[Ep 141] Caps and Thoughts

[sarinthesky.livejournal.com]

Thoughts from Naruto Ep 141 or how I learnt to love loathe the filler arcs and Sakura too in possibly equal though not inconsiderable measures.

Summary:

Sakura: I suck...
Everyone: YES YOU DO





Ewwwww

Sakura's guide to being a ninja:
Stand and watch as Friend gets owned by Arashi-stein


Shout friend's name in helpful manner



As sharp razor pincer like objects come hurtling towards you, stay rooted to spot because, y'know, otherwise they might miss.

And in the process, mess up your friend's game plan. Oh, and get him a major stab wound in the process.



Sakura: I suck...
Everyone: Yes you do


Watch as friend gets owned #2


Shout friend's name in helpful manner #2


Friend gets owned #3


Do I even need to say anything...


Sakura: I suck...
Everyone: YES YOU DO

NEXT:
How to kill large mutant who laid the smack down on Naruto with 4 clones:


Run up to said mutant calling his name


PHEER the power of 1 kunai wielded by hysterical 12 year old girl.


HA! That old 'There's good in you still' line only works in Star Wars...


And apparently Naruto filler arcs as well...


OOoh spot the parallels "I just wanted power..."


PHEER the power of the single kunai wielded by single hysterical 12 year old girl against BIG MUTANT #2


To fight for what's right?
To save all the kittens?
To actually do something USEFUL?


That the way to save your friends is to put your head in the middle of some BIG SODDING PINCERS controlled by someone who wants to kill you.

Way to go Sakura.

How to be a great filler episode baddie #1


Don't kill the annoying pink haired bimbo when she sticks her head in your pincers. Instead remove said pincers and wave them in threatening manner whilst taunting ninja who you Already Have In A Death Grip.

(Oh and Sakura, don't attempt to do anything about large mutant monster who can apparently be injured so long as you scream Arashi Niichan in a suitably angsty manner. Just, yeah, watch.
Even when you get shown up by a filler character. You know, you could help disrupt his jutsu, or stab him, or perhaps even scream his name enough times that he gets fed up...)


o_0


Oh No! This filler arc is about to end and I need to die in a suitably heroic manner!


Ow...


Does this not look vaguely wrong to anyone?


Everyone: well....


Sakura: I suck!
Everyone: YES YOU DO


Now you have finished your character development wussy angsting I can finally come in without having done anything remotely useful or anything...


Everyone: WTF???? Didn't they swear to come here to get Sasuke back no matter what? Huh?
Translation:
Well, journey (tick), humorous encounters (tick), meet new and annoying filler characters (tick)had at least one of them act in noble and inspiring manner (tick) saved by annoying shouting love of another (tick), teh angst (tick) done a big climactic battle (tick) Well, that's the enough action for one filler arc, it's about time we got back to canon now, so long and thanks for all the SMEXY KABUTO.
Everyone: AAARGH! This filler arc was actually going somewhere! YOU SUCK!


Well, that about wraps everything up boys and girls


And we all learned an Important Lesson


See rant above.


Sakura: I suck
Everyone: YES YOU DO AAaaarghHHHH *incoherent*


Isn't that what they always said to the kid in class that always came bottom, to try and make him feel better, though really it was because he sucked and everyone knew it?


Because, yeah, all those times you cried like a sissy and shouted 'Naruto' as I got beaten the **** out of was really y'know, inspiring.


Err.. if Sakura-chan wasn't there, you wouldn't be incapacitated with a major stab wound....


Yay Shikamaru!


(I just wanted to include this image because of the truly comedy expression)


Phew, canon!
(OK at this point I admit to having a moment of if not Sakura tolerance, at least Sakura-isn't-a-complete-wiener-ness. Because y'know, everyone isn't good at everything, and it's a good lesson to learn, to find a way to use your strengths and not try and do things you can't, and all that, but This Is Why Canon Wins Mr Filler Arc Writer Man.)


Viewers of the show: YOUR time maybe...

END
Everyone: KAKASHI GAIDEN! KAKASHI GAIDEN! KAKASHI GAIDEN! KAKASHI GAIDEN!

Our Preview Says:

Everyone: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*incoherent*
*rips up seats and trashes the place*



Edit:
Note - Apologies, I love Naruto (And hey, it still isn't Tea Country...) And also for Sakura-bashing. I love her, I really do. I shall continue to in about half an hour after I finish going AAArGh about this episode...

Comments

[narutomonkey.livejournal.com]

omg, thanks for pointing that out. I can't watch Naruto episodes anywhere but I have to agree with you. Sakura really sucked through all those pictures. ;\

[darkwarrior.livejournal.com]

At least it did give a reason for her to start her Tsunade training. I think in the manga she just turned up after Naruto had failed to get Sasuke back and said "Yo, make me a medical ninja".

[cthulhu-cult.livejournal.com]

I think the whole point was to make Sakura feel bad about not being able to help her teammates, which added to her justification of going to Tsunade. It all fit in.

It was done better than the angst parade they tried to give Sasuke in Tea Country, anyway.

Everyone: KAKASHI GAIDEN! KAKASHI GAIDEN! KAKASHI GAIDEN! KAKASHI GAIDEN!

Pazuzu: NO! NO! NO! NO! ANIME CATCH UP MANGA VEWY VEWY BAD

[scottishfae.livejournal.com]

I'm at work, and not doing work, and I have to say that I have never had to suppress so much laughter as I just did ever before in my entire lifes existance. Seriously, I thought I was going to explode!

