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timepiececlock) wrote2004-05-21 10:26 pm
timepiececlock) wrote2004-05-21 10:26 pm
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Naruto # 84 - a minute to minute reaction
04:00 - ohmydear, chibi!Sasuke is adorable. And, it seems, the eternal Sasuke question has been answered: Yes, he's always had stupid hair.
05:45 - and he's sweet! a polite little child that actually smiles. how tragic.
07:08 - poor baby. this is going to be bad.
08:06 - Nooooo! ::hugs chibi!Sasuke and covers his eyes::
08:30 - He took off his shoes. He really *must* be in shock.
09:13 - Move... Move... No, wait, don't move! Don't open the door! You'll never be happy again if you open the door!
12:02 - Itachi needs to die. Evil child-torturing SOB needs to die.
14:52 - "Run. Run and cling to life." Oh Sasuke. ::sad sigh::
18:11 - Eww... is his skin supposed to peel like that?
19:24 - Oh SHIT! He did not just do that. HE DID NOT JUST DO THAT!
21:00 - Jeraiya! About time you showed up you irresponsible guardian. But good show old man.
The image of chibi!Sasuke running away and screaming "Don't kill me" was painful to watch. He's only eight years old, just a child.
That SOB needs to die. Go kill him Sasuke. We're right behind you.
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donna_c_punk, who is downloading episode 1 at this moment, you're in for a great ride, girl.Edited to add: I bet breaking his wrist ::cringes again at thought:: is karma retribution for Sasuke torturing the Sound nin's arms in the chuunin exams.
And have I mentioned lately that I love the perspectives and visual direction used on the fights in this show? Better than the anime norm.
I'm still pretty surprised that Itachi showed Sasuke how he murdered the family. It wasn't enough that the little boy tripped over the bodies comming home and saw the brother he idolizes standing over the corpses of his parents... no, Itachi had to make him live it personally. No wonder Sasuke's so fucked up.
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Whew. That was a mouthful.
Ep 84 is great neh? Heehee. Chibi Sasuke is so adorable, a pity there's nothing to be done about that god awful hairstyle that makes Sakura look so...plain.
Karma retribution? Heehee. It is, it is! Because in one way or another Sasuke is forming into another Itachi. I bet you if someone points that out he'll revised his revenge plots.
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I don't know.
On the one hand, I think Sasuke is shaping up to be the Big Villain of the series, or at least the person who presents the most dramatic battle Naruto has in the future. I've thought so ever since he got the curse mark in the second Chuunin exam-- I wrote about it in one of my episode reviews in my LJ memores. If this is the case then eventually there will be nothing that will turn Sasuke away from acquiring power, for the supposed purpose of killing his brother no matter who it hurts in the process.
On the other hand, Sasuke has consistantly surpised me by turning out to be not as dark as I expected... the way Naruto's courage versus his selfishness shamed him in the second Chuunin Exam, the way he trusted in and thereby acknowledging Naruto's strength during the fight with Gaara, and the way he came running to save Naruto last episode. [Though he did want to fight Itachi, it seemed pretty clear that Sasuke's motivation in running after them was fear for Naruto's life... though Sasuke wants to kill Itachi (and now in the heat of the moment has convinced himself that he has a chance), he's still driven by fear of him more than anything.]
Then again, even now Sasuke's still a boy. He still reacts like a 12 year old kid, not like an adult. The older Sasuke gets, the more susceptible to his own darkness he'll become.
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It's obvious after watching Naruto battle Gaara that he's having superiority complex and what doesn't help is that he is also emotionally and mentally unstable. Those flashbacks show that he admired his brother alot (looked up to him and wanted to be like him) and because of Itachi betraying him in the worse form possible, it hurt him in more ways than one, losing everything in one consecutive hit. (At least, that's what it appears to be)
He seemed to be doing fine until Naruto's display of power and Itachi returning and Itachi forking his interest on Naruto instead of him, which is a pretty big blow to his - I supposed - ego.
Ah. Oh well.
Itachi is pretty cruel, but there must be an emphasized point to why he would do that to a 9 yr old kid. The whole Uchiha massacre seems suspicious to me, too many holes to work with and not enough answer.
