TerrorKing

If NS had been canon but everything else about the ending had been exactly the same, yes I would have been upset. I care more about the dignity of individual characters then i do about my OTP becoming canon.

He is right, let it go already. It's been almost one year already if I recall correctly.

 

The people in this fandom are copying what nh and ss fandoms were doing for the past years and that means flaming, contesting and crying because of every little and not-so important detail. m-muh kishimoto's waifu said she isn't happy with nh&ss

 

THAT doesn't matter to the story, she has no right to tell him what to do; wife or not.  

Being angry and upset is not the same as "flaming, contesting and crying". The ones who engage in that kind of stuff either gets called out or ignored. It's true that pairings aren't really important to the overall story. That's not the only thing the anti fandom talks about. We also discuss how the characters themselves were butchered, how the themes don't make any sense or how the story seems to support some rather questionable ethics and morals.   

It's not just that Kishi's wife apparently wanted NS to become canon, but because of the way Kishi tried to appease her by saying that she was really based on Hinata, when in fact she has more in common with Sakura. Apparently, he didn't even care that she was able to call his bluff. She wasn't trying to tell him what to do. She was just offering an opinion. which she has every right to.  

And that's really what it all comes down to. Kishi has every right to do what he wants with his story and everyone else has every right to tell him that his story sucks. You're not immune from criticism, even if you are a highly succesful mangaka. 

Hard to believe that it's been a year now.  To think that there was a time when I still considered the Naruto series to be good. It all seems so distant now.

What would happen is that it would further divide the fandom (If that's even possible at this point). The fans who supported the ending would most likely leave and there is no guarantee that the ones who left the series would come back. 

Besides, merely changing the end pairings won't solve all the other problems that the ending brought about. It would just be the same kitten with different pairings. 

Keep in mind that I'm not against changing the ending, if it's done correctly. However I don't think Kishi would be able to pull it off without making things much worse. 

I was open to it, but I did not expect it. 615 was a wasted opportunity for NH. All it showed was that Hinata was very much in love with Naruto and that Naruto didn't feel anything special for Hinata beyond friendship. Then later on we got 631 with the girlfriend comment and overall it felt like Kishi was reaffirming what the true canon pairings were. I'm aware that Kishi later stated that 615 was in fact supposed to bring Naruto and Hinata closer together and that NS was merely a red herring, but that kitten doesn't count because that's not what was shown in the actual story. Show, don't tell.

As for SS, the final chapters basically just showed us why SS wouldn't work. Sasuke even said that he wasn't interested in Sakura at all and that he didn't understand why she was interested in him. That was in 693, seven chapters before the ending. 

If Kishi's intention was to show us that NH and SS would be canon, then he did a pretty poor job.