Itachi believes in Naruto. Or seems to. Which is really interesting to me. Itachi obviously liked Naruto's answer to him about protecting both Konoha AND Sasuke, and admired him for it. Itachi put his trust in Naruto to save his brother.
Itachi's behavior to Naruto in that scene has a new quality given what we've learned (or at least, learned in as much that we don't know how much of what Madara said was truth), but that doesn't substantially affect my opinion of Sasuke's storyline. Naruto's been destined to save Sasuke from himself since the manga started, whether from Orochimaru or Itachi or Akatsuki. I just find it disappointing as a story tactic to prolong Sasuke's villainhood like this, past what I see as logical within the story given. And the weird thing is-- I don't even like Sasuke much as a character. I don't think he should be particularly good or be happy now that Itachi's dead. I just don't think the direction the mangaka took for him makes sense either. It's lame, and it's bad writing.
And I don't think Sasuke wants to take out the whole village.
In the conversation with the Akatsuki, going on the translation I read, he said he'd only thought as far as taking out the leaders. Which is different than saying he only wanted to take out the leaders.
"The complete and utter destruction of leaf!" was what the scans I read quoted him saying his new goal was. That's pretty straightforward.
I'd rather think "he doesn't want to" because taking out all of Konoha is out of character for Sasuke as we've seen him all the way through 400 chapters. I'd like to think he's only interested in assassinating the top people. But since I have to look at the text as canon "characterization" for Sasuke, it appears Sasuke wants the complete and utter destruction of the village.
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Itachi's behavior to Naruto in that scene has a new quality given what we've learned (or at least, learned in as much that we don't know how much of what Madara said was truth), but that doesn't substantially affect my opinion of Sasuke's storyline. Naruto's been destined to save Sasuke from himself since the manga started, whether from Orochimaru or Itachi or Akatsuki. I just find it disappointing as a story tactic to prolong Sasuke's villainhood like this, past what I see as logical within the story given. And the weird thing is-- I don't even like Sasuke much as a character. I don't think he should be particularly good or be happy now that Itachi's dead. I just don't think the direction the mangaka took for him makes sense either. It's lame, and it's bad writing.
And I don't think Sasuke wants to take out the whole village.
In the conversation with the Akatsuki, going on the translation I read, he said he'd only thought as far as taking out the leaders. Which is different than saying he only wanted to take out the leaders.
"The complete and utter destruction of leaf!" was what the scans I read quoted him saying his new goal was. That's pretty straightforward.
I'd rather think "he doesn't want to" because taking out all of Konoha is out of character for Sasuke as we've seen him all the way through 400 chapters. I'd like to think he's only interested in assassinating the top people. But since I have to look at the text as canon "characterization" for Sasuke, it appears Sasuke wants the complete and utter destruction of the village.