Originally posted by: AssertnFailure
i think the anime's approach to lee's recovery was worse than in the manga.
In the manga, the main thing holding lee back was the operation he still needed to have. An operation only takes like an hour or so.

In the anime, the main thing holding lee back was the rehabilitation process after the operation. In the manga you can assume that there was no real rehabilitation process (even though tsunade insisted on there being one), but the anime made him look weak after the surgery, and the transition from trying to walk up a flight of stairs to catching up with the genins is alot less believable than catching up with the genins after a successful operation.
well, theres always the consideration that lee may be a in a terible amount of pain at the time, which is why he bothers (or attepmts) to bring medication with him. lee could be taking the pain like a man the same way that kimimaro is moving with a body that shouldnt move. in fact, that was my original thought when lee first returned. i thought lee versus kimimaro would be a fight between 2 people standing up on while power alone. shame that isnt the way it turned out, it would have been way deeper.

Originally posted by: Death BOO Z
I'll accept that it might be possible for the sand ninjas to be much faster than others, but it still makes very little sence...
as you said, they all left at 0500, and now it's about 12 hours after that? (it's still daylight, and i doubt that they took a break for the night), but remember that Tsunade probably sent for help after she sent the genins (she didn't think that oro's elite group would be there), and the messanger to the sane village had to spend time getting there, and considering that Sasuke and Naruto arrived the leaf border only recently, they need to be hella fast to get there....

possible? yes. but it still smells like someone seriously messed up ...
dude, theyve got powerlines, ear pieces, and televison. why shouldnt they have telephones too?in this day in age communication is a simple task. the sand is only a phone call away. hell theres no reason why all ninja teams shouldnt travel with advanced communications. having trouble? call the leaf up for reinforcements!