Pretty decent episode in comparison to the last one, save for Gaara's seemingly always-changing appearance. Seriously, each framerate he looked like a different person. Whoever is drawing him needs to be fired.

There was also the whole issue of filler flashbacks. It almost made me lol irl when Naruto had a flash back from five minutes before, when Kakashi used the techniques. Seriously, what's the point of having a flashback that everyone's already seen minutes before?

The fight so far is decent, but a bit dragged on. Not that that's bad or anything, but it was potrayed better in the manga I think.

Regardless, at least this episode showed me that the Naruto anime can be decent in portraying the manga. After last week's episode I was ready to drop the anime completely.