Lamest Naruto Episode evar. (Naruto Shippuuden #28)
We just finished watching this episode, and I can’t get over how totally stupid it was. Honestly, it might not be the lamest episode; I didn’t watch the filler turd that was churned out for over a year and a half between Naruto and Naruto Shippuuden. And there were some pretty bad episodes outside of that filler period (i.e. Kakashi’s Mask episode), but those were dumb on purpose.
While I guess this post technically has spoilers, the events in this episode are pretty minor compared to the main story. During this arc, there’s three battles going on concurrently, and the battle this episode focuses on is the least important. In fact, the entire battle is pretty much a waste of time, both in terms of what’s happening in the story and television airtime. If you’re concerned about spoilers, you’d be doing yourself a bigger disservice by watching the next-episode previews at the end of each episode (insanely spoiler-ific this season) than reading the rest of this post.
For those not keeping up with Naruto Shippuuden, as I mentioned before, there’s three battles going on. Guy-sensei and his underlings (Rock Lee, Neji, and the ever-so-useless Ten-Ten) have been sent in for backup. Because of some overly complicated trap, they end up fighting themselves. Yes, they’re fighting clones of themselves.
Even in anime world of Naruto, this trap clone concept is pretty out there. When these clones pop up, the person who set the trap isn’t there. Nobody is controlling these clones. Yet, through some magical-ninja-super-AI and magical-ninja-physics, these clones think identically and have the exact same equipment as the people they copy… with the additional benefit that they have unlimited energy. The whole idea is about as retarded as the entire concept of Deidara (guy has hands with mouths that chew clay, which is then molded into little birds and bugs, which then grow to gargantuan sizes, which he either rides around on or uses as the anime equivalent of the A-bomb).
You’d think fighting clones could be awesome, but it’s not. It’s really boring to watch. Because the clones are so much like them, Team Guy pretty much gets nowhere fighting them. And they get nowhere for TEN EPISODES, repeatedly doing the same moves to each other (AKA lazy animators recycling footage). Sure, there’s a much better fight going on, and most of the ten episodes focus on that fight. Yet they seem to insist on distracting viewer from the main fight (which is infinitely more interesting) and waste our time; the show randomly goes back to Team Guy during these episodes, to remind us in case we forgot that they are STILL fighting with themselves. The main fight is pretty awesome, which makes these clone fights seem even lamer.
Episode #28 is devoted solely to the clone fights, which alone makes it automatically a crappy episode. As they fight and began to lose, the team starts wondering how come their opponents are getting stronger. Neji (least moronic member of Team Guy) comes up with this world-rocking revelation that their clones aren’t getting stronger, but they themselves (being regular human non-clone ninjas) are getting tired and weaker.
So they’re getting weaker, and their clones aren’t. Even Ten-Ten (most useless member of Team Guy) realizes that the gap between themselves and the clones are getting bigger; they’re fighting a losing battle, literally. What do they do? There’s no way they can get out of this situation, right?
Oh, but there is a way! There’s always a way! Rock (dorkiest member of Team Guy) comes up with this brilliant idea: we’ll become stronger than our clones! What do you mean, Rock? You mean open up forbidden chakra gates and unleash some hidden ultimate power? NO! Through inspiration and motivation! Rock reminds everyone of his motto, “Become stronger than you were yesterday!” He explains they train each day, aiming to be better than they were the day before. So they just have to do what they do everyday… except faster and right now. “It’s so simple!”
Yeah, so he basically tells everybody to try harder. Apparently, when they were fighting for their lives as they were trying to prevent some world-destroying evil for the last 10 episodes, they weren’t trying that hard. Soooo… stupid. Anyway, so they all do decide to try harder. This means everybody spontaneously comes up with brand new ass-kicking moves on the spot, with the exception of the ever-so-useless Ten-Ten, who just busts out the humongous giant scroll she was carrying on her back that she apparently just totally forgot about the entire time (which makes absolutely no sense, since her clone should also have this scroll). They beat the clones, and the episode is thankfully over.
That really wasn’t worth an entire episode.
New thing I learned today: Polar bears are from the Arctic, which is the opposite of Antarctic, which means South Pole, so polar bears from the North Pole. For some reason, I thought they were from the South Pole, like penguins. Maybe I’ve been watching too many Coca-Cola commercials.
and oh my god, I somehow deleted several of my paragraphs in the editing process. I’m sad and stressed out now. I’ve rewritten those sections even tho I don’t remember what I wrote, so please excuse me if I sound disjointed and crazy.
