Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4704473-20140807123612/@comment-3261234-20140807125138

Elveonora wrote: (...) Madara himself placed the puppet-master seal on Rin's heart and we were told Rin was aware of THE seal and that's why she removed it by getting her heart pierced. In the episode, she has no knowledge of Madara nor the seal and rather just commits suicide so the Sanbi doesn't take over. She could've realised it somewhere during the battle with the Kirigakure shinobi, but that's a weak excuse, I know. Anyway, the whole thing with the Puppet-Master Seal does not make any sense to begin with. I mean, if it's designed to prevent people from commiting suicide, how could Rin remove it...by commiting suicide? I wouldn't take it all too seriously, in the end, the filler was only made to extend the episode so they could put all the cool action scenes like the Shinobi Alliance Earth Wall Fail and Minato's arrival in one episode - which comes next week. :)