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pigeonclaw · 2 years

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I forgot to make a post about it til now, but in Onestar's Confession, Tallstar going to the Moonstone to confirm Crowpaw's story and being told by StarClan "yeah he's right, you'll never get your home back so you need to leave" makes me even more exasperated at the plot of Midnight. Already that book baffles me in hindsight because I misremembered it for years — I believed that the journey to Midnight was to not only strengthen bonds between cats of each Clan to help everyone work together, but also to point them in the right direction of a new home because the lake was so far outside StarClan's sight that the Clans needed an outside source of information.

Turns out I was wrong. The whole journey was just so Midnight could tell them to leave their home, and they had to figure out where to go entirely on their own. (Sure they had a shooting star help them out but it's not like StarClan couldn't have predicted that too.) But if we have confirmation by this point (also confirmed in Shadowstar's Life) that StarClan already knew they had to leave, then what was the point of all that??? All they really accomplished was stalling the great journey for multiple books and letting a bunch of cats suffer and die needlessly. I don't agree with the idea a lot of people have that StarClan and all these characters should simply (and uncharacteristically) work together and flawlessly avoid conflict, I like conflict, but I want a reason for it. The case of Midnight is just so unfortunate. It's such a mess that could have so easily been streamlined into something that makes more sense, but it just... wasn't.

#anyway i have such complicated feelings about tnp. i enjoy the concept but the execution of the first half wasn't great #dawn is one of my least favorite main series books bc the vast majority of it is spent finding excuses to stall the journey #only for the journey to take place over a few chapters at the end #i would have absolutely loved the journey portion to be longer and actually showcase the clans bonding and working together #instead of basically just telling us later after speeding through the whole thing #anyway my impression of onestar's confession so far is that it's just meh #it's not as bad as i was expecting but it does feel like someone looked up all the scenes of him on the wiki and stitched them together #i'm extremely baffled at them making ashfoot and morningflower his littermates #while looking for something else recently i found an old facebook post of vicky's #and one thing she said is that ashfoot and morningflower were onestar's siblings from an older litter #and if they have to be siblings then that makes a lot more sense to me #considering that morningflower at least is supposed to be getting old by the beginning of the series and onewhisker is not #but of course nothing in this book is especially well thought out. on the plus side it's not as bad as leopardstar's honor lol #pigeon mews

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