First of all i dont see the sasuke turning good part as bad writing because i believe theres more to it. I wait till the story is over to decide if it was bad writing for this part.
The thing is that naruto himself told sakura that he believes shes lying about her feelings for him and still believs that she loves sasuke, but now suddenly he is dead serious about her beeing his girlfriend. That simply doesnt fit.
The only possibility i see about the scene is like KnS posted, that he just isnt really sure whats going on between him and her right now, so he says "yeah thats more or less it".
First: Wait, you're waiting to see what happens before you see Sasuke as bad writing, but automatically claim the NS scene as bad writing before seeing the outcome of the manga? Isn't that a double standard?
The reason why I hate Sasuke and think he is nothing, but bad writing is because he seems to get away with everything and he changes based on stupid reasoning. We are lead to believe that Naruto is supposed to change him, but it seems like everyone, but Naruto can change him. We have scenes of him being completely psychotic and then the next he is as he usually is. He was always a jerkass, but the fact that he stabbed Karin and tried stabbing Sakura and did the whole "I don't care about anything, but revenge" stick is still stuck in my mind and it feels like that was nothing.
When you have fans literally hand waving scenes away it becomes a problem.
And on the note of Naruto saying what he said, I want to show you more useless dialouge: Itachi said that he was leaving Sasuke to him. Well, honestly, he didn't. People try to convince me that Naruto will end up changing Sasuke and what not, but I would have believed that if he still wanted to destroy the village. Now, he wants to follow his brothers wishes and be Hokage? Nothing Naruto did changed Sasuke in the slightest and here already we have Sauske do a major change just because his brother said something to him.
It wouldn't bother me so much, if Kishi didn't try shoving down our throats that Naruto was supposed to change him. I feel this change should have been from Naruto's influence, not Itachi's. We also have Sasuke being a copy-cat villain. He wanted revenge against his brother, then he turned into Orochimaru and wanted to destroy the village. Now he wants to be a Madara and rule it?
Now Sasuke seems more like an opposition rather than a villain. A villain tries to break down the heroes moral or world whether ti be for gain, fun, or whatever. This just seems like Naruto is aiming for goals and Sasuke is standing the way for that. I'll admit, I never wanted Sasuke to be apart of this war, because it feels like even he doesn't want to be there. Why is he there? Does he care about people? Does he think that if the world is destroyed he can't be Hokage? Does he want to build the world in his image?
We all know a big twist is coming, but I find this to be a huge let down. I am not eager to read the Naruto vs Sasuke fight because I feel it is going to be nothing. It's a lot more fun when it is a fight to the death and the hero is put through the ultimate test. This doesn't feel like that anymore.
Second bold:
*facepalm*
You realize this is what everyone has been trying to say and you just downright denied it till this point right?
Edited by James S Cassidy, 30 May 2013 - 09:31 PM.