goddamn. people are still watching this show? i picked up this episode, and, lol, there really is nothing more pointless than Naruto filler episodes... so formulaic. i didn't even need to have seen any of the previous parts of this arc to know what was going to happen

even then, i did think the episode felt surprisingly well done, but we're talking like a chef of a five start restaurant preparing a baloney sandwich well done.

i used to read the manga... but then i started thinking that Naruto is like an entire filler arc of what could have been time spent on quality anime.