Darling husband was pretty inappropriate given even Sasuke is like "yeah, this weirdness that is our family is my fault" like really, I don't know what excuse the manga plot is using but we know nothing about what makes this relationship work. We know Sakura loves Sasuke to a fault because everyone, even Sarada now, does that in this manga, but... they've been seperated for twelve years.
Her calling Naruto her dear friend does not bother me aside from the fact he doesn't really act like it anymore given you know, barely mentioning her. He is her friend. Then there is Sasuke, who is her husband. It's those qualifiers that just seem off given everything else we've seen. Darling and dear? Sakura, you've barely been with them at all.
To be fair toward Naruto for a bit; we don't know to what extent the two families interacted. The thoughtlessly forgetting Sarada's situation is a big red flag but maybe they do see each other every now and again. Maybe they're just busy with their respective careers but when they do get the chance they reminisce, but with family and work life they don't get a lot of chance to properly talk... That's still conflict that needs to be addressed.
Maybe Sakura and Sasuke, shockingly, had a good marriage before Sakura got pregnant and Sasuke had to go off to... do whatever. Maybe Sakura is riding the coatails of better times that we haven't seen, but given how short this Gaiden is going to be and that you know, SasuSaku hasn't had a movie dedicated to their fantasy love life, we don't see any of that. All we've seen is the sad and problematic. That's why dear and darling is so contrived; it alludes to something the readers aren't privy to, and there just isn't enough time and focus to make that work when we have to contend with rip-off weirdoes.
The villains are just gross representations of villans we've seen before. We have a danzo-type that is an Uchiha, because we've never had an Uchiha villain before, and there seems to be some medical stuff going on like with Orochimaru and Kabuto. They're really uninspiring as conflict. This is why Sasuke has been gone so long? Or is it some weird OTHER thing we haven't seen yet but will explore... in the next piece we get from this franchise.
On a random note, I'm really hating Naruto's new default "..." expression; the one with the slight brow raised? It annoys me. He did it here, and he did it when Sarada was railing off against her dad.
Sarada is... I don't know. She reminds me of Sakura and that's why I feel like she's the only likeable thing in this whole mess, but at the same time the drama, the way she treats her mother, it's just sad. It's not even that she's the daughter of a pairing I can't respect; I don't really care that she's a SasuSaku baby. It's that there's just something off about her character and her entire introduction revolves around family drama in the same way Boruto seems defined by being disgruntled about his dad. The only reason why Sarada's "are you even my mom/are you two even married?!" outbursts aren't as ridiculous as Chocho's attempts at humour is because the manga is purposefully angling events to make it valid. It's to the point of disbelief that the scenes making us question the validity of their marriage are 'little coincedences' that had to be this way because of x-plot point.
