Yes, it sucks that the wait for the next one will be so long.

There was a lot of buildup here, but they managed to actually make the 4 tails transformation a little more interesting than it was in the manga. I don't recall the water-treading hallucinations or floating through the Kyuubi rot-iron gate, I thought it was done well. The flashbacks I could have done without, of course. I'll agree that there was too little action for a special-especially at this point in the story. But man, of the action we got, it was awesome to see Orochimaru get his face messed up and lose an arm to Naruto. An arm! Don't start with the "But Oro haxx0red and got them back," the last time it happened was a last ditch effort by a hokage level and Naruto hasn't even put effort into this yet. Aside from his diaphragm I mean.

The Sakura KO due to heat-seeking Kabuto forced a lol outta me.