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Itachi Is More Special Than You. In Fact, The Whole Uchiha Clan Is More Special Than You
But first...
I found places to direct download all the naruto episodes, and I'm wondering which are worth watching. I'm planning on Temari rescuing Shikamaru, the episode with their conversation in the hospital (135), the Sasuke vs Naruto fight, and then in Shippuden, the Sakura versus puppeteer fight.
What else would you recommend?
I'd be interested in the episodes with Kiba/Hinata, Hinata in general, Anko (I was so disappointed she was only in the manga for two seconds and we never find out how she came to fight for Konoha), Sakura getting to be awesome, as always, Kakashi, and really, any episodes that is, either because it's funny, well animated, or has something my inner shipper would squeal over, worth the 20 minutes.
Now, on to something that is bugging me about the retcon. The morning after my Naruto bing, I woke up, and like, some poor hungover girl only now realizing who it was she brought home last night, went 'WTF, this makes even less sense than it did at 2 am!'
I found places to direct download all the naruto episodes, and I'm wondering which are worth watching. I'm planning on Temari rescuing Shikamaru, the episode with their conversation in the hospital (135), the Sasuke vs Naruto fight, and then in Shippuden, the Sakura versus puppeteer fight.
What else would you recommend?
I'd be interested in the episodes with Kiba/Hinata, Hinata in general, Anko (I was so disappointed she was only in the manga for two seconds and we never find out how she came to fight for Konoha), Sakura getting to be awesome, as always, Kakashi, and really, any episodes that is, either because it's funny, well animated, or has something my inner shipper would squeal over, worth the 20 minutes.
Now, on to something that is bugging me about the retcon. The morning after my Naruto bing, I woke up, and like, some poor hungover girl only now realizing who it was she brought home last night, went 'WTF, this makes even less sense than it did at 2 am!'
Okay, so, assuming that the Uchiha clan clan was treated as second class citizens (which I will, for simplicity) you have, in Itachi's youth:
Three OLD people who mistrust the Uchiha.
A sympathetic Hokage who will presumably hire a sympathetic successor.
A position in Konoha of REAL POWER. (Because no one is saying they weren't doing their job as military police.)
And you're telling me that the MAJORITY of the Uchiha clan decided that with those circumstances, ARMED RESISTANCE is the best choice?
Instead of oh, waiting for the opposition to die of old age?
I'm not going to go into Itachi being a lovely, loyal son with morals and then deciding everyone had to die, because it makes no sense. I truly think that if you kill your entire family, it doesn't matter who tells you to do so - you were just waiting for that excuse.
Three OLD people who mistrust the Uchiha.
A sympathetic Hokage who will presumably hire a sympathetic successor.
A position in Konoha of REAL POWER. (Because no one is saying they weren't doing their job as military police.)
And you're telling me that the MAJORITY of the Uchiha clan decided that with those circumstances, ARMED RESISTANCE is the best choice?
Instead of oh, waiting for the opposition to die of old age?
I'm not going to go into Itachi being a lovely, loyal son with morals and then deciding everyone had to die, because it makes no sense. I truly think that if you kill your entire family, it doesn't matter who tells you to do so - you were just waiting for that excuse.
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I'd never bought the fanon trope that Kakashi was drop-dead gorgeous (I always thought he was just ruggedly attractive with dimples) until I saw the ramen girl's reaction.
And then I was like, okay, drop dead gorgeous it is!
Plus, you had Sakura thinking on her feet, peeping on the boys (oh, god, that was funny), and my personal favorite, when she's dressed in those other ninja's gear. She looked like the love child of Kakashi and Sydney Bristow.
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I think of him more as an 8.5 - 9 than a full 10, though. I think part of the reason the "OMG YOU'RE SO HOT!" thing works in fanfics is that the appeal is the surprise. If they had already been looking at his face for five years they might label him a point or two less.
I am on board with the dimples. My Kakashi totally has dimples.
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Yeah, I totally think that whole not-seeing his face often or ever is a fact in the labeling of his hotness. There was actually one fanfic that I really liked that had, later on, Kakashi pulling down his mask to 'eat like a normal human being' and Sakura being... rather underwhelled, even though everyone else was staring at him and dropping things, because after so many years of imagining what could be under the mask....