Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-27089028-20170521162518

It's similar to the gripes I have about time travel stories i.e. the fate and destiny BS complicates a good story, limits it. I prefer time travel stories that use multiverse theory or at least feel like the universe isn't running off a script.

Using that in the context of Naruto, the story suffered because Kishimoto put limits not on characters (no that would have been easier to fix) but on the very lore of Narutoverse. Suddenly Chakra isn't this mystical life force but now somehow it's alien stuff from an alien tree...this is Midi Chlorians all over again.