User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 454: Flying Dragon Squad and Osprey Squad, Review./@comment-24546844-20150928201706/@comment-24546844-20150928211515

Okay, maybe "uneventful" isn't the best word here, but as I see, in this chapter we had:
 * 0) Ajeels's offensive. As I see this was a leftover from last chapter so I don't think it counts.
 * 1) Freeds runes: this makes one even thought it was just a couple of panels.
 * 2) FT's counter-attack: Flying Dragons and Osprey taking down most of the fleet is the oposite of Freed's one, it had more panels but could be counted as one single action.
 * 3) DS being motion sick and Erza stepping in: fight set up, even though the DS part could be avoided and the result would be the same.

This makes it three "events". If not for the fact that two of them involved minor characters, which is good, and the last one was more of a gag + fight setup than anything. The impact they had were minor when we take in account that the biggest threat here is Ajeel and not the ships (which we were expecting to be taken down) and he haven't made his move yet. I don't know if this is making much sense but the impact of the "events" is more important than the number of those. It's like Naruto chapter 633 where the Konoha 11 fight the Juubi clones. There is a fight for each of them but basically just a single event.

Also, just because a chapter is full of talkink it doesn't mean it is a bad chapter. Just like the event things it's the content of the talk that matters, it can be wasted in chit chat and lame jokes or it can be used to drop lots of relevant information.