What can I say...?
I can say that Naruto is more of a touchy-feely subject then it really needs to be, no thanks to some bandwagon jumpers who haven't even read Naruto because they won't "Touch it with a ten-foot-barge-pole".
But other than that, I think it's a good series. Not a great, omg-wtf-somebody-pinch-me-the-new-episode-chapter-is-out! series, but it's definitely not as horrendous as some people make it out to be. Some concepts bother me, (The orange needs to go. <_< Orange ninja's are not cool, they are colorblind and fashionably impaired.) but others are actually really cool- maybe not original, but cool.
But thanks to this crazy propoganda on the series, most people either HATE IT'S GUTS or LOVE IT LIKE THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHER. Frankly, the people who can sit in the middle have my respect, because that's exactly the way I see this series. It was definitely very good in the beginning, with the Haku and Zabuza arc, and such. When people talk about the series, "Dragging things on", those people have obviously never watched the atrocity that is Dragon Ball Z. :| But that's a different subject that I'll leave for a different thread.
What I mean is that, people whine and gripe about things that you can find in plenty of other anime, and I think that's just... ugh. Why is Naruto the only one who's deemed Guilty? Objection!
Carrying on.
To me, it's just something to give a slow kick off to my weekly Shounen Jump reads. It's not amazing, it's not horrendous, but it's enjoyable enough to keep up with; maybe skip a few arcs here and there, but hey.