Post by vbfdoee on Sept 8, 2012 17:17:50 GMT -6
I understand if people either didn't read the New Prophecy arc or only fuzzily remember it. To make a long story short(er):
Twolegs are going to destroy the forest in order to build a new road. StarClan, knowing that this will happen but not knowing a place to which the Clans might flee, pick four cats to go on a magical quest to talk to a magical badger named Midnight. She just happens to speak cat language and commune with StarClan, and she knows a place where the Clans could stay.
While the six of them (a couple other cats tag along just because) are trekking across the English countryside, the Twolegs are bulldozing an improbably large section of the forest and scaring off the little woodland creatures that the Clans rely on for food. The chosen cats return from their trip just in time to convince the Clans to go on a long, hard journey while everyone is near-starved to death. This makes sense.
Well, they make the journey and have some soap-opera drama later on that never really stops. What I'm interested in is the question of whether or not this whole matter was even necessary.
Firstly, the Clans moved into the forest before the Twolegs did. This is mentioned as far back as Into the Wild, if I recall correctly. They were there when the Twolegs built the first Thunderpath and the Twolegplace adjoining the forest, and they obviously withstood that. Sure, SkyClan were driven out, but they were having a town being built directly on their territory. In The New Prophecy, it was just a new road being built across the forest. Hardly comparable, no?
I alluded earlier to the improbability of an entire forest being bulldozed just to build a road. That's not how it works. That's obviously not how it worked when the first Thunderpath was built; otherwise, the series would never have happened in the first place!
Not to mention that feral cats can and do survive in developed areas (towns, etc). There are certainly birds, small mammals and insects that a cat could catch and eat, in addition to plentiful human garbage. It's more questionable whether a Clan could survive in such an environment. BloodClan was more a collection of thugs who extorted prey from the local cats and claimed to be a Clan.
I'm really not sure if a true Clan could survive in a Twolegplace. However, it's pretty plain that the whole plot of the Great Journey seems contrived. There's no reason why the building of a Thunderpath should be catastrophic now when it wasn't in the past. The only justification is the Erins wanting a change of scenery to fuel a few books.
Anyone have any competing ideas? Have I said anything completely wrong-headed?
Twolegs are going to destroy the forest in order to build a new road. StarClan, knowing that this will happen but not knowing a place to which the Clans might flee, pick four cats to go on a magical quest to talk to a magical badger named Midnight. She just happens to speak cat language and commune with StarClan, and she knows a place where the Clans could stay.
While the six of them (a couple other cats tag along just because) are trekking across the English countryside, the Twolegs are bulldozing an improbably large section of the forest and scaring off the little woodland creatures that the Clans rely on for food. The chosen cats return from their trip just in time to convince the Clans to go on a long, hard journey while everyone is near-starved to death. This makes sense.
Well, they make the journey and have some soap-opera drama later on that never really stops. What I'm interested in is the question of whether or not this whole matter was even necessary.
Firstly, the Clans moved into the forest before the Twolegs did. This is mentioned as far back as Into the Wild, if I recall correctly. They were there when the Twolegs built the first Thunderpath and the Twolegplace adjoining the forest, and they obviously withstood that. Sure, SkyClan were driven out, but they were having a town being built directly on their territory. In The New Prophecy, it was just a new road being built across the forest. Hardly comparable, no?
I alluded earlier to the improbability of an entire forest being bulldozed just to build a road. That's not how it works. That's obviously not how it worked when the first Thunderpath was built; otherwise, the series would never have happened in the first place!
Not to mention that feral cats can and do survive in developed areas (towns, etc). There are certainly birds, small mammals and insects that a cat could catch and eat, in addition to plentiful human garbage. It's more questionable whether a Clan could survive in such an environment. BloodClan was more a collection of thugs who extorted prey from the local cats and claimed to be a Clan.
I'm really not sure if a true Clan could survive in a Twolegplace. However, it's pretty plain that the whole plot of the Great Journey seems contrived. There's no reason why the building of a Thunderpath should be catastrophic now when it wasn't in the past. The only justification is the Erins wanting a change of scenery to fuel a few books.
Anyone have any competing ideas? Have I said anything completely wrong-headed?