Quote Originally Posted by Tyreal
I hope I don't get reported for this or anything. But the next arc (judging from that preview a few weeks ago) looks to be what I would consider semi-filler. I think it's going to go more in-depth than the manga on something the manga just mentioned and showed a few pages of. It's possible that that was done intentionally in the manga to create a half decent filler arc. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself. I don't want to say any more than that in case I give something away.
That doesn't sound so bad. Even if the Naruto filler script writers are absolutely abominable at coming up with their own plots, they might be good enough to use an original snippet to create something larger.

Quote Originally Posted by lilphatboi88
Yes it is someone in this forum. I think it could quite possibly be you. That person said that we're like 100 episodes behind the manga, so no filler for a while.
It's a delicate situation: Fillers surely don't promote the series or increase the audience but on the other hand approaching the source limit should be the worst nightmare for the studio. In that sense it would be wise for them to have short fillers, or preferably semi-fillers, here and there rather than quickly burn through all the manga story and then be left licking their fingers.