User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 241: Tartaros arc: Devil Reincarnation, Review/@comment-24.200.220.241-20150712055421/@comment-25111584-20150713113927

People have already replied, just gonna join the wagon. /o/


 * 1) Natsu was healed by Wendy and he also replenishes energy by eating fire, or the explosions here. He also was not getting beaten back before, the self-explosion thing was keeping him back. He negated that. And he's just much more powerful than Wendy or Lucy for them to shine in a battle alongside him. :/
 * 2) He's sense have always been that good. ToH arc is an example. And he's an idiot, so he didn't think of contacting his friends. And you'll realize why Silver let Happy go as the plot progresses. And the barrel thing is extremely common, complaining about it is like asking why FT girls have such impossible bosoms. >.>
 * 3) Hostages are always a good idea. Not Mashima's fault if you happen to disagree.
 * 4) Because Mashima doesn't want to kill Jellal. Killing him would bring him the same treatment Sir Arthur got when he killed off Holmes. :P
 * 5) Lacrima embedded in an item can give it power without the user needing to do anything. All Edolas items work like that. I don't see the problem with the Heat Blade. And as to how it came there ... I'm sure you can have a few theories at the end of the arc. ;)
 * 6) Sho had no problem in ToH arc when trapped a number of people in the cards. And it's not as if the trapped person's Magic Power affects it either as Erza was trapped too. Breaking out is a different thing. :P The bomb was pretty minor though, I have to admit.
 * 7) Jellal could have had a force field to keep all intruders out of the Tower of Heaven. OS could have captured a former Council member other than a body they found and needed a Sky Dragon Slayer to revive it. Hades could have retreated and tried to capture Zeref when no FT members were present. F. Rogue could have stayed safely out of sight, making two Dragons protect the Eclise Gate. None of this happened. Just like Tartaros doesn't have any weapons on the underside of Cube. Things happening in the protag's favour is a fault with all of Mashima's arcs, not just Tartaros. And they already had their own members on Undercube to have FT members fall to their deaths.
 * 8) Natsu and Lisanna freed her. That is obvious.
 * 9) Mashima wanted to show off Erza's new armour. And Erza is just that strong. She is durable enough to take on about half the Thunder Palace on her own. Piercing through an island is not unbelievable. That's what that armour is for. Just like Virgo's Magic would have made it a cinch for her to create a similar hole.

Of all the complaints, I'd agree only with the bomb being and Cube's defense systems being underwhelming. And even the latter is not that much of a failure as such things have happened in almost every arc.