User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 387: Tartarus Arc, Part 4: Father and Son, Review and Commentary/@comment-24367018-20140606124105

Thoughts on the chapter: it was enjoyable, it wasn't as epic as the previous four chapters, however it makes sense for Mashima to tone down the level off epicness. The last few chapters were the build up and climax to Part 3, you can't exactly start off a new part on the same high, you need a chance to catch your breath before it starts to build up again. If anything Mashima seems to be treating this like a Heroin high without the low.

As for the contents, well it makes sense to seperate Gray and Silver straight away. I quite like some of the theories for this; the prime one seaming to be that Silver is a double agent and is trying to tell Gray that, my theory though isn't quite as heroic. Silver was aware that Natsu was the one who thawed out the Giant's village. So he must be somewhat aware that Gray managed to manipulate his ice to beat Doriate (be honest who actually remembered his name?), so it's obviously not a good idea for an Demon Slayer to fight with his comrades when his opponent is able to manipulate it against them. Logically you move yourself and your opponent away from your comrades. That's my take on it.

However; as seems to be the usual case with FT one of the villains will become a good guy, we've seen it every time and it's probably Silver's turn this Arc.

Now to Happy. Franmalth's back!! Oh... good... Couldn't he have stayed dead instead of doing a Tempest and just refuse to die? Oh well, it is what it is.

FACE, seems to be a bit of a double-edged sword in terms of the plot. To me it kind of seems as though Mashima just under-mined the entirety of Wendy's achievement and demise of Ezel, if he is indeed gone (unlike Franmalth... -.-). 20 or 2000, great going to both translators for confusing everyone with this. 2000 makes more sense to cover an entire continent from a strategic and tactical point of view. From a story perspective it seems a bit much and unrealistic for just FT to defeat. So hopefully the other legit guilds will finally take notice and do something. Or more unlikely though is the use of CS and O6. Remember Mystogan, the Edolas equivalent of Jellal, took out every single off-branch of Phantom Lord. I reckon between Jellal, Meredy and O6; most of those troll-FACEs are as good as gone.

And to top it all of Mard Quee-sorry Geer stayed stoned for all of what? 20 pages, eh que sera sera.

Sorry for the big ass comment but those are my thoughts on the matter. Well done to anyone who reads all of it :)