Was a good ep, but.. Maybe I just had my expectations too high. Not as much action as I thought there should have been and a lil too much (in some cases repetetive) crowd reaction.

Gaara is talking to his mother.. cause she was sacrificed upon his birth to the sand spirit that is posessed in him. Basically SHE is the sand spirit. And she's trying to take over Gaara to do his dirty work for him if he doesn't do it well enough himself. That's how I see it anyway. I think the whole psychopath role was really well done.

Oh yeah and there was music during the Chidori, just wasn't the usual music. A lil hard to hear over Chidori's sounds, but it's there.

~Chris