User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 258: Tartaros arc: The Fire Dragon's Iron Fist, Review/@comment-24039234-20151107122842

I still think that the dragons were important enough (and foreshadowed enough - since the beginning, basically...) to receive their own arc as a resolution. But, aside from that, this episode turned out just great; I loved how well they captured the great interaction between Igneel and Natsu. :)

These sudden changes of animation quality between episodes always reminds me that however we tend to berate them after a not-so-well handled episode, animators are professionals and can produce some awesome stuff if they have the time and resources to do it. It feels good to do a good job, so I believe they would want to do it like this everytime, if they could; however the industry and profits dictate. I can't imagine how it would feel to be an artist, to be wanting to do animation as well as possible, then somebody comes and says that okay chump, now this week you're going to do some mediocre hackjob since we have to save on costs. But, well, that's life, I fully understand why things work like they do, so all I wanted to say with this kinda depressing paragraph that: cheers for every animator out there, I'm happy these guys exist! ^_^

Where to go next with the anime? FT0 would be nice. Somebody else in the comments mentioned some episodic filler stuff for characters (or character groups) doing the timeskip; I think that's a neat idea if they handle it seriously, so +1 to that. Or if not these, then a break. What I absolutely don't want to see, is some absolutely off-canon filler sh*t again, like the KotSS and ECS arcs. But most probably this will happen. Oh well, Avatar felt like filler anyway.