Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31123919-20170123024706/@comment-734582-20170124095821

Rachin123 wrote: Oh right I forgot about that. See this just makes his escape even more bs. He shouldn't have had the time or chakra to pull off what he did. Individually any of the things he did might've just succeeded. It's the combination of things that make it so hard to swallow.

The moment the explosion goes off and the Manga moves to a different scene, Sasuke could conceivably have summoned Manda inbetween him and the explosion. Manda tanks the explosion buying Sasuke valuable fractions of a second to hop in.

The problem is that he then also needs to control Manda and de-summon him (since Summons dont leave themselves when knocked out, e.g. Naruto's giant toads against Pain). Manda was powerful enough that Orochimaru apparently respected (or tolerated) him. The faster Sasuke subdues him, the more BS it looks. But the slower Sasuke subdues him, the more BS it looks.