I'm enjoying the flashbacks, myself. Maybe it's because I like the way they are portraying Itachi, all alone and aloof. And he's got a great voice for his character, sort of melancholy. It makes me wonder if perhaps Itachi kept Sasuke alive because he wants his younger brother to take revenge on him, and ultimately kill him, hence all the advice on how to grow up hating him and stuff, which would kind of mean somewhere deep down Itachi feels maybe a hint of remorse for what he did.... hmmmm. I beginning to like Itachi more and more, oh yeah.

I do agree that the cut scenes showing Sasuke beating the hell out of Naruto aren't that fun to watch, but I guess they're necessary just to show that we are in fact watching a show called Naruto and not 'The Misadventures of a Cute But Troubled Boy'. Come on, how cute is Little Sasuke?? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

Oh, I forgot to add, you can get those episodes by DB and/or Aone from a great place called

Naruto Chuushin but I warn you, it comes with a load of pop-ups and crap, which is a pity because it's a great site and where I normally get my manga from. You can only seem to download single episodes from their front page (I think they source it from elsewhere), so read down the page and look at the headings for the ep you want.
There's also Naruto Chaos who have DB torrents of the last several episodes, and some Aone ones, and I know they have Aone's 127-128, and 129