User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 368: The Third Seal, Predictions./@comment-4829046-20140123165511/@comment-7418318-20140123223304

The first episode had some merit, but the 2nd one was completely superfluous. They just took flashbacks that were already shown in earlier episodes and extended them. But any meaningful content was already known either from Jiraya's backstory or from the flashbacks when Naruto confronted Nagato, except for two shots of a few seconds each in which Obito and Zetsu commented on what they saw, but didn't intervene.

The entire two episodes could have been told in 10 minutes for all the content they contained. Just another case of the Naruto anime massively overextending everything.

I bet the whole "I can't explain right now, since we have no time" that Gaara did in the last chapter will be replaced with a very detailed and lenghly expenation once it get's animated -_-