Any halfway decent anime should already have covered all you need to know about the side characters. Anything else is just someone else's (as in, someone besides the original author's) take on the series, which in a lot of cases, is either wrong, or executed very poorly. A fanfic with a high budget, if you will. At any rate, most of the filler hasn't been about side characters. It's been about Naruto. Using the Rasengan and farting. Over. And over.Originally Posted by Animeniax
What you just described is acceptable filler material. A short break in between canon material to buy a small amount of time and offer a light-hearted episode to fill that time. That's not what this filler is, however. You know it. In fact, most of the filler thusfar has been as you say: seeing them "go from fighting one super villain to the next". I actually enjoy the shorter filler arcs (like the Kakashi mask one, or the one about the Lee/Gai impersonators) every once in a while. But we've been putting up with crap like the Baka Brothers, Raiga, and the Hoshikage for over a year now. That gives us few options:They are a good way to lighten the mood between some dark and troubling storylines. Or would you rather have them go from fighting one super villain to the next without any breaks in between?
1. To stop watching (as I and many others have)
2. To continue watching the filler, keeping a critical opinion of what you are watching (as any intelligent anime viewer might).
3. Watch bad filler and accept it just because it's "Naruto". I personally find that to be a far less mature way of going about this situation. However, it's probably not as bad as 4. To bitch, moan, and yell "OMG FILLERZ SUCK". So I agree with you in that respect, I think. Just don't tell us to sit back and accept the scraps we're thrown.
I'm pretty anxious to see what happens after the time-jump, not to watch Naruto pander to kiddies who will gobble up every retarded episode they get.
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