User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 337 : R.I.P Fairy Tail/@comment-58.110.101.215-20130629084006

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i can see your disappointment in this chapter, but i can also see the light in it as well (excusing the obvious nod to Rogue stealing 'light' from Sting)

this chapter showed just how inferior Natsu and the other dragon slayers are compared to actual dragons... and Acnologia is stronger again!

Future Rogue may have controlled some dragons with some magic, but he hadn't beaten them either. one year after the grand magic games, without the gate opening, would have Rague not having really trained much, and then Froyo dies and he goes batshit, gaining his second Dragon Slayer tech and working out a way to control dragons. there's no evidence, aside from his killing of Sting, that Rogue is actually all that powerful

Natsu won by eating actual dragon flames, and knocked Rogue through what was considered an unbreakable gate - would have friggin hurt.

sure, Mashima didn't handle this arc all that well, but Mavis' comment about none of the Dragon Slayers being strong enough is a really scary thought. the final battle is with Acnologia, Rogue came back to control dragons in the present so he could stop Acnologia... meaning that Acnologia, at the very least, is strong enough to fend off SEVEN DRAGONS - and Seven Dragon Slayers can't beat Seven Dragons? Dear god is everyone screwed right now

the door has now been opened up to try and prevent Rogue going, well, rogue, in about a year's time, so that means that this arc has built into a huge power upgrade for the Dragon Slayers - and a lot of the other mages, as a result of not being able to land a hit on a Dragon are gonna wanna be stronger. even within FairyTail, with four Dragon Slayers, Gray, Erza, Elfman, Lisanna and everyone else is gonna wanna get as strong as possible so that they don't get in the way

this arc may now have been executed well, but it DOES lend itself to some great follow up material... and the knowledge that Acnologia is stronger than the dragons who just showed up is gonna light a HUGE fire under everyone's asses