User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 181: Fairy Tail vs. Executioners, Review./@comment-5598380-20140511094113/@comment-7418318-20140511101144

I agree that extending the fights and making the Garou Knights seem more of serious threat is a good thing, but at the same time I think they might have done it a better than in this episode.

First the drawn out commenting in between the fights break up the momentum. Particularly Mavis and Asuka and the constant Juvia scenes in the last ep. Those scenes could have been done a lot shorter and still kept all their impact.

And the whole plum thing also wasn't to my liking. Apart from not finding it funny and the logic fails I complained about elsewhere, it makes me wonder what the Garou Knights are supposed to be.

On one side they are made to appear more dangerous and as a serious threat, but on the other hand they perform comedy? Sure trickling in a little humor can enhance the impact of a shocking or saddening scene coming directly afterwards, but of it's too much, it undermines the image of a serious and dangerous opponent and in extreme cases makes the enemy look like a bad joke. While the plum scene didn't go that far, I still think it degraded the danger projected by Cosmos up to this point.

With Uosuke the mix of humor and despair (well... not quite despair, but I can't seem to find the fitting word right now) was done just right. Just a little bit of humor and then get serious. And the teamfight Wendy+Natsu against Cosmos+Kamika in the previous episode was just great.