what was the first half exactly? battle of the replications? Shino's team only got owned cuz they forgot to make one more replication. (to rescue hinata)

Plus why did Hinata's trap involve flying down a water cavern? You'd think they could just have one deadly bee sting her instead.

Finally, bees willing to sacrifice their lives with hundreds of explosive tags seems a little bit much for a bug user. It almost makes anything Shino do worthless unless his bugs always had tags strung to them as well. Sort of takes the fun and strategy out of the bug war.

That and what ubersuperhacker said.

But at least they keep the dramatic soap-opera style chit chat to a minimum. Quickened the pace of the battles a LOT better than the previous filler.