It's not technically "bad" per see, but when it's done wrong it's the mark of an amateur and bad author
When an author doesn't know how to self insert properly --- ( getting themes from his own life, inserting them on their characters and making it believable within their world without changing or unadressing things for such theme's or character's sake)--- he will end up with a story like Naruto's one, where for example:
--Sasuke's ( kind of an author self insert) crimes went unpunished and were not addressed for whatever reason
--The author tries to find any kind of excuse to pass on his own experiences of handling work and family into the story when it doesn't make any sense in the context the story gives (or gave us). A clear example for this is the relation between Sasuke and Salad, where Sasuke simply spent 12 years away without even seeing his daughter because of some kind of "work" that in the end amounted to nothing or the relation between Naruto and Bolt, where we see a hokage being too busy to spend time with his family or his son...however this makes no sense because the story itself gave us the fact that the other kages managed to found time for their loved ones making the whole thing with Naruto and Bolt awfully forced
In conclusion Kishimoto is trying to mirror his experiences of handling work and family with Sasuke and Naruto relations with their families, however all of this makes no sense within the story, he is just doing or for the sake of self inserting or because he simply is a bad author and creator and therefore didn't had any new ideas
Edited by Nar123, 07 June 2015 - 01:20 AM.