Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1018594-20150604121840/@comment-26275777-20150605230920

I know they're more bearable but that's largely because they stick very close to canon material (and really it was just one, the Kakashi ANBU arc, and IIRC Kishimoto had a hand in that). This particular filler/flashback is pure Studio Pierrot and the "new chuunin exams" is still too fresh in my memory for me to trust anything of theirs. Already they've introduced things that they're likely not going to resolve in any sensible manner: the grandmother, Rin knowing him so early, heck even Kakashi knowing AND PLAYING with him so early...also I don't know how he sucked at making clones if he was able to spit out even a little flame at age five, that takes a good amount of chakra control.

And in the manga there's a parallel between each generation but it's also obvious that they're different people. Kakashi isn't Sasuke and Obito isn't Naruto, even as kids. And Rin is definitely not Sakura. What's next, are they going to have a filler arc where young Jiraiya looks at young Orochimaru staring out at a lake? Fuck no, please.