Naruto 183 Discussion Thread

[Vegechan]

Personally, I watch every episode, because sometimes they surprise me. For example, the Anko arc. I thought that was a good arc. Had it's flaws, but overall, a decent arc. Sometimes, certain parts of a particular bad arc had it's small moments.

I think people keep watching, because of hope. They hope that it will redeem itself and be rewarding. However, as episodes of dissapointment go by, they start to lose more and more hope, thus them saying they won't watch anymore. There are already a number of people that have stopped watching and won't until the fillers end. But there are still some fans who watch being hopeful. Others watch because they find how bad it is amusing. And others just like inflicting pain upon themselves but find cutting their wrists a bit too drastic XD.

Plus, it's like a train wreck. So horrific, you can't look away.

[fahoumh]

Well said, Vegechan

[mage]

I usually just wait until there's about 10 episodes out then watch them all at once. They're a lot better this way.

[dman]

anyone else think the saving grace of the episode was the intro for the nex episode where we see kiba drawn pretty well...havent seen kiba & pet in a while

[woofcat]

All that keeps me going over all these filler arks are the hope that they will return to manga story line soon, old animes, and blood+. Thats about all that keeps me running.

Also i did enjoy the new opening.

[DDBen]

Wow that was about as horrible an ending as I could have imagined for this arc. Anybody else notice that if even the worst case of "star poisoning" could just be fixed by Konoha that it defeated the reason for stopping the training in the first place? I mean say one super ninjacomes out of 100 kids the others get sick for a bit but can be treated in no time and well you have 1 super ninja and no deaths whats the problem?

[lonewolf]

Naruto was sent to protect the thievery of the Meteorite. He fails. He finds out who's the thief and sympathizes.

Story C-
Climax D
Plot D
Music A
Graphic C


Couple of people were disgruntled with how the arc ended.
1) Neji's role limitation
2) Justification for fighting the substitute Akahoshi
3) Overuse of Rasengan
4) Akahoshi hiring competiting village.

Miscellaneous
-Predictability of the ending
-Neji's leadership in question
-Long Arc, short, sour ending.


Quirks about this epi:
1) Akahoshi was mentioned being alive and as captive despite having Rasengan blown a meteorite lodged into his chest.
2) A deceased Sumaru's mother learns a new technique.
3) Akahoshi recruited his enemy village and they destroyed him. Generally, it doesnt make sense but remember he doesnt trust anyone, even his guards.
4) The increased amount of Hoshi ninjas at the end made no sense. It defeated the purpose of hiring Konoha ninjas. If they were there but on missions where were they? Why are they so pitifully weak?
5) Sumaru was all talk. Despite glowing anger, claim to being skillful, he couldn't survive a fire or huff and puff an exit through straw walls.
6) Naruto's Mass clone is decreasing in numbers steadily. Loss of stamina?
7) Sumaru's mother died the same way as previous Hoshikage: stabbed in the back.

You know, if you want to do a better job of it, try writing the script for their story. I don't think anyone of you can do anything above better than them. If you don't believe me write one yourself. I'll eat dirt if anyone here can submit even a good one that doesn't plagarise (coming from some book you've read or heard), or personalize (writing about yourself); a good story is only good if its original. And I think everyone Naruto encounter should end with Rasengan. That's Naruto's job!

For Neji fans, too bad he can't be a good leader. He failed chuunin exam afterall.
Neji's far from useless but I doubt he can be a leader. His group is a clone of Naruto's group, he and Sasuke being clone storywise, in character, and drama. He can't use the divine wind being in a group, he has no jutsu to aid such as shadow bind, and he is better going one on one or solo missions himself. Sure he got the Byakugan but It doesnt help when you got a two dodo birds and at least one of them will jump before you can come up with a plan.

