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synecdochic's 'writing meta' posts, and it's made me really picky about the fic i read- although part of my problem is most definitely the fact that i'm browsing ffn trying to find good fic. which is just pointless. but anyway- it got me to start thinking about actual canon show and all- i've been on a naruto kick the past week or so- and basically i've decided that half the problems with naruto fic are caused by the fact that naruto canon, as a cohesive story, sucks. i mean, it's just not well-written.
take itachi, for example. he killed his entire clan, men, women, and children, nin and civilian alike, infants to elderly. why? canon says it was because he wanted to "test his abilities" or some crap like that. but he spared sasuke (his then-7-year-old younger brother, fyi)- supposedly so that sasuke could then use his hate to "become strong" and hunt down itachi for vengeance or whatever. itachi actually provokes sasuke into this- he doesn't just leave sasuke to assume that it was itachi who killed their clan, he actively imposes a vision of the slaughter (at his hands) into sasuke's mind using the sharingan. this leaves no doubt in sasuke's mind that itachi did the deed.
why? there is no believable reason for this. if itachi actually did kill the entire clan and for his professed evil reason- why did he kill even the infants and civilians, who couldn't have posed any sort of danger to him? as a test of his will and supreme evilness? i don't think so. same question if you believe that itachi didn't do it just to "prove himself"- why would he do it, and what reason could possibly require the deaths of even the infants of the clan, but excuse both himself and his little brother? and, if you choose to believe that itachi didn't kill his clan, and is on some secret vengeance quest to kill whoever did do it- why the mystery? why lie to sasuke? why not go directly to the hokage with whatever information he had? it just doesn't make sense.
and here's another situation: naruto. one of his defining character traits is his goal of becoming hokage so that the villagers of konohagakure won't be able to ignore him or hate him and will have to acknowledge him. but, as a student in the academy, he obviously paid zero attention to these classes which are designed to teach him how to become a shinobi. that is a huge disconnect between what the writers say his character is like and what he actually does as a character. and then, suddenly, once he's out of academy, he's able and determined to learn everything!
i'm not even going to touch on the overpowered state of the main character cast, the obviously-skewed battles, and the sketchy politics and legal system of the story as a whole, let alone the infrastructure of their culture (which is dichotomous) or their social structure and ethnic superstructure (which are unbalanced and completely disconnected).
can they get kubo tite to rewrite the show? please?
synecdochic's 'writing meta' posts, and it's made me really picky about the fic i read- although part of my problem is most definitely the fact that i'm browsing ffn trying to find good fic. which is just pointless. but anyway- it got me to start thinking about actual canon show and all- i've been on a naruto kick the past week or so- and basically i've decided that half the problems with naruto fic are caused by the fact that naruto canon, as a cohesive story, sucks. i mean, it's just not well-written.take itachi, for example. he killed his entire clan, men, women, and children, nin and civilian alike, infants to elderly. why? canon says it was because he wanted to "test his abilities" or some crap like that. but he spared sasuke (his then-7-year-old younger brother, fyi)- supposedly so that sasuke could then use his hate to "become strong" and hunt down itachi for vengeance or whatever. itachi actually provokes sasuke into this- he doesn't just leave sasuke to assume that it was itachi who killed their clan, he actively imposes a vision of the slaughter (at his hands) into sasuke's mind using the sharingan. this leaves no doubt in sasuke's mind that itachi did the deed.
why? there is no believable reason for this. if itachi actually did kill the entire clan and for his professed evil reason- why did he kill even the infants and civilians, who couldn't have posed any sort of danger to him? as a test of his will and supreme evilness? i don't think so. same question if you believe that itachi didn't do it just to "prove himself"- why would he do it, and what reason could possibly require the deaths of even the infants of the clan, but excuse both himself and his little brother? and, if you choose to believe that itachi didn't kill his clan, and is on some secret vengeance quest to kill whoever did do it- why the mystery? why lie to sasuke? why not go directly to the hokage with whatever information he had? it just doesn't make sense.
and here's another situation: naruto. one of his defining character traits is his goal of becoming hokage so that the villagers of konohagakure won't be able to ignore him or hate him and will have to acknowledge him. but, as a student in the academy, he obviously paid zero attention to these classes which are designed to teach him how to become a shinobi. that is a huge disconnect between what the writers say his character is like and what he actually does as a character. and then, suddenly, once he's out of academy, he's able and determined to learn everything!
i'm not even going to touch on the overpowered state of the main character cast, the obviously-skewed battles, and the sketchy politics and legal system of the story as a whole, let alone the infrastructure of their culture (which is dichotomous) or their social structure and ethnic superstructure (which are unbalanced and completely disconnected).
can they get kubo tite to rewrite the show? please?
