Seems to be that the Uchiha were all scumbags in the first place who also didn't care about human lives. What Danzo did was horrible, but the Uchiha weren't exactly innocent either.
Also seeing how the Uchiha became your enemy even if you gave them all the love in the world. I mean, if we are to believe the love Naruto had for Sasuke and Sakura as well....and about every girl in the entire series....then Sasuke became a bad guy simply because he is a horrible person deep down.
Sasuke doesn't care. For a clan that many in this series claimed to be "all about love and loving too much," Sasuke is extremely apathetic to feelings of love.
Then again, this series doesn't make sense and any and all reasons Kishimoto has is pointless and moot. You have a clan that thinks revenge is the ultimate form of love in the world. The Uchiha are incredibly emo and gothic clan. Dark hair, lots of black clothing, red is the only other color including eyes....I bet they have a Konoha Hot Topic as well.
Although, to be fair, in real life it is not much different. The world is full of opposites.
Those who preach tolerance are usually the most intolerant.....and many other examples.
So I wonder, if you really look at real life...how many people in this world who some think are "good people" are actually scumbags who talk big, but are evil at heart? Probbaly most politicians....and CEO businessman....and...*goes trailing off for 3 hours listing hundreds of types of people*
Well, yes, the whole "love" thing was mostly an attempt to whitewash his previous portrayal of them and shift the blame elsewhere. Late game Naruto is filled to the brim with this crud. Up until the point where Sasuke got to meet the Kage's (fromm Suigetsu and Juugo found magically lodged up their rear) the series portray of the Uchiha had been almost universally negative. Sasuke's father was an ass who planned a coup. Itachi murdered them all. Madara attempted a coup himself. Sasuke was a revenge seeking traitor. Obito started a war and planned to subdue the whole world with another Uchiha. I think that's why the Tobirama stuff got thrown in too. There were attached one way or another to every single atrocity in the Naruto universe. A story of redemption involving them neededsomething to try an undo that.
If the series weren't so clearly trying to a late game rehabilitation project on the Uchiha behalf (I mean, Sasuke even meeting them was a contrived POS), the Tobirama part might have worked. It's one of the few moral dilemma's raised at that point the series that didn't completely suck. I can understand why the Uchiha would chaff under constant supervision from a government that didn't trust them. I can also understand why Tobirama (and the village) didn't trust them. He reluctantly went with his brother's plan only to watch Madara bail on the project and then mount a coup of his own.
This whole situation is ripe for a whole series of misunderstanding and mistrust that could easily be self-reinforcing on both sides. Given that this appeared to last more than a generation, it's doubtful anyone had clean hands, but, of course, that's not really a good scenario for a series that was activity trying to protect certain characters. Had this been brought up in Part 1 I would have thought Kishimoto was doing a good job. Since it was during the manga's collapse, I'm not sure the interest components were just an accident that grew out of his attempt to blameshift his way out of a mess.
On the other hand, this also grew out of a need to help explain how evil Itachi wasn't evil. I liked evil Itachi and could have lived with selfish-bastard Itachi if the series had been willing to call him that. Instead we got a guy who was a selfish SOB portrayed as good. The other characters just smiled and waved (I'm looking at you Naruto). It still amazes me that no one appeared to have any idea how "good" Itachi came across. Rather than have unclean, complex, characters we have to have redemption and it has to be good.
