The next episode is aired 10th of januari abdula.

If Abdula is my father, is yuki my mother? (That was a joke guys) :P

And as you say abdula, there are a lot of useless movements and actions taken in the battles, but the ones you mention are bad examples. Deidara escaped in an attempt to lose Kakashii, and to get some distance between Naruto and the rest of the teams, which is actually a good strategical move since Naruto will act accordingly. In the anime that traveled time seems a lot longer since some of it is probably filler.

I dislike the rock, scissor, paper system just because powers aren't really scrutinized, it leaves a gap... I'll leave it at that.

Anyways, sorry for acting up. If you had your good day, I had my bad day. I had just finished my Naruto marathon watching every Naruto non-filler episode from the beginning of the series to episode 40-41 (and I stopped watching at the end of the Gaara arc so I could see 8 episodes in a batch to finalize this marathon) in 3.5 days.