A couple of weeks ago i watched a video called Naruto: A series of ups and downs, and had me thinking about early naruto, its arcs and slow shift from Ninjas doing missions to Super warriors in a grand-scale war.
And this has probably been talked to death here, but what kind of missions would you guys have wanted to see perform by team 7 before the chuunin exams? I feel the second arc came too soon (for reasons we all know).
Would it have been a good idea to make the first movie a canon mission arc that tells us a bit more about Kakashi's past and develops Naruto and Sasuke's relationship as friends?
(I know naruto uses the rasengan there, but you can always end the fight in some other way or have him learn some new jutsu from kakashi)
Maybe two comedic episodes and then a mission that would have taken place in, for example, the cloud village or some place you guys feel was "under used"?
Since the original manga ended, i feel like there was so much unused potential