Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
In my opinion Shikamaru's fight was made better by that. He was not any ultimate fighting man, and thus it added a sense of realism he couldn't finish the sound girl off, due to lack of power, not lack of plans. Plus I think it was a really nice scene where Temari saved him, establishing those two as a pair (as much as Naruto can have any couples in the first place).

Edit: Correct pronoun.
But I didn't like the fact that Temari got rid of Tayuya so "easily". Just using two techniques or something and she was finished. You can blame it on her tiredness, but it showed a huge power difference between her and Shikamaru.