Naruto Chapter 436

[Abdula]

The last 2 pages were the only pages that mattered. The first 15 or so pages were completely fodder and useless.

I completely agree. Its really nice to know Kishi will never change though, his idea of suspense is quite hysterical and he makes it seriously hard to believe that Konoha's ninjas can do anything. First there was Sakura simply knocking out a summon that a bunch of other nameless ninjas couldn't do anything against, Konohamaru taking out a Pain body when so many others couldn't and then with all the other clues they have, the village has to be destroyed and countless people killed just so Shikamaru can use the line "bring the corpses" for them to put it all together, unbelievable.

still, I'm pretty pissed that they ruined Payne's image

Not ruined per se just balanced. Its both a good thing and a bad thing but it is what Kishimoto does, just look at Itachi.

I wonder about this weapon he speaks of. Or was he just referring to the fact that having all the tailed beasts at your disposal is a weapon in itself?

I really don't know or care that much really because we know it'll probably never get to that point but this isn't the first time they have mentioned some ultimate technique/weapon. If memory serves, we've heard Madara talk about "the machine" which is why he needs the bijuu, most importantly the Kyuubi along with Sasuke's sharingan and when Jiraiya first mentioned the key Minato left for Naruto, he also mentioned "that jutsu" something Minato left behind for Naruto to complete and to do so he would need full control of the Kyuubi's power. It could all be the same thing, who knows...