Chapter 8
Left alone in his the, Alderpaw... Sorry, I shouldn't have found this funny, but its the first thing I read and it gave me the giggles.
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Again, Alderpaw doesn't know how he should feel about the vision he received. He doesn't like feeling important, and wonders what the other -more important- cats will do with the information he has given.
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And enter injured cat Cherryf- no? Not Cherryfall? Oh, Cherryfall is telling him that Sparkpaw is hurt. Oh noz! Not Sparkpaw! Maybe she will get injured like Cinderpaw did and be forced to become a medicine cat too.
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Ok, so the next paragraph says Alderpaw rushed out of the den and instantly started running towards the ShadowClan border. Does that mean they never used the camp entrance or something? I can imagine him just plowing through the bramble wall.
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Hey look, it's Ivypool! Ivypool and Hollytuft(bad named cat) are with Sparkpaw. Looks like Sparkpaw really is hurt- her paw is pointed at an awkward angle- she really is going to be made into Cinderpelt number two isn't she.
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Oh... it's just dislocated. Pshhh, forget that. What's the point of all the build-up just for nothing? We already know Alder can heal- he fixed Cherryfall up just last chapter.
"It feels so much better. Thanks so much, Alderpaw. You're turning out to be a great medicine cat."
Ughhh, gag. There was no point to this whole scene- it was 100% filler.
Yup, and its already over and Alderpaw is heading back to camp. There was no point in that except to hammer in the fact that Alderpaw is a medicine cat to all the brain-dead readers who hadn't figured that out already.
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As he's about to reenter camp, he sees Bramblestar there. He thinks he's in trouble again- of course he does. He should be in trouble for being such an uninteresting character.
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And Bramblestar s like "the actually important cats told me about your vision. You have to go save SkyClan now because obviously that's what StarClan wants. Aparently, Leafpool Jayfeather, and Sandstorm all believe Alderpaw is destined to find SkyClan or whatever...
And now a few paragraphs explaining SkyClan...
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His pelt was growing hot with anger at what SkyClan had suffered, and he dug his claws into the ground. Oh please, Alderpaw, that's a bit of an overreaction. Nobody cares about SkyClan that much. Just look at the ratings and sales for anything SkyClan related and how it compares to the other archs.
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"But listen, Alderpaw. What happened to SkyClan is such a secret that only three living cats know about it: Sandstorm, me,a nd now you. That means you can't tell any cat what your real quest is really about- not even Leafpool and Jayfeather-" Fox dung to that! Just a few paragraphs befor it said me and Leafpool were completely on board for Alderpaw to go on this quest, and now all of a sudden we don't even know what the quest is about? Isn't that kinda something the med cats should know about? And how the hedge does Bramblestar even know about SkyClan? He was still a puny apprentice when Firestar went off to find SkyClan... All of this is bogus.
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"You just have to have faith in me," Bramblestar mewed gently. "Tellling the truth now would cause more harm than good-" Fox! #$ no it wouldn't! Nobody would even care! Well, I know what the apprentice's quest is going to be about now. Only took 108 pages to make that clear. This book is only 296 pages...
And that's the whole chapter. A huge amount of filler leading up to an overly convenient and overly exaggerated conclusion. The stars had to aline perfectly just to make it possible for Bramblestar to tell Alderpaw about SkyClan. Don't forget the series of convenient tropes in the last chapter that made Alderpaw describe his vision to Sandstorm in the first place.
And I still can't figure out how Bramblestar knew about SkyClan. I want to belive Erin Hunter is just making that up so she doesn't have to actually work on a clever story, but I'm going to do my research before I post another chapter just to make sure.
-Jaybae out!