User blog comment:FeaturedMe/Feat's Anime Review - Episode 150/@comment-76.78.30.231-20120929072148

I have to admit that I thought the Cobra Kinana scene was too short. It was sweet and nice, but short.

Anyway, to review this filler arc as a whole. To start the concept of the arc was pretty sweet. I always imagined what the Earth Land version of the Edolas Knights were like. I also liked how it connected to lucy's father, who was never mentioned again in the manga. Using a new Oracion Seis was also good and they matured believably in seven years, honing their skills and actually possess powers that they used other forms of magic to achieve seven years ago. Also liked the role Romeo played here as I feel he was put aside in the manga so quickly. So in other words, great concept all around. However, that does not make for great execution. To put it bluntly, the pacing was a trainwreck. Either too much happened or too little. The first half could have easily been half as big and while many of the funny parts were genuinely laugh out loud (Everyone pretending to be Lucy), there were too many funny moments and quite frankly when ypu have too many funny moments there are bound to be misses. (I'm lokking at you Jiggle Butt Gang) It didn't help that Erza was acting like a freaking ten year old with her picnics and long winded speeches. A-1 is definitely not getting who most of these characters are. Now for the second half and the reapearence of the Oracion Seis, things got much more on track. granted the first few episodes still think that adding comedy every few seconds makes for great television, (We get it Dan, you are straight. You don't need to proclaim it to every girl you freaking meet) but things were back on track and charcters were acting like thereselves again. The Doranbolt story was nice, but quite frankly didn't need to happen. All Lahar needed to say was Fairy Tail alive and alls well that ends well. As for Lucy's reaction to Michelle's/Imitatia's true form, I thought it was fine. As Romeo says in episode 149, Lucy's parents are dead and she has no really close relatives, so when she meets Michelle she is overjoyed that she still has real family. If my family was all dead and I was betrayed by a close relative I would have trouble believing it too. And as Lucy says in the same episode, she had a hunch who Michelle really is. So all of you people who can't seem to look past the surface of things can all feel like uncaring bastards now. As for the plot twists. First Michelle. Kudos to the person who figured out that Michelle was a doll. I would have never figured that out and I am sure the vast majority of you (Whether you care too admit it or not) would not have come too the same conclusion with out it. I also thought that theory might have been wrong when she was revealed to be part of Oracion Seis, but my fears were soon assuaged. That twist was decent. Second Klodoa. The fact that Jackpot might be Klodoa just popped into my head (Don't ask where it came from) so while I knew from the start, it was still a very well done plot twist. Finally Zero/Lapointe. They made it painfully obvious that Lapointe was Zero when he said his phrase "The maggots are swarming" (Didn't help when Midnight said it in the same freaking episode), so I was actually quite surprised when he was revealed to be a doll of Zero. Still, it was too obvious for its own good, so it was a mediocre plot twist. Regardless of its many flaws though, it definitelly got better in time and was much better then most filler nowadays. (Naruto seems to think adventures on a boat make for a good ARC and Bleach seems to think putting episodic filler episodes in between its final arc made it look good becuase quite frankly the world's most stupidest person could see that it was not. It also end while tying everything in a nice littel bow. (I was concerned whe there was only three episodes left, but in some miracle my fear was unfounded)

All in all, Fairy Tail's first forray into a REAL filler arc had an execllent concept that was marred by terrible execution, but it picked itself up, slapped itself, relized it had a story to tell and kept going to give it a B- (But a 80/100 B-, not a 84/100 B-)

Also did I forget to mention the Jiggel Butt Gnag is the bane of all existence an should never allow their big fat butts to see the light of day again. Oh, I did?! Well I'm going to see it again becuase I can!