Springertrap
Since: Feb, 2015
05/14/2015 00:00:00
You know, I adore Warrior Cats. At the same time... I can't help but nod along to all of your points. In the first arc, one of the things I liked best was how cryptic Star Clan was. It definitely made it more about the clans believing in their ancestors based only off of cryptic dreams and signs that may not have really meant anything, and they had to believe with all their might that maybe they were real. Their involvement in later arcs, I agree, made Star Clan too much of a concrete force. I also agree with you that once interesting characters had a habit of becoming very dull and bland later on. I still adore the series as a whole, but I can't really argue against any of these points.
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There are a lot of problems
As a fan of Warriors, I read at least thirty of the Warriors books and up til now enjoyed them, especially arc one and two. But my initial love for the series has pointed out to me what is wrong with it. I've lost interest; I stopped reading Warriors after five arcs in. I don't mean to turn potential readers away from the books, but I must mention these things:
- Deaths are often glossed over or cheap.
- Previously main or prominent characters become wooden or nonexistent.
- Firestar was the star of the show in the first arc and had his own super edition. He's done a lot more in the series than most of the main characters written. And yet he's nearly nonexistent within the third and fourth arc up until his sudden importance in the climax of The Last Hope, and subsequent death You also have characters like Sandstorm and Graystripe where sometimes it's debatable if they even showed up in a book. For people who may have enjoyed some of these characters, they seem to up and disappear, and we don't see much else of them. Now, people may point out that the old must make room for the new, but there is still enough room for the old and new characters to still shine through. But the books seem to be too focused on the not-as-interesting newer characters.- Three cats gain powers that are hardly needed throughout the two arcs or the climax of the story.
- Too much padding in the third and fourth arcs.
- You can cut out a lot of the content in the books and it would just save your time and paper. A lot of this consists of patrolling, hunting, and very little content related to the actual plot.- Repeating subplots. Too many subplots.
- A lot of these subplots that are set up often go unfinished and leaves unanswered questions.- Star Clan gets too involved with the Clans.
- That's one of the most majorly upsetting things I see from the books. Star Clan was involved in the first arc as more or less cryptic spirit guides for the cats, believed to be all powerful but it isn't really acknowledged, which is fine. But as the series progress, they become more involved and less guiding, as they often argue among "themselves" and frequently mess with the main characters, and their actions and reasons are often convoluted.