User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 395: Tartarus Arc - Part 5: Extreme Pain, Review./@comment-5072337-20140802221822/@comment-5072337-20140803143903

@NoNickNeeded     Well, if you must know, one of the biggest things I hated about the Tartarus arc was how it landed on Fairy Tail's doorstep. I'm still smarting for the following reasons: (1) I HATE seeing characters who start out being bad but later mend their ways get punished for fighting on the side of the good guys - which leads me to (2) I'm absolutely certain that Mashima inflicted that on Laxus and his team for no reason at all except "because the combo of being powerful and fighting on Fairy Tail's side makes the lot of them a threat to the overall drama". And finally, (3) after Laxus pulls off two major "crowning moments of awesome" in the GMG arena - not even counting the whole fight between all the dragon slayers and Future Rogue's dragons - it just seems wrong somehow for any evil force (short of Zeref himself) to be capable of laying a finger on Laxus, let alone striking him down in a way that, according to Porlyusica's dire diagnosis, could result in permanent damage.

And don't even get me started on making Lucy sacrifice a gold zodiac Spirit Key, even the one that summons the least cooperative Spirit...