I love your comments, they are so true and yet so funny. Damn that Sakura.

Well thank you for the entertainment. It was greatly appreciated!

~fae

[basalt.livejournal.com]

haha keep posting summaries like this and i wont have to download all the fillers i missed XB

[reihikari.livejournal.com]

*twitch twitch* another.... filler arc.....??? *sigh* Thanks for the caps and hilarious captions.

[melfra.livejournal.com]

Because we all know characters who aren't super strong suck and self-esteem is for losers. I hate fillers as much as the next guy, but frankly, I would much rather they made a larger buffer between the anime and manga so they didn't even out. That would suck.

[damoyre.livejournal.com]

God.

Sakura sucks.

And so do filler episodes. Specially if they're not all about Kabuto and Orochimaru.

[scottishfae.livejournal.com]

I'd also like to point out that Sakura had a very good reason to be Tsunade's pupil anyway....b.c their team is identical to that of the Legendary Three anyway, so she would have to follow Tsundae's footsteps anyway...

...plus, who actually needs a reason...things happen all the time w.o reasons. No need to make us suffer w. hours of mind-numbing Sakura angst.

~fae

[turnip-girl.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I hate Sakura.

[turnip-girl.livejournal.com]

A filler arc entirely dedicated to Oro-chan and Kabuto would be teh greatest thing EVAR. *goes all starry eyed at the very thought* ^^

[turnip-girl.livejournal.com]

*huggles* Watch out for the rabid fans, they'll have ya. ;__;

[leaute.livejournal.com]

No one ate your heart out... We just, uh, disagreed with you... O.o

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd remember if I ate any heart today. I'm more of a liver sort of person.

[neviscar.livejournal.com]

Haha Sakura totally sucks. Atleast she can get better pretty easily from the low bottom...

[kotszok.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I don't mind the filler arcs, Sakura will be Sakura, but this was hilarious! Thanks for the laugh (and a recap of an ep I have still to watch, oops. lol)!

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

...bwa ha ha!!! Arashi niichan's heroic death! (Except he saved Sasame, so it wasn't heroic at all! It was in fact very Evil...)

Btw, to add to the Sakura bashing, which amuses me as though I think she's a whiney and deeply creepy stalker girl, I neither like or dislike her, I would just like to say (again, as we're all being contraversial!) I have no interest in the Gaiden whatsoever. ^^ In fact, skip it. Skip it and cut to the sex Akatsuki. :PPP

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

I have enjoyed this arc. But you know, there absolutely should have been more Oro and Kabuto; there can never be enough. ^^

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

More like characters who don't do anything, gets their friends in trouble and needs to be rescued. Hinata isn't super strong, nor does she have much self-esteem, but she does get bashed. There's a very obvious reason.

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, but she'd already recognized that she hadn't been able to do anything for Sasuke and was fed up at that point too, without having to deal with super pruning shears or mutant zombies or crazy-cest within the Fuuma clan (see above shot, which I agree does look very wrong). The extended 'Wah, look at me I'm wimpy and NOW completely illogical!' mess that was the filler arc didn't do anyone any favors.
...Well, except for those shots of Kabuto. That made me happy.

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

*doesn't, rather.

KAKASHI GAIDEN

[omnikaze.livejournal.com]

YES KAKASHI GAIDEN ARC KAKASHI GAIDEN ARC!
I hear yah whats this crappy fillers for!

[sarinthesky.livejournal.com]

*discussion already gone over a million times but yeah...*
As above, I love Sakura, I really do. And I think the message that even though you don't have Kyuubi!Power or UchihaTalent, you can be a great member of the team, so long as you play to your strengths is a really valuable one.

This does come through in the Sakura-We-All-Know-Is-There-Behind-The-Filler-Arc-Characterisation.

Because I think what people (ok, I) found frustrating was that, ok, we've been through this before, as mentioned in the last post, in the Chuunin exam arc. And she vows to be stronger etc etc. But here we just retread old ground. Hey, I'd be scared ***less faced with a two ton mega-mutant, so you know, I probably can't say much, but given we've seen Sakura act with far more guts than this from DAY 1 (viz the Zabuza arc when she protects the architect from the two Mist-nin), for 90% of the episode, she doesn't even *try* to do anything, she just watches as people get beat up, and it's Sasame of all people that actually helps.

But I do agree that the point that they are trying (though perhaps without much success) to make, about giving Sakura a real reason to be a Medic nin, is a good one; it just seems like people are arguing at different angles they (ok I) haven't made clear - SakuraIsActingLikeAWussInThisEpisode =/= SakuraSucks.

I just wish there could be more, Hey, actual showing of Look How Good Sakura Is At This, because that would rock.

(And yay LJ discussion for clearing out points like these and not just letting Sakura be bashed by people like me who are eyesporking after an episode like this...)

[jeeto.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who died a little inside when they saw there was going to be another filler arc instead of Kakashi Gaiden.

But in all honesty, how long is the Gaiden going to end up being in the anime? If they wanted to, they could cover it in only 1 episode. Or one extra long episode if they were feeling generous.

[sarinthesky.livejournal.com]

(see post below in response to melly_chan) but

Just to say yay LJ discussion for people having different points of view, and thankyou to everyone who stands up for Sakura, though I've had a thorough go at bashing SakuraIsSuckAWussInThisEpisode, that is different from I think the concept of Sakura's development is crap.
(probably gone through already a million times)
I just wish that some of the Naruto Episodes could show her being actually good at something...