Name: My biggest problem with Warrior Cats
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When it comes to flaws with the Warrior Cats books, usually my biggest issue is overlooked.

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It's probably true for at least the second and fourth series,

both of which seem written as they went along, but they're always at least passable,

Reading the books for the first time, the plots are never so bad that they're disruptive, only disappointing.

"The cats have dumb names" is a petty, barely applicable problem to have, especially with it being

incredibly subjective in the first place, but it's always the first thing I hear

when you ask somebody what's bad about Warrior Cats.

Sorry, buddy, the names have been quote-unquote "bad" since the first book.

"There's too many forbidden relationships" is another tiny, annoying thing people always say.

The series was built on forbidden relationships.

If you've got a problem with it, ya shouldn't be reading Warrior Cats.

There's more forbidden relationships condensed in the first series than there are in any other set,

and by the standards it's set, it's really a shame in my opinion that this issue

has never been seriously tackled or questioned by the cats as a whole.

But my biggest issue with Warriors isn't the world they're in, the way the cats

don't follow realistic behaviors or genetics, or any sort of issue with the plot or storyline.

And people believe that I don't like Warrior Cats, but I promise you that if I didn't like it,

I wouldn't be here making two videos a week about how good Spottedleaf smells.

If my single, sort of complicated issue was solved, I would be able to overlook every other issue.

The other problem here is that I'm not sure what to call it,

but I'll give an attempt with "lack of realistic community."

I've talked about this briefly in other videos and in streams

(actually I think extensively in streams),

but I figured I'd give it a little bit more attention.

Within Warrior Cats, there's a very specific lacking character element.

We have huge clans, some with forty to sixty cats, where there's nearly no gossip.

No rivalries, no cliques, and romance that needs to be read between the lines to even register as a romance.

While the first series is passable in this element,

(if not, just for how Tigerstar divides ThunderClan),

starting with the second series, there's less and less of it.

Cats barely have friends, there's very little note made about who's friends with who or who doesn't get along,

in fact, beyond the plot relevant resentment carried by Ashfur during the second series

there's barely any animosity between ThunderClan cats at all.

Rivalries between cats like Berrynose and Lionpaw are so loosely covered that they're hard to even remember.

There's usually no climax, with these situations ending in barely tied strings

or passing comments at the end of any given series.

As soon as an element of clan life is covered, it's out of sight, out of mind.

Things are introduced to distract or derail our main characters,

and then forgotten about as quickly as they came.

For example, Twigbranch spends most of the first half of The Raging Storm

extremely frustrated with training her apprentice.

You would expect that an element of this book would be her learning how to treat her,

learning how to properly understand her apprentice, learning to be a better mentor.

Maybe actually interacting with or having a heart-to-heart with the cat she's teaching.

But instead this is forgotten about and covered in past tense every time it's brought up.

"She'd learned that her apprentice worked better when they were in an unusual part of the forest.

Fresh stimulation seemed to keep her focused, and so, whenever she could,

Twigbranch challenged Flypaw with tricky battle moves or prey that was hard to catch."

"Flypaw was taking her time, but Twigbranch resisted the urge to hurry her on.

She knew that the young she-cat did her best when she was allowed to go at her own speed."

Okay Twig, but how did you learn that? When? It's boring to have these things told and not shown,

especially when it's time that you could have spent on Flypaw's personality,

on developing her as a character, on... you know, just giving this world a little bit more... of a realistic feel,

and I don't mean realistic in a sense of cats that look like cats or cats that act like cats,

I mean realistic as in realistic for a society of sentient beings with health care

and friends and enemies and relationships.

We're left with clans full of cats that are just placidly coexisting.

There's nothing going on when the cats aren't having a fight.

The cats never have personal problems smaller than knowing when somebody's plotting a murder.

In The Raging Storm, the same book that forgets about Twig's apprentice issues halfway through,

Twigbranch had a little bit of a rocky relationship with her mate Finleap.

The resolution of which was that Finleap and Twigbranch should be talking to each other

instead of just assuming how the other feels and should act.

Not having conversations is plot relevant here,

but it's also something that applies to the whole of Warrior Cats.

I can't remember the last time there was a minor character about,

and the character we're following so much as said hello.

Hollytuft has been there your entire life Alderheart, the least you could do is introduce yourself.

When cats do have personal problems, they're usually ignored.

Nothing eats away at these cats enough for them to actually confront others.

And when they do want to talk to another cat about their problem, they're always conveniently stopped.

"Oh, you can't tell Cinderpaw she's Cinderpelt!

You know, even though that would make Cinderpaw a more interesting and relevant character.

Even though it would only take a minor excuse or a minute of explanation

to prevent her from going back to the life of a medicine cat.

Even though we never do anything, anything at all with the plot point

that Cinderpelt's ghost is possessing Cinderpaw's body."

A lot of the conflict in Warrior Cats is unnecessarily dragged out just by the fact that

everyone is too secretive to tell anyone else anything.

Although, recently, this secretiveness has been replaced by the leader and medicine cat

won't believe me-ness, which is just as annoying.

There's one example of interesting personal drama in all of Warrior Cats in my opinion,

And I'm not saying it's great, it's filled with the same issues that the rest of Warrior Cats has.

Sudden undeveloped relationships, ignored conflict, the works.

But unlike other Warrior Cats personal drama it was interesting.

I'll run through this quickly just in case you haven't read the books.

Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw quickly and briefly become a couple late in Dawn, and they fight like so.

Squirrelflight says, "Brambleclaw, your brother is evil and manipulating you."

Brambleclaw says, "Squirrelflight, you are an unreasonable and hysterical woman."

Squirrelflight is upset by this, so she goes and hangs out with Ashfur