bakasan's Naruto 77

[Assertn]

people complain about how dbz is all action and nothing but fights ALL the time. then another series comes out, and the creator of that one involves the plot more and adds background to all the significant characters, and then applies this same technique to build up one of the biggest fights that will conclude a saga that's been airing for over a year with deep emotional elements regarding the characters personalities and experiences, then people complain about THAT.......

there's just no pleasing some people
and thats not just directed to you, booJay

[MightyDustLoop]

Actually, the remainder of the flashback was handled quite well. I was getting bored to tears with it in the last episode but I actually (gasp) enjoyed that aspect in this episode. But, yeah, the second half was drawing out a lot of things as much as possible, from Hokage (yet again) to Naruto being antagonized for nearly ten minutes straight.

It's not bad, none of the series is, but there's just so much that could be cut out. They can maintain enough for suspense and still get rid of ~5 minutes an episode on average. And yeah, it wouldn't be AS suspenseful, but it'd be pretty close considering the time alteration. Series is overall good, it's just when it kinda drags a little the first time there's not a lot of incentive to be going back. When it gets R1ed (eventually), I'll just be picking up the volumes with my favorite fights, whereas if I felt it was a little better paced I would have considered the whole thing.

[kenjisamurai]

This isn't the best way to solve the codec problem but you can open the file in virtualdub and it still plays, although in a quarterscreen window. I just re-encoded it with divx cuz I wanted full screen and all.