User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 327: My Part Too, Review and Commentary/@comment-5840892-20130412142938

Well....

Who didn't see this coming?

As for future Rouge; I'm starting to think he is under Zeref's Influence. NOT POSSESSED; just influenced. Or it could have something to do with Acnalogia; I won't deny that. But I feel that Zeref is involved somehow...

And I will say this as well; I am not a big Lucy fan; I have not really said so before; but had I been asked I wouldn't have denied it. But that being said and noted; it was cool how Lucy was the only one who didn't have their head up their freaking ass. SHE ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING COOL. Instead of just being eye-candy or an emotional catalyst (like in the past); she did something smart; useful; and freaking awesome. So I give Mashima props for using Lucy for something other than a fan-service based gag character. (Which he does at least 7 times out of 10.)

But a very good point was raised this chapter: Why didn't anyone BUT Lucy; think to research the Eclipse Door a little more? I mean; at the very least I would expect the really hot (and seemingly smart) