User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 299: A Solitary Journey, Review./@comment-4449950-20120915041337

Okay~! Sorry ladies and gents, but I've been out at a movie night ^__^ Yay for a bunch of teens crammed into a living room watching 50's/60's musicals ;D

Anyways, this chapter was both good and bad... just like last weeks...

THE GOOD:
 * It was silent. I liked this. I don't why so many people are complaining... I think it was cool to have a silent chapter. Besides, imagine what kind of dull speech we would get if it wasn't silent =/ Personally, I think it would make the story worse because it would be even more dry and cliché.
 * Because it was silent it was released early :) My friends all decided to have a good old laugh at me when I told them I'd need to borrow a laptop halfway through our movie night to check the chapter. Luckily, I didn't have to do this anymore, and it was also a nice surprise to refresh my email inbox and see it there.
 * Gildarts. Well, there are a few other characters I would have preferred a filler about, but I'm glad we got to check in on him. He also suited the silence of the chapter perfectly... another character would have ruined it.

THE BAD:
 * No plot. It was dry and boring and went nowhere :(
 * It didn't contribute to the story at all... I mean, last weeks at least had Flare and the hooded chick to add a little something.
 * Length. I'm thinking for the lack of text, Mashima could have at least made the chapter longer. This would have made me like it more and opened him up to doing a much better story... but oh well.

So, overall a pretty meh chapter, but what saved it was the silence :)

But still, next week is 300!! XD Kya~! I'm excited. I think hope it will be supermegafoxyawesomehawt!