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lol. i kept waiting for some neat trick, some hidden strategy to turn the tide–especially after they spent so much time building it up. rock’s strategy was… flabbergasting. i mean i was really just stunned by its stupidity. even some trite strategy like swapping members to fight different clones would have been preferable.
but i thought about it, and i was like, you know what, that was kind of appropriate for team gai. i mean you don’t call a guy rock for nothing right? Justin long: “What’s your plan?” Bruce Willis “‘Im gonna go kill this guy and get my daughter. Or go get my daughter and kill this guy. Or kill all of ‘em! “
1Hey! I LOVE your writting! It rocks! I can’t believe how dumb that episode was! You’re right, how come Ten-Ten 2 didn’t have that scroll? I kept expecting Lee to whip out some super secret new move he had been working on while he was making that speech, but NOTHING!!!!!!!!!! What a waste of time for anyone watching! If the American version ever gets caught up (probably never will! ((Horrible voice on Gaara by the way; bothers me)) Maybe they can turn it into something better, though Lee seems even dorkier (If possible) in the american version. Gonna look for more of your writtings! C ya!
2LOL!
Tenten is completely and utterly useless. I particularly liked how she kinda gave up and resolved to let herself drown in the river until Lee came up with that whole stronger than yesterday idea.
3you have no idea about team gai
4yeah i watched that episode a while back… it was so pathetic it made me want to cry a bit.
5Omigod no way! Ten-ten is my favourite character.
6Well, Neji and Ten-ten anyway :)
I’m sorry if you ppl dont agree with me but at least Ten-ten DOES fight, and do SOMETHING, unlike that stupid Sakura, who would probably be standing behind Naruto and Saske screaming:
“OMIGOD we’re getting attacked! i better just stand here and do nothing and cry and hit on Saske!!!”
And im sorry if im sounding angry but Ten-Ten is my absoloute favourite and im very protective. Shes effing rad. :D
xx.
yeah.. i agree these episodes were stupid.. but! Tenten does have some use to the team! She observes things that other people would never pick up on.. like in that one episode where that one guy blows himself up.. she relized that both sides of the tree were burnt there for there had to be more than just one explosion.. I LOVE NEJI AND TENTEN!!
7Wow you mean if i hope I’ll be stronger and then i try hard enough it happens instantly? Well then I figured out how i can please the girls better I’ll try to have a bigger penis and it will happen yay oh yeah and Tenten sucks
8okay wth?
how the heck is tenten useless? how is lee dorki? i dunn get how you can even write those things, seriously.
but yeah WHERE THE HELL did tenten’s scroll come from? how could they actually beaet the clones if the gap was huge? like seriously kishimoto… alcohol isn’t the answer.
but yeah, you have no right to call them useless since its not even your show, you can yell in your house, but posting online is just crossing the line.
9Jerks Tenten’s best idiots and watch the freaking episode in stead JERKS
10Kay I agree that whole episode was stupid and the way they beat the clones was also stupid and lets get stronger then yesterday crap was a load of bull. Also where the freak did the freaking scroll come from and why the hell didn’t tenten two have it?!? Ugh so confusing!! But I do have to say I love tenten! She’s awesome even though I think they don’t have her fight enough she has her uses like lostinlalaland said she picks up on things others miss and she is a master at almost all ninja weapons. Sure sometimes she can be snotty and rude like when she made that whole speech about how weak people make her sick and they should die but she’s one of the most useful female ninjas out there a crap load better than ino and sakura.
11LOL, I totally agree with you on everything ( yeah what’s up w/ Deidara hands? ) except Tenten’s not that useless, sortof, I mean if an ordinary ninja were to stab PersonA with a kunai and Tenten were to do the turn-people-to-pincushion-no-jutsu on PersonB, PersonA would be heavily wounded and PersonB willget a few cuts (three tailed turtle arc). I guess the Naruto-verse is just weird like that.
12I totally agreed with you until you made fun of deidara YOU CROSS THE LINE BUDDY
13It was a boring episode, I agree..
14But TenTen isn’t ever so useless as you are saying
Sakura is not useless she is a medical nina. she can freakin heal people since when is that useless? TenTen is not really useless she is just boring…oh and that episode was really boring.
15youneed to lay off not even your show.TenTen isnt useless so just lay off quiet being jealous cause you didnt com up with the show.
16Shut up dude above me she is usless and how could she (or he never know) come up with it when Misashi started making it before it even was published and plus who would think of that out of no were. So stop beind a duch Bag man
17you are very snob .i do think that this episode was meaningless but i keep watching naruto because of the general picture.so i dont care about an episode!you know if you dont like it stop complaining for every single thing and stop watching it.anyway iit is a series with 300+ episodes they cant be all perfect so either understand it and keep your opinion about each episode PRIVATE or quit watching it!
18lol
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