Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20170816102343/@comment-734582-20170817132702

Lorenzo.r.2nd wrote: only liked it cuz of the Naruto moments. though, they did cut him off from using sm, like in the manga. but, yet again, we get to see the next gen wank. sarada awakens one of the most op and hax kkg in the show, cuz she got a little happy from meeting someone she doesn't even how he looks. oh that goddamn chocho again. how can she use something like partial expansion at the age of 8/9, when choji didn't even know how to do it in the chunnin exams at the age of 12+?... im starting to quit this man.. I wanna see some action. and some good action. and it better not have plot, bs, cis, pis, plotarmor, and wank... You forget that the Konoha 12 weren't exactly the most powerful or unique group of people. Legendary characters like Minato and itachi absolutely shit on everything previous and current generation have done by several orders of Magnitude.

Choji was easily scared and extremely lazy, but we saw that Chouchou was repeatedly mentioned to be training. Same goes for Shikamaru, who preferred looking at clouds. Naruto learned extremely slowly unless it was practically made for him. While the achievements of the later K12 are much more impressive, in their Genin days they were nothing special.

Compare the current generation with someone like Haku, who was heavily trained from an early age, and it seems to me that it's much closer to the current generation level.

Lastly, It's clear that Sarada cares far more about her dad than she shows, she acted all cool and all but her Sharingan betrays that she did in fact was heavily torn over it (Which i guess shows the true mark of a Shinobi). Unlike Boruto who voices his thoughts freely, Sarada keeps it to herself and bottles it up. After all, the worst Boruto did in response to his anger was cheat, whereas Sarada straight up threatened to leave the village.