I liked this ep. Tho i also think that most of the jounins where to weak but the anime wuldent move forward if everyone was 1337 ninjas with a shit load of jutsus, it wuld take a long time to come up with all those jutsus and all the fights wuld have been like 1 ep each and thats how i understand why many of them got killed so easy. And the snakes... hmm why does it seam like they are stuck togeather? If they are... then are they really snakes?
Im very much looking forward to the next episode. Now things are starting to get intresting again.