Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170531105724/@comment-31793602-20170531150510

@Thekillman I get your point, but what I'm saying is they used half the episode on something they've already done pretty much every other episode before this one. Since Denki, the scenes were progressive. Every time he fought the shadow he got something new from it. On today's episode, I felt the scene was pretty much thrown in there. It's obvious the shadow needs to keep possessing people for the story to move forward, but for me, that scene from today didn't really help in that matter.

In regard of what you said the episode confirmed, I didn't really think any of that helped that much. Everyone could've guessed Himawari had not used her Byakugan since first activating it, and if she did, it doesn't really change the story. Boruto being superior to Naruto at that age is something obvious by now. I'm pretty sure almost every dojutsu has been shown to be able to activate instinctively in battle, at least the ones the series was most focused on. To be fair, we didn't really know for the byakugan, but they pretty much said it was that way at the end of last week's episode. And it was already shown or rather presented before that the world is heavily influenced by Naruto.

I do agree on what you said about them showing Boruto maturing, although, he's just a kid so we can't expect him to think like an adult, and also on them showing how Naruto feels about Boruto, specifically when he said he knew he wasn't lying, since it has been shown before he's not happy with him being so laid back on his training.