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Episode Review: Naruto Shippuden

That was my understanding as well. If he gave him the rank now, there's no way Naruto would be able to sit still for 2 years of studying without that carrot dangling in front of him.

Yeah, Sasuke got off the hook a little too easily. I think if he'd had something a bit more concrete to atone with than "I'm off to find myself, seeya," it would have gone down better. Go find yourself while you're doing community service or something. At least make him put up with Sakura chaperoning him. The way it was handled he might as well have just graduated from college and got a NinjaRail Pass.

But for just a second I'll ignore the fact that he told them NUMEROUS times to leave him alone. Sasuke was a missing nin. By shinobi he was supposed to be killed.

Is this really lapsing into filler again so quickly?

I think I'm done with it if so.

It hit some of the highest emotional highs of any series I've ever watched - Jiraiya's passing and the Pain arc(s) in particular evoked a pretty damned raw level of feeling from me - but I think it lost its way so often that I regularly forgot what the show was trying to be about. The finale seemed an acceptable attempt to recoup some of that, but nevertheless hurried so that it could all go away and make room for the filler.

I guess I earnestly look forward to watching a reboot of this series without its filler in a decade or two. The current one leaves me deeply ambivalent - split very evenly between hating and loving it.

Yeah, Sasuke got off the hook a little too easily. I think if he'd had something a bit more concrete to atone with than "I'm off to find myself, seeya," it would have gone down better. Go find yourself while you're doing community service or something. At least make him put up with Sakura chaperoning him. The way it was handled he might as well have just graduated from college and got a NinjaRail Pass.

I agree, Sasuke definitely got off too damn easy; I've always felt that way. Which was why Naruto and Sakura in early Shippuden irked me to no ends. Their thinking was too juvenile for Ninjas their age. They thought pretty words was all it was going to take to bring him home, even though he wasn't kidnapped and left on his own accord. But for just a second I'll ignore the fact that he told them NUMEROUS times to leave him alone. Sasuke was a missing nin. By shinobi law he was supposed to be killed. Even more so after he attacked the Five Kage Summit. Their classmates came to the conclusion that Sasuke had to be dealt with. Sakura eventually came to this realization as well. But Naruto played captain save a h*e to the very end. But that's just the way he is, it can't be helped. But more than anything, I'm eager to find out how Sakura finally managed to wear Sasuke down lol.

SailorNaruto wrote:

Yeah, Sasuke got off the hook a little too easily. I think if he'd had something a bit more concrete to atone with than "I'm off to find myself, seeya," it would have gone down better. Go find yourself while you're doing community service or something. At least make him put up with Sakura chaperoning him. The way it was handled he might as well have just graduated from college and got a NinjaRail Pass. I agree, Sasuke definitely got off too damn easy; I've always felt that way. Which was why Naruto and Sakura in early Shippuden irked me to no ends. Their thinking was too juvenile for Ninjas their age. They thought pretty words was all it was going to take to bring him home, even though he wasn't kidnapped and left on his own accord. But for just a second I'll ignore the fact that he told them NUMEROUS times to leave him alone. Sasuke was a missing nin. By shinobi law he was supposed to be killed. Even more so after he attacked the Five Kage Summit. Their classmates came to the conclusion that Sasuke had to be dealt with. Sakura eventually came to this realization as well. But Naruto played captain save a h*e to the very end. But that's just the way he is, it can't be helped. But more than anything, I'm eager to find out how Sakura finally managed to wear Sasuke down lol.

Watch a better quality series if you're looking for consequences to be dealt with better.

SailorNaruto wrote:

But for just a second I'll ignore the fact that he told them NUMEROUS times to leave him alone. Sasuke was a missing nin. By shinobi he was supposed to be killed.

I might be misremembering things but I don't remember it ever being stated that missing-nin were given TOS designations. In fact it was Danzo himself who put out kill orders on Sasuke.

Normally in a series that revolves around ninja or shinobi, if you leave the village on your own accords, your deemed a rogue or missing nin and your automatically scheduled to be killed. I mean the Hidden Mist has an entire division for executing rogue ninjas.