but the moment I see a NaruHina or SasuSaku fan going "OOH! IN YOUR FACE! WE WERE SO RIGHT! YOU GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF LOSERS! TAKE THAT!" it just frustrates me to no end.
Maybe -- maybe -- the SS fans were right, but the NH fans were never right. I don't even see how they can continue to argue they knew it or gloat.
They are simply the beneficiaries of Kishimoto choosing Sasuke over Naruto. If Naruto had been allowed to remain the central character of his own story, then he would have won the girl he loved as he should have done.
The arguments of the NH camp are as hollow and baseless as they ever were. As I've said, the movie PROVES they were wrong. It's going to PROVE that Naruto never loved or considered Hinata in the manga. The movie is a pandering excuse to explain this incomprehensible decision to pair him with her instead of Sakura. That's all.
The worst part about all of this? The most hilarious part about all of this is? If you made NS and SK canon, none of this would be happening. You wouldn't need to have to re-adjust the story or try to explain it farther just to "make it work." it was already there, nothing needed to be fixed, but they instead decided to go the worst route and over complicate things and really beat down every character just to suit the fancy of one pairing.
Exactly, James. It's such a shocking, inexcusable disappointment.