If they set it in todays world yes they need to deal with the fact everyone has a camera in their hand and making it part of the morph tech would be a good day of dealing with it. As for why it didn't in the first place, well the Andalites (or at least Ax) did view books as more high tech than computers so maybe they didn't have cameras.
The world is a very different place than it was 25 years ago, the books will need to be updated.
Ax views books as high tech because they don't have a chance to glitch (granted, someone could have changed his mind pretty quickly by rippling up a few pages) but they're very digital/technical, and they were in a war against the Yeerks. I think it's safe to say they understood the concept of surveillance. In any case, since morphing was defined as a spy technology even in the original books, making it that it also jams or freezes communications/surveillance tech in some way is a pretty logical fix that would make sense given its purpose is a spy technology. It would have made more sense in the 90s world that way as well, because CCTV and other surveillance cameras were already prolific in retail areas.
In some ways, 2020 kids would be much more cautious than 90s kids, so it would be more believable. E.g. - back in the 90s, the NSA scandal hadn't happened yet, but that hindsight 20/20 and suspicion of being watched means the kids would probably be a LOT smarter about communicating over the phone. The 90s version of Animorphs would honestly probably have gotten caught... Very quickly. I mean, the Yeerks don't tap the phones of their hosts' houses, even when one of them suspects their host's brother might be an 'Andalite bandit'? Nah. 2020 Animorphs have burner phones and communicate in code by some secure app that deletes messages after twenty seconds or something. They don't trust the human tech any more than the Yeerk tech.
Anyway, I hope it goes so much better than The Attempt That Shall Not Be Named.
I think it was a bit more than normal, but part of that is probably the 20/20 hindsight that our conversations were regularly being listened to by US government branches, let alone a species with advanced technology, that only made the news when I was in like, 8th grade. But yeah, some of those plotholes could actually be done better than they were back then.
I guess really I'm glad the fandom isn't dead yet.
Yeeeeaaaaaaaah, so many plotholes and mistakes from those factors. And later in the series, people would accidentally project facts from the TV shows onto the book series, e.g. in one book Jake is a Bengal tiger (what they use in the TV show, if I recall correctly) whereas in book one it's a Siberian tiger, very specifically, the largest of the big cats.
(Bengal tigers are the smallest subspecies of tiger. A Bengal tiger isn't going up against a lion.)
They admitted they didn't do a series bible before starting and since they churned out a book per month they and the ghost authors probably only had like a week or two to really work on it, so I don't really blame them. But I'd like to see it get more effort in this day and age.
But for movies, they're probably going to have to cut out stories like David and Aftran completely. The stories took place over multiple years, there's just so much to try to cram into movies.
That's by a series of movies would be great, David could have his own movie and Aftran would be a bit part in a couple movies before getting her own. it would be cool but sadly not to likely. Can Netflix just make it a series?
If they make it a movie and it's successful... Maybe Netflix would make a TV show?
I sort of agree though I feel like a lot of Netflix book-to-film does pretty well. Ah, it could be kickass. But I keep just being so happy it's not dead!
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The world is a very different place than it was 25 years ago, the books will need to be updated.
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In some ways, 2020 kids would be much more cautious than 90s kids, so it would be more believable. E.g. - back in the 90s, the NSA scandal hadn't happened yet, but that hindsight 20/20 and suspicion of being watched means the kids would probably be a LOT smarter about communicating over the phone. The 90s version of Animorphs would honestly probably have gotten caught... Very quickly. I mean, the Yeerks don't tap the phones of their hosts' houses, even when one of them suspects their host's brother might be an 'Andalite bandit'? Nah. 2020 Animorphs have burner phones and communicate in code by some secure app that deletes messages after twenty seconds or something. They don't trust the human tech any more than the Yeerk tech.
Anyway, I hope it goes so much better than The Attempt That Shall Not Be Named.
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I guess really I'm glad the fandom isn't dead yet.
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Give the age it is nice to know there are still fans.
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(Bengal tigers are the smallest subspecies of tiger. A Bengal tiger isn't going up against a lion.)
They admitted they didn't do a series bible before starting and since they churned out a book per month they and the ghost authors probably only had like a week or two to really work on it, so I don't really blame them. But I'd like to see it get more effort in this day and age.
But for movies, they're probably going to have to cut out stories like David and Aftran completely. The stories took place over multiple years, there's just so much to try to cram into movies.
But yes! The fandom's not dead yet.
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I sort of agree though I feel like a lot of Netflix book-to-film does pretty well. Ah, it could be kickass. But I keep just being so happy it's not dead!