The plot for this arc seems on par with some of the other tolerable fillers, however I've recently noticed several discrepancies creeping up in the way the charachters behave. After Naruto grabs the huge guys hand and starts running he gets winded, while the big guy and the guard are perfectly fine. It's hard to believe a ninja who trains hard everyday (and has a demon sealed inside of him) would have less stamina than a prison guard. Also when Sakura and Lee were shown running right before they got jumped by those kids, they were running on the ground. Most episodes prior depicted the ninja's prefered method of high speed movement as leaping through trees. Little things like this aren't all that important but I feel like they're damaging the show more than many of the goofy plots we've seen so far.