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Bristly day
Mar. 11th, 2010 11:13 amI am, unsurprisingly, extremely short-tempered lately.
This is mostly manifesting as swearing viciously at other drivers on the road and also my current client for fairly small lapses. But it is also possible that this is why I have finally decided that, yes, Kishimoto did change his mind halfway through and that Itachi being a Sekrit Gud Guy is a very poorly done retcon.
Particular indications: the fact that, even well into the changover between the two series halves, Itachi is still telling Sasuke to live on hate and make it his cause. You can attempt to explain this as Itachi's effort to turn Sasuke away from him and toward the village, but encouraging revenge in particular just does not fit with Itachi being sane albeit anguished and rational enough to lay a false trail. That's a fantastically self-centered statement and fits perfectly with Itachi being genuinely psycho.
But, of course, a personal enemy like that didn't fit with the change over to the Cosmic Issues plotline, so while Kishimoto was busy totally overturning the momentum of the first half and making Naruto into the One True Hero and Sasuke into a nutcase in service of this, he also decided to tie up the dangling villain by making him a secretly angsty demi-hero. This without any of the actual rationalization or explanation required to carry it off.
Doubleplus fail, Kishimoto.
This is mostly manifesting as swearing viciously at other drivers on the road and also my current client for fairly small lapses. But it is also possible that this is why I have finally decided that, yes, Kishimoto did change his mind halfway through and that Itachi being a Sekrit Gud Guy is a very poorly done retcon.
Particular indications: the fact that, even well into the changover between the two series halves, Itachi is still telling Sasuke to live on hate and make it his cause. You can attempt to explain this as Itachi's effort to turn Sasuke away from him and toward the village, but encouraging revenge in particular just does not fit with Itachi being sane albeit anguished and rational enough to lay a false trail. That's a fantastically self-centered statement and fits perfectly with Itachi being genuinely psycho.
But, of course, a personal enemy like that didn't fit with the change over to the Cosmic Issues plotline, so while Kishimoto was busy totally overturning the momentum of the first half and making Naruto into the One True Hero and Sasuke into a nutcase in service of this, he also decided to tie up the dangling villain by making him a secretly angsty demi-hero. This without any of the actual rationalization or explanation required to carry it off.
Doubleplus fail, Kishimoto.
