Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-3261234-20150416133517/@comment-1458758-20150418015826

Elveonora wrote: Um, I disagree about Sasuke's personality being boring. Not everyone is crazy and stupid, some people are crazy and intelligent too ._. I actually loved it, even though being just a host body candidate for Orochimaru and in a way prisoner, he did whatever the heck he wanted there, like a true mastermind, patiently waiting and planning from the shadows.

Sasuke has always been this "calm and cool" type, unless it revolved around Itachi or Naruto ._. when he was a crazy emo.

Part 3/Epilogue Sasuke looks too "calm and cool" though, passive. Hopefully he gets some action too other than looking like some magician without tricks or Link from The Legend of Zelda. Yeah, the problem with this is that the quiet schemer type works in other types of manga. Naruto is not heavy on internal machination and thought process, tending to keep that to short bursts in fights. So having long periods of Sasuke wandering around completely silent would be as interesting as watching paint dry.

Not that he's any better after he kills Itachi, but at least he starts to emote more and not be so... Blank.

Edit: I mean Itachi and Orochimaru are also the quiet intellectuals, but they're much more interesting to watch for me because they have either people to play off, or just generally mmore interesting motivations to play with, Itachi had Kisame and this whole air of malice initially, and after the reveal of the truth, everything he did was given an air of complexity to examine. Orochimaru had Kabuto and has his whole ambition to be some Ninja God and his Creepy Michael Jackson vibe that makes waching him do things engaging.

Sasuke has no deeper motivation beyond revenge for 600+ chapters, is ambiguous for 50 odd, and then revenge again for the final fight and closure. It's 5o shades of crazy for a good part of it. But my initial point wasn't how boring it is to watch Sasuke, it's that Taka seems to serve no real purpose besides giving us something to do while Sasuke broods. With my earlier examples, Kisame was another member of Akatsuki, and his actions directly influenced events throughout Part 2. Kabuto had a huge impact in Part 1, and later again in Part 2 when he provided basically the entire interesting part of the enemy forces.

What have Suigetsu, Jugo and Karin done for the majority of their screen time? Argued with one another, get beaten up and then appear at the end for five seconds.