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Originally Posted by Ero-Senn1n
It's all about the plot, their characters were already used to full extent while they were alive, so there was nothing interesting about them any more, ... people would complain that there's too much of boring side characters. Even as it is now people complained a lot about how slowly things are going.
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but this is exactly the problem. why introduce uninteresting characters in the first place? the answer is as you put it, that they served as plot devices, but characters who move the plot along can also be interesting... and should also be interesting. thats the point of reading a manga like naruto, to be interested in the characters. thats why so many people complained about the pace and story for the beginning of the war. because the bulk of the ET zombies in the first half of it are not interesting at all. they all push a plot ahead that in most cases wasn't even necessary. we already knew that characers like gaara and sai grew. we didnt need these boring tests to see that. they could have been interesting fights that got the point across just the same. or as i would prefer, to just have been left out all together