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NeedleJizo wrote: Pour a 40 for the homie Obito. I'm glad that we spend most of the episode flashing back to his life. He deserved it. I get what they tried to aim at, but they spend the first half flashing back on his many mistakes. After that, words like "Obito's the coolest guy because he wanted to become hokage" and "you tried" sound extremely hollow.

Obito's right. He's trash. A special place in hell is reserved for all the pain and hate he caused. It would be a lot more understandable if there was more focus on the fact that he had a curse seal on him and half a zetsu (and thus raising the legitimate question of how much he was really himself and in control). But that is never done, at least not in any clear and explicit way.

So yea, it feels extremely forced that naruto cries over a guy who went to his limit to break and kill him, and the message the episode sends about Obito trying to be good is extremely weak in the face of the first half explicitly showing him to be a remorseless murder asshole.