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Post by WhispersintheMist on Apr 9, 2018 13:20:59 GMT -5
Now, I've been thinking about this a lot and even talked to some people about it, when the idea occurred to me that it would make a good thread discussion. So, a few people I know, including my younger brother and his friend, were going on Warriors pretty strong, but when they reached Midnight they quit the series because it was apparently boring. A couple of others also quit because of the journey, and I have to admit I can understand why. I personally find the journeys very dull and race through them so the characters can get back to their home and I can get back into my zone. Anyway, how do you guys feel about journeys?
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Post by foxstride on Apr 9, 2018 13:27:17 GMT -5
Overdone. Repetitive. Not always handled well (why are the journeys to a place so much more difficult than the return? Yes, they'd know some of the threats on the way, but sometimes the returns are completely brushed over, and the difficulties they have on the first journey are typically not ones that will constantly be there. I just want one return journey even more difficult than the journey to a place, and the sun-drown-place return didn't even feel like a journey back, it was just another journey to).
I'd like to see less about journeys and more about cats in different biomes - that's what makes FanClans so exciting, because we explore the rest of the world and aren't quite as stuck with the same cats, knowing exactly what will happen in the plot next due to its similarities with their hardly-cold ancestors. The journey in Dawn of the Clans felt refreshing because it felt like new territory, even if it wasn't - we had the battle against the leaf-bare snow, and a different path to go by.
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Post by Moonblazer on Apr 9, 2018 15:22:24 GMT -5
I'm the opposite. I love journeys and TNP was by far my favorite arc. It was thrilling to read of the clans leaving everything they knew and starting over in a new home.
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Post by Brindlefern on Apr 9, 2018 15:59:00 GMT -5
I'm the opposite. I love journeys and TNP was by far my favorite arc. It was thrilling to read of the clans leaving everything they knew and starting over in a new home. Same, I actually really liked the journey stuff in TNP. The only book I didn't enjoy in that arc was "Moonrise" but that's only because books focused on the Rushing Water Tribe are a slog for me to read through. But I enjoyed the journey to the sun drown place in Midnight, and to the lake in Dawn (My fave of the 2nd arc), though the latter book was also heart attack inducing for me because that book gets rather crazy with the twolegs destroying the forest and the cats having to get the F out of there in the middle of it all. lol I even liked Starlight because it was just a nice slowdown after Dawn imo, and so on, because it let us see the clans find and settle into their new home after the struggle of leaving their beloved forest. I can see how they can get boring and repetitive however. But idk, I'm just another of the few that liked TNP because of the journey. Seeing new places, the struggles the characters deal with in-between, and all that.
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Post by Mayflower on Apr 9, 2018 18:15:35 GMT -5
I was bored in Midnight and Moonrise...I've read every Warrior book legit hundreds of times, but those two, I always skip, since I don't find them all that riveting.
However, I enjoyed Dawn, Starlight, and Twilight because of the new struggles we had with everyone getting along, and new places to explore and make their home in. Then I realized how annoying the lake is, and how separate the Clans are due to it. So now I halfheartedly want them to move again somewhere that they can all be connected once more. Right now, ThunderClan is just stuck with WindClan and ShadowClan, leaving RiverClan out. A place where they're connected again might help that, but it can't be done by the lake, unless it dries up, which was a huge plot on its own in TFA. If there's just one last journey, I might be okay with it, since it'd have a purpose. The journeys we've had recently -- like to the Tribe twice in PO3 and OOTS -- are useless.
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Post by ✲ριкαƒυєу✲ on Apr 9, 2018 19:35:44 GMT -5
TNP is actually my favorite arc. So many people hate it, but I love it. It's the last arc with the forests, and the first with the lakes. It's also a turning point in the series itself.
Granted there are things about it I don't like, or think could have been better. But overall I love TNP arc.
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Post by Firestorm on Apr 9, 2018 22:05:33 GMT -5
I really enjoyed TNP, even on my re-read through the series, though that could have just been nostalgia -- I was pretty young when TNP first came out and those were my favorite books at the time. I don't particularly enjoy other travel scenes. TNP was a pretty good arc overall.
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Post by wolfcry32 on Apr 10, 2018 0:59:40 GMT -5
I loved TNP- at least the traveling parts.
I like journeys in general, but it’s better when there’s a new element- environment or danger- is involved. I want to see them encounter a bear or something.
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Post by 𝓣𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓵 on Apr 10, 2018 1:05:22 GMT -5
I never really liked the journey books. It kind of feels the same almost every time, so it just gets boring.
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