Diadochi

Here's the main number-one problem with Sasuke Uchiha: contrary to popular belief, his overall worth as a character to the entire story is extremely miniscule at best. Let me explain.

Firstly, he is very one-dimensional and lives for only one purpose - to kill Itachi (he even said so himself). Now, people can make the argument that other characters like Rock Lee and Neji are one-dimensional as well because they too only strived for one purpose: to prove that someone can be a splendid ninja with taijutsu alone and to rebel against the idea of subservience. But this is where they're wrong: even though Lee and Neji's goals can be viewed as being straight-forward, the very essence of their objectives coincided with one of the overall themes of the story itself (perseverance). Sasuke's one goal, vengeance, does not coincide with any of the values that the manga tried to push. Basically, not only was Sasuke one-dimensional, but his only goal didn't contribute anything to push the story forward.

Secondly, Sasuke is very unoriginal. He is supposed to represent an "arch-Naruto" had Naruto internalized his pain of loneliness and festered it into hatred. The problem with this lies in the fact that it's already been done with Haku first, then Gaara (the best "arch-Naruto"), and lastly Obito. The other reason why he's unoriginal stems from his newly formed desire to destroy Konoha after Itachi's death. Again, we've seen other characters strive for the same thing: Orochimaru and Pain (who actually succeeded, thus making Sasuke's mission void of any validity). Once Itachi died, Sasuke's journey was over. He had no purpose left within the story. If I was Kishi, I would've had Sasuke die together with Itachi. But by forcibly extending his worth past it's expiration date, not only does the story suffer (repetition of generic goals), but other characters suffer as well (the return of Sakura's infatuation).

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Sorry, but can you add me too? I wanna know what's going on with Chie.

A bit off topic, but this is just awesome: NS + Baccano! = Pure Epicness (plus it'll help lighten the mood)

 

i am pretty sure that direcotr was referring more to NaruSasu ending than the final couples... The reconciliation seal was been foreshadowed since the first battle at VOTE

That makes more sense.

Article about 699 is done as it planed 8 years ago (start of shippuuden I think) and generaly people agreed that it was about Naruto vs Sasuke. 700 chapter is choise of last 3 month, that stated too in that article.

Right.

really? do you remember the article?

It wasn't an article, I think he tweeted it though on his tweeter page and it got translated and linked in the 699 + 700 chapters thread.