User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail Episode 198: The Golden Grasslands, Review./@comment-4449950-20140906051040

Could have been an amazing ep, but it was just dragged down SO much by all of the re-used clips throughout. The first 5 minutes just repeating from the last episode, the bad future shown YET AGAIN FOR THE FIFTIETH TIME for no reason as far as I could tell and the Celestial attack being reused thrice with the same clips from the gate closure for the first attempt. That was all such a big no-no for me, and the entire episode suffered as a result.

The rest was nice though, but I do have to agree with B214 below. In the manga is seemed that Natsu and Atlas pushed both FRogue and Motherglare into the gate, but here in the ep it seemed like Natsu rocketed FRogue off of the dragons and then somehow Motherglare fell too? Not sure, but I think it was weird.

DAT JERZA SMILE THOUGH!! So cute X3 I loved it :D

And the golden plains was done extremely well :) I thought the music and animation was perfect for that scene, so kudos to the team for that ending part. Plus, the animation in general was just great for this ep, and I agree, the next ep looks good too. It must have a lot of filler though, because looking at the upcoming titles for the eps, we have a whole episode dedicated to the ball chapter. I hope it doesn't get too silly, but we shall see I guess~