Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-3261234-20150305115751/@comment-26169147-20150311162752

FunbucketNarutoNerdOncer wrote: I actually enjoyed the episode, it was something different. It also showed that Team 8 isn't just a team that wins all the time, they also lose sometimes. I mean, if they had won that fight, there would have been no substance to the Chunin exam. Everyone has a moment when they win, and that moment when they lose. Team Kurenai had to lose a fight because if they didn't they wouldn't be seen as true characters, because they would have in no way gotten emotion out of us. The reason for episodes like this are to give us those little looks into characters we normally don't get to see. I also feel like we shouldn't complain about filler episodes because those are put in so that they have time to make the regular episodes better. I don't mind Team Kurenai losing a fight, as long as it is a good one against a formidable enemy. When Hinata fought Pain she stood no chance of winning yet she fought (or at least attempted to) and lost, it was good and very much acceptable. But she along with Shino and Kiba losing to a blob of fat, was disgusting. Every single time Shnio was down I was expecting him to dissolve into bugs revealing that to be a bug clone and he caught his enemies by surprise. But that never did happened and they made him look ridiculous. Not to mention Shino defeated powerful enemies like the Ultrasonic sound guy and Konkuro well before this Arc, not because of brute strength but by using very good tactics and working in sync with his bugs. In this arc shino was nothing but a wooden dummy!