Hrm, interesting. I agree with you guys though. I wish the conversation would have been longer, and I didn't get how Minato didn't know the easy stuff like his age, but knew that Pain was the one who killed Jiraiya, etc.

Also, I was like 'what the heck?' at the end, where not only was Naruto unharmed from the 8tails tranformation, but was in Sage mode... Only explanation I can come up with is Minato either imparted the rest of his chakra into Naruto when restoring the seal, or he managed to stay still long enough to draw in a fair amount of natural energy, which doesn't really make sense to me since he just busted out of the rock and morphed back out of fox form. I dunno.

As for sealing the kyuubi inside of Naruto as a possible defense against Madara, he perhaps did it to potentially keep Madara from having control over the kyuubi with Naruto's mastery of/bonding with kyuubi, not to mention it's a crap ton of chakra... it's hard to tell before they face off though, because we've already seen Sasuke completely nullify the kyuubi from within Naruto. It'll be interesting to see how the relationship between Naruto and the kyuubi grows if it does at all... I know I've wanted to see them grow more a team though, so I hope that happens. I really enjoyed seeing the close relationship between killer bee and the 8 tails...

In addition, hell yah he's the son of the 4th, now show us some yellow flash! =)