AniTV
"The Reaction"
Basic
Plot:
Cassie and Rachel rescue a young boy from a crocodile pit at the zoo. But, since the
incident, Cassie has been itchy...and morphing involuntarily. The girls are invited to
appear on a morning TV show, but if Cassie's not careful, she'll end up morphing on
national TV!
Based
On:
Animorphs #12: The Reaction
TV-Book Differences & Nitpicks:
I realize they put Cassie in the main role because there are already so many centering on Rachel, but it dosn't seem right doing Cassie. She's supposed to be the best morpher, which shows her relationship to animals and the earth. Rachel's morphing trouble can be given an allegorical definition of her powers being "out-of-control," except in a very literal sense.
The alligator does not appear to be extremly dangerous or life-threatening. It's nothing like the 15-foot croc described in #12. I'm guessing three feet. I realize a real large-sized croc would be dangerous to work with, but it's been done. Besides, if you're going to do a show about people changing into dangerous animals, you'd better be willing to have those dangerous animals on the set. Why couldn't they have done some of the same stuff as with the tiger? The least they could have done was filmed the croc in its own scenes and pasted it into the real scenes. The reason I'm going on about this was that it was really irritating seeing them getting into a horrible panic over a three-foot aligator.
Jeremy Jason McCole is Jason John McCole in the show. You can't tell me this was some kind of legal move -- both names are equally made up!
All the crocodile-aligator jokes from the book are lost. The snake pit?
No seagulls-to-the-yacht-and-morphing-in-the-ocean scene. That part was seriously cool. But I'll pay everyone $20 if they do an actual scene involving the ocean in AniTV.
The
teeny little aligator was "burped" in a bathroom stall (no fair! I was looking
forward to a DNA-conversion scene) and made its way to the studio. JJM gets terrified and
his Yeerk's survival instincts kick in. The crocodile eats it instead of Rachel stepping
on it (which was supposed to be signifigant, oh well.)