I thought episode 69 definitely ruled. Sasuke was gaining on Gaara, Pakku was biting Shikamaru (who was never really under the illusion spell, lol), and Gai whooped some serious ass ("He's Fast" "Not just fast, [BAM!]&quot. One thing i was really upset about is Shino. I read some past posts in this topic, but i was really surprised to see someone so cool be such a...well...wuss. Why is he just hiding in the shadows? He may be planning something, but, come on, he's definintely one of the stronger Genin (and definitely Chuunin Level), and I personally think he could take Sound Ninja without any trouble. Hokage finally looked like what he's supposed to look like. No more hanging around talking, he actually threw down and took Orochimaru for a while. The ANBU team was all like "He's so strong," and he really was. I was real disappointed to see that about 7 minutes in total were wasted by Konohamaru and Iruka (POINTLESS!!!!&#33...I hope NAruto isn't gonna turn out to be another DBZ-type anime (by that I mean good for the first couple sagas, then you get the episodes where people stand around, wondering what move they COULD have used to win)...As the Naruto fan I consider myself to be, I couldn't get to sleep immediately last night, so I watched ep 69 twice more, wondering what episode 70 is gonna be like...