Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20160908111943/@comment-734582-20160920110118

GreatestSin wrote: that is because the superminds like kishi and his studio constantly changed the SPSMs look, maybe for a cooler design or they simply changed it for lulz :( the cloak changes with Naruto's attire. And The Last was in production before SPSM was revealed.

Kalikma wrote: If that´s the case how is that going to work if he doesn´t let the kage and all the other persons free? I mean the whole world is actually already united because of the fourth great ninja war? They all joined forces already, dont they? The world is united under a common threat. Once that threat is gone, what stops people from reverting to the old ways? What Sasuke intends to do is punish those that made this world (Obito and Madara are already dead and the Biju and the Kage are all that remain) and then be the next threat to keep them united. So unlike Kaguya who ruled with force, Sasuke intends to fulfill the role of nuclear deterrent in Pain's worldview, but in Itachi's way -from the shadows. IE periodically appear and punish evil people to remind him of his existence, but generally letting people live their own way.

It's not an evil plan -it's not like the Biju and Kage have clean hands- and it would almost certainly work. What it fails to address is that what keeps people from reverting is a change in mentality; previously people would retaliate for a deed, and retaliate for that retaliation etc etc etc. Naruto made it clear however that everyone suffers, and that you need to start forgiving people for what they've done to prevent such a cycle. By forgiving Pain, by forgiving Konoha, he's broken the cycle in one place. By breaking the cycle in one place you can break it in others, and so post-SW4 people realize that retaliation creates only more retaliation, and to prevent it people need to talk.

That's naruto's true answer to Pain: there's no one universal solution, but rather it requires that people are willing to work for peace and understanding, and there's no better way than to start with yourself. Pain's problem -that he realized- is that by assuming there was no better answer than his plan, it was the best solution. But the fallacy was that the kind of solution he sought -imposed through power- was the entirely wrong kind.