Damn Kishimoto, when will he provide us some answers?!!
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Um... yeah? ::confused::
He seemed to be doing fine until Naruto's display of power and Itachi returning and Itachi forking his interest on Naruto instead of him, which is a pretty big blow to his - I supposed - ego.
Yep. Definitely an ego blow. One of the reasons I think Sasuke is not that likely to "revise his plans" when its pointed out to him that he's getting darker is that the older he gets the less I think he'll care about being more and more unstable or closer to becoming the devil.
Having Naruto present is a contradiction: in some ways Naruto is healing Sasuke, by teaching him about friendship, loyalty, duty, and integrity. Even Orochimaru noticed this. In other ways Naruto is a constant reminder to Sasuke of his own weakness as a fighter, which feeds his emotional downward spiral and heightens Sasuke's urgency to be strong enough to carry out his vengeance.
Again, I do agree that it is an ego blow that Itachi isn't even coming back for him, since Sasuke spends so much time thinking about Itachi. But I do firmly believe that Sasuke's primary motivation in episode 82 WAS fear for Naruto's life... when he's running and searching, he thinks that Naruto will be killed because he knows Naruto isn't strong enough. In this moment, Naruto becomes Sasuke's lost family. And Sasuke is driven to warn Naruto because he's faced with the chance of losing yet another person he cares about to Itachi.
And this episode's flashbacks only clarifies this element of fear-- Sasuke is always going to be running, away form Tiachi or to him, and even when he faces an opportunity to confront Itachi, as he does now, he's still so heavily controlled by the fear of the little 8 year old boy. Not the kind of fear that keeps him from fighting (he's too angry for that and displays no hesitation in attacking), but the kind of fear that makes him always hyper-aware of the danger Itachi presents to the people Sasuke is tied to.
I'm actually surpised in a way by this angle... I thought Sasuke's back story was going to be all about anger. But because he was so young it's equal parts anger and fear, and to me that is even more fascinating.
Itachi is pretty cruel, but there must be an emphasized point to why he would do that to a 9 yr old kid. The whole Uchiha massacre seems suspicious to me, too many holes to work with and not enough answer.
I believe that Itachi would just kill them all to see if he could-- from what we've seen he's a total sociopath. I can believe there's not anything more to it than that.
What I am most interested in is why he let Sasuke live. I don't believe it's that he's too apathetic to bother killing Sasuke... he went to the trouble to show Sasuke everything he did, and obviously planned the timing so that Sasuke would arrive after he'd killed everyone else. If he's this smart and planned it so meticulously (this doesn't seem like it was done on a whim) then he must have planned a reason to keep Sasuke alive. It's not love and it's not pity. I also don't at all think it's some twisted obligation to keep his clan alive.
It could be curiousity, to see what Sasuke could become, given enough motivation. It could be he wants to manipulate Sasuke later for some other purpose.
84 is a good one.
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Did you read chapter 216 yet? If so, kicked ass, did it not, even though those bastards lied to us last week about things being final. If not, what are you waiting for?
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Should I feel insulted?
Did you read chapter 216 yet?
::holds head and screams::: ARGh! I welcome you to my journal with open arms but please don't talk about the manga here! Talk to me about events that have occured in the anime so far, or in the manga up to that point!
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I deleted yours and hers out of fear for my own self skimming it, not out of any badness. I would have screened except that then *I'd* be the only one to see it. In fact, you can still reply to the comments via where it appears in your email.
When you make any kind of comment it gets sent to both the person you commented to, and the person who owns the journal. :)
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You'll have to face the facts: I am not a purist nor will I ever be. I regularly choose anime over manga, though I love them both. If am exposed to the anime first, I will watch that first. If I am exposed to the manga first, I'll read that first (like Inu Yasha.) Frequently, I'll do both at the same time.
I'll tell you what. If they ever screw something up so horribly and so dramatically that it's unbearable for you to watch the anime any more out of disgust at the frightening change, you can tell me that such a thing has occured (but not the nature of it), and I will read the manga up to and including that point and decide for myself whether to read on or not depending on how far the anime has strayed in major lot points. Ok?
And Naruto having cereal in the morning instead of ramen one day does not count as major.
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