Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-12509038-20141124214040/@comment-8284722-20150121031647

@Jiton You have a point with Naruto's background. I would've liked to see people still showing great animosity towards Naruto up until he defeats Pain. My real problem with the backgrounds, though, is how they pretty much forced us everyone's fates. For example, Hinata (this is just the best example, not being prejudicial). Face it everyone; the ONLY reason anyone EVER figured NH SHOULD be canon was because Hinata has been stalking Naruto since they were 7. Backgrounds are great, but they shouldn't determine entire character development. That makes them less relatable and harder to get attached to them. Another thing about Hinata - WHEN THE #^@& DID STALKING SUDDENLY BECOME A GOOD FORM OF LOVE!?!?!?!?!?! I gotta disagree about you thing on fate though. The "fates" of the characters were all rather bad, such as Sasuke becoming like Madara or Naruto not becoming Hokage. But Naruto achieved (most of) these. And sometimes series need a sense of realism. Not every series can be Dragon Ball, ya know ("Mr. Shenron, my toe got a boo-boo, so I wanna wish for it to be healed!").