Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20150507113846/@comment-25626003-20150508235538

Norleon wrote: 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. Maybe on episode #413, they'll give you tidbits of things still left unchecked. Things like how the 2nd Animal Path chick got killed, who in the Akatsuki nabbed Fū, how everyone became a Chunin besides Neji, who made Jounin. It's pretty obvious to me it'll probably either all happen in one swoop considering the timing, or the animators won't bother. Based on the episode titles, I'd say May 21st is the last filler episode.