Morph Club: An Animorphs Podcast! – Details, episodes & analysis

hi everybody! carey here on behalf of megan and carey  with a quick logistical note. morph club is switching from soundcloud to anchor for episode hosting! the old episodes will still be accessible  once we redirect the feed, so it should hopefully be a seamless  experience on the listening end. But most soundcloud episodes will be  hidden once we downgrade that account, so if you have any deep-seated  attachment to them or any comments you made there, now is the time to  download and save them yourselves! especially episode #22,  megamorphs 2, which anchor refused to recognize and import, so maybe we accidentally stumbled on some truth about yeerks in there that the  world wasn't ready for?? we'll leave that ep up on soundcloud.

So in the future, you can find the show archive at anchor.fm/morphclub, or in any of your podcast listening apps. and we're always on twitter at morphclubcast!

it  was a treat to look back at old eps while we were switching over- these  books are very dear to us, and so was this show, and so was hearing  from everyone who got to connect with other animorphs fans over it. that  really meant a lot to both of us!! so, as always, thank you. ok, that's  it! hope you're all hanging in there ok. it morph club out! byeeeee!

It's the wrap-up episode! We build a full-on red string bulletin board map of Crayak & Ellimist plots, answer your questions, talk about some wonderful fanfics (bit.ly/morphfics), and touch on what we have planned next. And of course, we circle back around to the Morph Club Thesis: did you know that Animorphs is an extremely good series? We think so. Spread the word. We'll put the first couple eps of whatever we do next in this feed for you to check out, and until then, find us elsewhere online: twitter.com/morphclubcast twitter.com/megthebrennan twitter.com/careydraws Thanks for listening! It's been really special to make this journey along with all of you. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey read book 48: The Return! In which: Rats are irresponsible financiers. Teens are foolishly trusting. Wartime challenges are considered. Morals are grappled with. So are horrible controllers, because Rachel and Visser 1 have an all-out, no-holds-barred cage match*! *Rachel is imprisoned in a literal cage. Nobody has a good time. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Brace your pods, Megan and Carey read the Ellimist Chronicles with Hanni Brosh! (@saffronscarf) Honestly, who foresaw that the Ellimist's backstory was being a bird person who lived on a hovering crystal and plays endless games of Spore? But now that we're here, there's no choice but to get our hearts broken by a horrifying and strangely hopeful space adventure. Wanna think about the nature of life vs entropy? Want to feel the clock ticking down before one of our fave kids straight-up dies? Most importantly: wanna get nostalgic for the feeling of reading this book at age 13?? Join us! Intro & interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey read Animorphs 47: The Resistance! Jake sure does have a great-great-grunkle who fought in the Union army in the civil war, huh. He sure does read a journal all about it interspersed with the present-day action in this book, huh. We talk through and about that storyline and its pitfalls in the first ~25 minutes of the ep, and then devote the rest to our sad, sad present-day teens, who are desperately fighting alongside the free Hork-Bajir to protect their valley from a full Yeerk assault. It goes about as well as you'd think. BUT! Don't lose hope! There's still time for a camping trip and an engineering adventure! Well... Sort of. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors)
both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Carey & Megan read Animorphs 46: The Deception! Remember when Ax discovered the magic of flavors? Remember teaching him how to act like a regular teen? Those days are super gone and our alien friend is making horrible decisions that make nobody happy. Turns out war with aliens is just not a fun time, who would have thought? But man, do we love these kids. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey watched episodes 23 & 24 of the Animorphs TV show! It's the penultimate batch of tv episodes!! Can you believe it!! Breakout stars include: Ax's big TV-original-mall-sitcom debut; Visser 3's brief but deeply appreciated appearance; a whole bunch of really excellent 90s outfits; An Actual, Factual Bear; a 10-shot closeup headshot sequence; and the tantalizing promise of a SCHOOL DANCE FINALE. Hang in there, folks! There's still time for a shopping montage in the final two episodes! Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

It's the beginning of the end and Marco has a very terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Join us as we talk about Animorphs #45: The Revelation. We recommend checking this book out before listening, it's worth wading through a bunch of filler for. We're coping with the intense stakes and heartbreaking consequences by focusing on things like: Ax eating a bunch of oreos purchased by a dog robot family and the fact that canonically, the kids all got to hang out with some nice dogs for a while there. While, you know, Marco's heart broke into 10 million peices. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey read book 44: The Unexpected! Which it certainly WAS. We allowed ourselves to hope, for one brief moment, that Cassie going to Australia might be part of some kind of... relaxation break. Perhaps one of your human "Vacations." Tragically, we were, as always, completely wrong. BUT DON'T GIVE UP YET! The battle wages on!! We found a lot to like in this book: Cassie draws on her absent friends to make it through her ordeal; foraging for equipment and food to survives takes some unexpectedly sweet cargo-hold turns; we don't spend TOO long hearing about how buff and horrible kangaroos are; there's one last bittersweet blissful mall decompression at the very end; and no good dogs die. On-screen, anyway. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

We knew from the image of the Taxxon on the cover that this book would be rough, but we weren't really ready for....this. Megan & Carey survive The Test, wherein Tobias and friends are having a REALLY bad time. Like, seriously, a traumatized-by-war level bad time. Join us in clinging to the fun of Computer Club in the Woods, food court feasts and Rachel picking a cool girl outfit. But life's getting real tough out there for our favorite andalite bandits. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)