Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20160128123758/@comment-5936871-20160129032711

The episode was exceedingly poor. It was just a rushed and uncreative remake of Naruto and Sasuke's first fight with Itachi randomly thrown in there to just die in such a lame and dumb way and then turn into a spirit and fade away. The Jiraiya's Handbook Filler Arc has been pretty decent imo and interesting but this episode and the previous have just been really poor imho. It also didn't make much sense, Naruto breaking out of Yamato's control so easily. Naruto using Sage Mode to combat a CMLVL1 Sasuke? He should have owned him. Rasenshuriken vs. Kirin? What happened? They just disappeared and then Sasuke impales Naruto? Not to mention Naruto used it without Sage Mode. Naruto using what was it two or three tails against CMLVL2 Sasuke and not easily overpowering him? Neji's Byakugan not seeing through a simple ink clone? Like there was so much rushed in this episode and a lot of it just looked poor, didn't make sense, and felt really lackluster.