*lurches in like a zombie*
Hello again.
I do realize it has been well over a year since my last post. If anyone has been watching me, I apologize for being so completely uninteresting.
On to business, I suppose:
The massive Naruto fanfic still exists. Its proper title is "Game Theory". It has been simmering and improving constantly since I first began, and is a much better story for all the fermenting in my brain.
I'm not sure if it will ever be actually written. I'm in the process of transcribing all the notes I made for it into my computer, so I can make a proper and full outline and detailed synopsis. I am happy to share the details of it with anyone who is interested. You can reach me on AIM, just email me for my handle.
I still love Naruto, but it's a bittersweet thing. I suppose it would be more accurate to say I love what it once was, or what promise it once held. I fell in love with the series in the very beginning, in the Land of the Waves. I was looking foward to see just how Naruto would change the world he inhabited, the world that he came to question standing at Haku and Zabuza's graves.
Unfortunately, we seem to have lost that kid. Now all I see is chapter after chapter of unispired artwork and page layouts, abysmal pacing, and incoherent plot. The very vitality of the series seems to have vanished with Asuma and Kakuzu's deaths. Instead of trying to change the 'ninja way', the kids are aspiring to be exactly like their flawed forebears, making the same mistakes and failing to see the underlying problems stained into the very grain of their society. Pain's words resonate, but he is not going to succeed; his points are unlikely to ever be addressed.
In short, I'm really, really disappointed with how the series has turned out. This is the first time I can remember losing interest in a series before it ended, and losing interest because it just stopped being interesting. I know lots of people still love the series as it is, and that's fine. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything.
So, basically, that's it.
...
Which sounds horribly depressing.
Oh well. Adieu, Naruto.
I do realize it has been well over a year since my last post. If anyone has been watching me, I apologize for being so completely uninteresting.
On to business, I suppose:
The massive Naruto fanfic still exists. Its proper title is "Game Theory". It has been simmering and improving constantly since I first began, and is a much better story for all the fermenting in my brain.
I'm not sure if it will ever be actually written. I'm in the process of transcribing all the notes I made for it into my computer, so I can make a proper and full outline and detailed synopsis. I am happy to share the details of it with anyone who is interested. You can reach me on AIM, just email me for my handle.
I still love Naruto, but it's a bittersweet thing. I suppose it would be more accurate to say I love what it once was, or what promise it once held. I fell in love with the series in the very beginning, in the Land of the Waves. I was looking foward to see just how Naruto would change the world he inhabited, the world that he came to question standing at Haku and Zabuza's graves.
Unfortunately, we seem to have lost that kid. Now all I see is chapter after chapter of unispired artwork and page layouts, abysmal pacing, and incoherent plot. The very vitality of the series seems to have vanished with Asuma and Kakuzu's deaths. Instead of trying to change the 'ninja way', the kids are aspiring to be exactly like their flawed forebears, making the same mistakes and failing to see the underlying problems stained into the very grain of their society. Pain's words resonate, but he is not going to succeed; his points are unlikely to ever be addressed.
In short, I'm really, really disappointed with how the series has turned out. This is the first time I can remember losing interest in a series before it ended, and losing interest because it just stopped being interesting. I know lots of people still love the series as it is, and that's fine. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything.
So, basically, that's it.
...
Which sounds horribly depressing.
Oh well. Adieu, Naruto.