[Terracosmo]

anyone else think the saving grace of the episode was the intro for the nex episode where we see kiba drawn pretty well...havent seen kiba & pet in a while

I'm looking forward to seeing Kiba's sister again

[Edort4]

And then all our nightmares come true.... Really dissapointing episode. It felt like if they where anxious to end this arc as fast as possible. Only Natsume or that singing milf died thanks to 3!!!! kunai in her back (where she actually had that peacock thing that any other time deflected them). I guess that one corpse per arc is more than enough for a show that has made his audience 6 years old narutards.

Next one looks a lot better, akamaru took some bad stuff and went berserk, what I have all this years been waiting for. hurray!!

[Psyke]

Natsuhi looked like a stuff toy, with the way 3 kunais were stuffed behind her back without a single drop of blood. Seems no one's surprised that the filler's aren't ending. For me I don't really care much now, as Naruto's really becoming a chore to download each week. I still read the manga though.

[Cyberdude93]

6) Naruto's Mass clone is decreasing in numbers steadily. Loss of stamina?

Loss of the animators' will to click Ctrl+V a few more times.

And I hated this episode. And that's saying something; the fillers are crap, but I enjoy watching most of them nevertheless (as opposed to watching nothing). This one however was just not worth the watch for me.

This is definitely the worst arc ending for me, if not the worst filler episode.

[DarthEnderX]

I still say the last episode of the Curry arc was the best filler ever. Drunk Lee + Neji w/ Curry poisoning + atomized Raiga = Victoly!

Seems no one's surprised that the filler's aren't ending.

Well, most of us read the "upcoming episode titles" thread, so we already knew they weren't ending.

[ShinobiNiNaritai]

Ok, so basically everyone in this star episode is an idiot, none more so than the adults of the Star village. How dumb do you have to be to not even notice what is going on with the star training. And wtf is up with Akahoshi just spilling his guts about everything all of a sudden? No self-respecting evil mastermind would just spill the beans like that without some sort of hard evidence against him. And seriously the shinobi in this village cannot sense a projectile coming at them for the life of them, apparently.

How is it that out of the 4 of them Naruto is the only one who is able to land on his feet and not affected by the "star blast". Definitely the other three are more advanced in training than he is. They really also need to give Naruto a lot more sense and moves.

The only good thing, or should I say, one thing that I liked in this episode was when I thought he had killed Akahoshi by blowing him literally to pieces. I was like wow cool he destroyed him and you can see the "blast" all through him. But then they had to freakin wreck that by saying that he was still alive. WTF was up with that!?!
Not even gonna talk about the ending.

Edit: What was that? "there's nothing good in the episode, stop making shit up." That is the comment along with the big neg rep it came with. Apparently whoever gave me that big neg didnt read anything I said. I didnt make anything up, and FYI I didnt like this episode. Com'on people, someone else not me needs a couple blows from that cluehammer.

[IFHTT]

Ok so if you wedge pieces of meteorite into your chest you become super saiyan?

[Vegechan]

No, more like a rejected Capcom fighter.

[Naruto_Fan]

i hated it. they made us sit through a pretty long filler arc and then just end it with sumaru's mom pretty much like molesting naruto and then all of a sudden naruto's rasengan works b/c it supposedly "powers" it up?

why didn't it blow thru that "yondaime hoshikage"?

to make it worse, they ended by doing a flashout, and then those 3 star village guys r in konoha and evidently all better.

even worse, we still have more fillers....-_-

[Psyke]

Well look on the bright side, at least we get to see Kiba's sister next week . Can't get any worse than what we've watched this week. Errr......right?

[LobsterMagnet]

This filler arc is probably one of the most tolerable ones yet. By no means was it any good it just wasn't sickeningly bad as some of the other ones. I'm actually looking forward to next weeks episode, the idea Akamaru getting rabies is fricking hilarious, might actually be the best filler plot line yet. Here's looking forward to Kiba's long day.

[darkmetal505]

Whatever, we all know that this guy was the real mastermind and Hoshikage. Screw Akahoshi. The writers totally took a leaf out of Harry Potter with the mother sacrifice you can't touch me notion.

[Itachi_man]

No more stupid bear country or star non- sense! Naruto go find Sasuke!