Thank goodness that's over with.

[laverinth.livejournal.com]

For those of you who were waiting for the filler to be over before you started watching the anime again - it's over. We now return you to our regularly scheduled Akatsuki.

There were a lot of annoying things about this arc, but I'm really only going to discuss a couple. The others I will jot down in a list for you to laugh/growl at, because obviously I couldn't not mention them completely.

Ignoring (for now) the fact that:
- the filler had its own arc long enough to need its own opening
- it wasn't terribly well written
- the characterization was poor
- it tried to use plot elements that actual canon still hasn't revealed much about (Danzo, etc)
- one of the main characters was shafted for an OC (though Sai may have ultimately been the lucky one)
- said OC was really just a Sasuke/Gaara clone
- the filler villains managed to cause trouble to the village on equal par with Orochimaru (which is insulting to both the village and said main baddie) AND copy his resurrection technique without the apparent sacrifice of anyone else (because they're far too clever for that)
- it took half the village to take out zombies that disappeared in a hit
- no one in the village can strategize without the help of Shikamaru, apparently (see above)
- Akamaru spent the arc at about half the size he should have been (animation issue?)
- the Gaara mindscape device was reused, and poorly (this pissed me off more than just about everything listed)
- they couldn't even be original in the way Sora and Naruto were bandaged at the end

...IGNORING ALL THAT...

There's the whole issue with the two "kings". This makes me wonder if at any point in time our new villains actually discussed the matter of taking out the Hokage/ninja village with the country's feudal lord. Because you'd think, if they had, said feudal lord might have had something to say about it - such as the fact that removing Konoha would put the Fire Country at an extreme disadvantage against, oh, every other nation. There was a reason the countries originally hired ninja clans to fight for them. What were they going to do, protect the country themselves? They'd be like the only ninja left. If filler has taught us anything, it's that regular military type troops don't stand a chance against even low-level ninja - if the countries even have armies of another sort.

Not much planning ahead there, I say.

Next, let's move on to the Kyuubi clone. So... they "gathered up the Kyuubi's chakra." Wtf did they do, run around after the battle with magic chakra nets open or something? I wasn't aware that chakra just hung in the air like steam. Even giving them the benefit of the doubt with that, are they saying they were able to recreate the actual demon within Sora? Because that would be the only explanation for why Sora would lose control like that to it. Naruto takes that form when he loses it because the actual Kyuubi is breaking free. There's another mind in there dictating things. It's not just the chakra doing it.

If they'd managed to truly clone the Kyuubi... that's a big freakin' deal. Firstly, I don't think the real Kyuubi would be happy about being cloned and would put up more of a struggle than the usual "Let me out, kid. You know you wanna!" Also, it wouldn't be something that could just be dispelled from Sora and vanish into thin air. What, Naruto has the ability to remove the tailed beasts from people now? No, it couldn't be a real clone, and the fact that it isn't makes Sora's losing control to it in the manner he did illogical.

And what the hell were those spikes?? Apparently being unnaturally infused with the Kyuubi's chakra causes weird spiky growths. Remember this, kids. Kyuubi chakra is bad for the skin.


Well, with that off my chest I feel a bit better. Feel free to rant along with me if you want.

And if you liked this filler arc... Well, pay me/us no mind.

Comments

[laverinth.livejournal.com]

It ended this week. The introduction of Kakuzu and Hidan is at the very end of it, though. :\

It's not even necessary! They're over a hundred chapters behind the manga. There's no need to hold up for the sake of not overrunning it. -_-

[nefertieh.livejournal.com]

The most logical thing is to add filler about other characters, that like, don't involve Naruto. >___> They obviously don't have the skill to write good fillers, unless it's total crack (101). ~___~

Thanks for the info. :P I hope they don't end up making a giant filler arc about two-tails before killing her off, though.

I hope I didn't just jinx it. @_@