Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180124105359/@comment-31269053-20180129002223

BlazeRelease wrote: @Skypiercer. I don't know why you think Boruto is like Gaara, Obito or even Nagato. He whines, because the Dad who he used to hang around. doesn't have time for him anymore. That's a very normal thing to be whining about in his age. Especially since he didn't have anyone to teach him about the values of sacrifice and responsibility a Shinobi holds.

But it's not like he is a whiny boy now. By the end of the Boruto movie, he changed his perception of Naruto. And all it took for him to change was two evil immortal alien race to bring havoc to his village and kidnap his father to another dimension, where he had to reach and somehow save the day while the situation became dire. Lol.

But to be honest, Sasuke's explaination about how Naruto was and him almost losing his father made him mature from that whiny kid, he used to be. And Boruto's gonna mature more and more by each arc(canon arcs), just like Naruto did. Looking at your reply, I am more than certain that you didn't read or understand anything that I said. Let me try to explain it to the point that even simple minded people can understand.

First off, I didn't say that Boruto is like Gaara, Obito, and Nagato. I only used them as examples to explain the logic behind Boruto's actions. And the point I was trying to make is that just because you understand why a character does something, it doesn't mean it's okay for them to do it. To dumb it down, I'm saying that just because it is normal for Boruto to whine and complain, it doesn't make his whining and complaining somehow good or alright. We understand why he does it which makes it normal for us but that doesn't excuse the fact that what he's doing is bad.

Which is why I compared Boruto to Naruto. If I were to put things into your perspective, then in would be normal for Naruto to turn evil. Any person in the same situation as Naruto would have turned evil. But Naruto didn't choose the course of action that a normal person would. He choose not to fall and not to give up. He choose to rise above his problem. He choose to do more than what a person would normally do which makes him larger than life. And that's what drew people to Naruto in the first place.

Long story short, I wanted Boruto's character to take the bases of Naruto's character. I didn't want Boruto to be one of those characters where we sympathize with and think that their actions are normal. I want him to be more than normal. Rather than sympathizing and empathizing, I want him to be inspirational. More than that, I want him to be even more inspirational than Naruto. That's what I want.

But I'm not ignorant. I understand that there are people out there who prefer a character that they can sympathize with rather than a character that they can be inspired by. To which I say that if you like those characters, kudos for you because you're gonna like Boruto. But or people like me. People who're not looking for another entitled character that does what anyone else would do, you're gonna be disappointed in Boruto. Especially when it's a squeal to Naruto who is based upon a character that is larger than life.