fun connection: A24's Backrooms movie currently in development in being co-produced by Shawn Levy, who directed 5 episodes of the Animorphs TV show, including possibly the most analog-horror like episode: The Leader, where the Pool Ship looks like a garage and they destroy the Kandrona with wrenches in a room that looks like a different garage.

@lestibornes6478

13w

Talk about a small world. I've actually had a more than few ideas for a potential series, my favorite being Thoughtspeak being able to be recorded on film but as a terribly spooky noise. But I'm still trying to figure out how photoshop works so that's a looong ways off.

@The_PokeSaurus

13w

@@torren5950 This is my fault!

@torren5950

13w↑3

You burdened me with glorious purpose

@samcoulter1997

12w

The howlers are basically really really destructive cats. They play with their prey.

@torren5950

12w

Well that's how I'll always think of them now. Thanks!

@The_PokeSaurus

13w↑1

I'm so sorry you had to read that part with The Backstreet Boys + Ax...

@torren5950

13w↑2

I legit was dreading that category, wondering what the hell I was gonna do for it... and then my wife and I re-watched Napoleon Dynamite.

@The_PokeSaurus

13w↑1

@@torren5950 Godzilla bless her for helping you through this.

@jenniferdeutz4460

13w

Low key want to have my husband watch so he can understand my feeble attempt at explaining these books when I did my first re-read last year (since I read them as a kid).

@torren5950

13w↑1

Watch it together. Pause and explain your favorite categories in more depth or correct things you think I'm wrong on. It'll be a bonding experience (or a real test of the relationship... either way)

@jenniferdeutz4460

12w

Love it! Follow-up question (if you have time- no worries if not) @@torren5950 If you had to recommend a single book for non-fan to read what would it be? My vote was Ellimist because it's so bonkers and like Toomin my husband is also a filthy casual gamer.