Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20150507113846/@comment-3261234-20150508234216

I can't believe it. The 1vs1 battles were the one and only thing I was still looking forward to in this arc. I mean I'm glad the main story comes back earlier than expected, but if only the filler arc would've focused more on the underlying subplots (like the anti-Gaara faction, those guys seemed like there could've been done so much more) and less on tedious, stretched episodes, boring character-"developements" and , the aftertaste wouldn't be so sour. I now don't even know what was the point of this whole arc. Nothing came even remotely close to the canon chuunin exam. And it yet started pretty nicely. Oh well...

I know there are still some filler episodes to come, but I honestly don't expect much from them at this point. The arc went nowhere, and I doubt two or three more episodes will be able to fix it.