The fillers had so much potential to be great but ever since the after battle between Shira vs Lee fight, it went downhill and we could've seen more Fuu and the rain ninja, but they were completely wasted and instead they were dragging the arc so much that we had to deal with every single one over 3+ episodes with that ridiculous pacing.
In the forest of death, it was much more concise and much more interesting given so much mysterious vibe to every characters that was introduce to the storyline and not to mention the whole conspiracy plot were suspense . The theme were so dark given the fights we've had were much more intense and unique formula of the ninja battle system.
We don't need to see flashback within flashback almost every single episodes just all the stuff that we've already seen or the moment that we pretty much know what's gonna happen, it's so ridiculously annoying, so much fillerception kills the Hype for this arc.
Yes there are couple flashback that I find it interesting such as Team Gai and Ino mind transfering technique.
It was going nowhere and just when we finally get to the main important stuff, SP decided to quickly wrapped up only to get to the canon.
Gaara and Fuu were nerfed so badly against that Fodder villain, how the f*ck does the chain by pass gaara defense?? and then we had to deal with almost the entirety of the episodes of the boring ass chains obtaining the Bijuu chakra without any epic fights. I'm so disappointed that Neji doesn't do enough to be worthy of becoming a Jounin, all he does to get promoted is releasing high density Bijuu chakra chains. I expected Neji to go all out against an formidable opponent that consider a major threat such as the Akatsuki that was being hyped up to show up and intervene and kill the Jiinchiruke like every filler arcs .
But instead they were just there to show up, and Fuu doesn't do anything, nothing impacted in this arc.
