Re: Enough of that ****ing fillers
I feel like having the fillers right now was pointless. As it is the Manga is still about 70 chapters ahead of the anime, which is like 30 anime episodes, around there. If they kept making anime episodes every week, it would eventually catch up with the manga and that's the point of the fillers, though I think they've been going a bit overboard with it lately. All we really need is a few filler episodes here and there, or some fluff material in the episodes.
They probably could have gone a month or two more without any fillers easily, and then made like 2 filler episodes for the manga to get a bit further ahead again. The problem is that the anime progresses faster. Personally I think it's a combination of this and the fact that more episodes=more money from ad revenue in Japan, and I'm sure Naruto Shippuden has a pretty big audience in Japan every week and rakes in a lot of money.
Fillers aren't always all bad though. Some are entertaining and it gives us more Naruto to enjoy, but the recent ones have sucked horribly. Especially Road to Sakura and Chikara force I'm like a broken record complaining about them every time i get a chance lol