Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25139119-20150901145048/@comment-28861328-20150902014322

Elveonora wrote: @Seel: our expectations were simply too high and Kishi didn't deliver, we fans put more thought into things like the lore, timeline etc. than he did.

That's true of almost any fictional series, Elve.

Take Star Wars for instance. Lucas only envisioned the first three movies and later expanded to six. As far as he was concerned, and he said this publicly, those six movies was all there was to Star Wars. The Expanded Universe, however, showed that fans took those six movies and made a huge universe out of them with more lore, timelines, and locations than Lucas could ever possibly imagine. And now Disney intends to take that even further.

You cannot fault an author for going as far as some fans might. The author is in it to tell their story, not the story the fans want. That's true of any literature.