Animorphs (TV series): Difference between revisions

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* [[Complexity Addiction]]: The Yeerks only rarely use Dracon beams, presumably for budget reasons.

** Or maybe because the 'Dracon beams' are just glorified flashlights.

* [[Cutaway Gag]]: In "My Name Is Erek" Ax is left out of the mission because he's busy... [[Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|making salad]].

* [[Cutaway Gag]]: In "My Name Is Erek" Ax is left out of the mission because he's busy... [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|making salad]].

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Most glaringly for Christopher Ralph, the 22-year old actor playing ''thirteen-year old'' Tobias.

** Although the characters are older than their book counterparts, as they are clearly in high school. They appear to be more along the lines of 15.

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* [[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.

* [[No Budget]]: Painfully obvious in some scenes. [[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp|The slug-like Yeerks were, well, slugs]], [[Off-the-Shelf FX|the Dracon beams were merely repainted flashlights]], and the Andalites were played by [[People in Rubber Suits]].

* [[No Budget]]: Painfully obvious in some scenes. [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|The slug-like Yeerks were, well, slugs]], [[Off-the-Shelf FX|the Dracon beams were merely repainted flashlights]], and the Andalites were played by [[People in Rubber Suits]].

** It's also painfully obvious that there was only one Hork-Bajir costume, and the Taxxons never appear as they would clearly be impossible on the show's budget.

* [[Oxymoronic Being]]: Erek the Chee, who in the show is is allergic to ''his own hologram crystals''. To put it into perspective, that's like a computer being allergic to its own keyboard.

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* [[Villains Blend in Better]]: Averted. In the books, it's said that Yeerks can perfectly imitate their host's behavior so that not even those closest to them can tell the difference. In the TV series, Controllers show clear differences in behavior from their hosts. For example, Principal Chapman says that he hates a pet cat that he once loved, which makes his daughter suspicious. Ax also says that he can tell who's being Controlled by looking in the host's eyes.

** Oddly enough, it's averted in the [[It's a Wonderful Plot]] episode "Not My Problem," which actually has two surprising twists about characters being Controllers. It's a good thing they weren't this effective in the real world.

* [[Written in Absence]]: Rachel during most of "The Message," when she's supposed to be [[Visit By Divorced Dad|visiting her dad]].

* [[Written in Absence]]: Rachel during most of "The Message," when she's supposed to be [[Visit by Divorced Dad|visiting her dad]].