Animorphs (TV series): Difference between revisions

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* [[Age Lift]]

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The setting. Ostensibly set during the late nineties, the computers seen recall late eighties tech and the movie they see in one episode is straight out of the fifties.

* [[Bad Dreams]]: In a rather bizarre callback to all the nightmares the kids go through in the books, one episode opens with Marco having a nightmare about being chased by a T-Rex. This has nothing to do with anything, and it's been speculated that it was a last minute change from him being chased by a Hork-Bajir (the T-Rex makes the same sounds) when they couldn't use the suit for whatever reason (the T-Rex is stock footage from the stop motion short "Prehistoric Beasts"). This makes it tie with the [[Magical Negro]] scene from "Tobias" for worst [[~~Big~~ ~~Lipped~~ ~~Alligator Moment~~]] in the series.

* [[Bad Dreams]]: In a rather bizarre callback to all the nightmares the kids go through in the books, one episode opens with Marco having a nightmare about being chased by a T-Rex. This has nothing to do with anything, and it's been speculated that it was a last minute change from him being chased by a Hork-Bajir (the T-Rex makes the same sounds) when they couldn't use the suit for whatever reason (the T-Rex is stock footage from the stop motion short "Prehistoric Beasts"). This makes it tie with the [[Magical Negro]] scene from "Tobias" for worst [[Non Sequitur Scene]] in the series.

* [[Bottle Episode]]: "Tobias," which only features Tobias and Ax, and is nothing but character material. Unfortunately, it didn't work out very well and is one of the worst episodes.

* [[Chickification]]: Rachel again, as part of her [[Badass Decay]].

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* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: The fandom's reaction to this show. Even the author hated it.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Compared to the books. Most episodes were rated PG, and later ones were often G.

** This resulted in some very clumsy [[Shadow Discretion Shot~~|Shadow Discretion Shots~~]] when it came to the gory scenes.

** This resulted in some very clumsy [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]s when it came to the gory scenes.

* [[Long Bus Trip]]: Eugene Lipinski's Visser Three never came back for the second season.

* [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]]: Visser Three in spades. He spends almost every appearance in his vulnerable human morph.

* [[Magical Negro]]: Randomly shows up in "Tobias" to offer encouragement. May double as a [[~~Big~~ ~~Lipped~~ ~~Alligator Moment~~]].

* [[Magical Negro]]: Randomly shows up in "Tobias" to offer encouragement. May double as a [[Non Sequitur Scene]].

* [[Making Use of the Twin]]: When Ax morphs Jake so that Jake can be tied up while his Yeerk is starved. Shawn Ashmore's twin Aaron Ashmore appears in the one scene with two Jakes.

** It's also speculated that we're seeing Aaron in all the other scenes of Ax-as-Jake, but information is scarce.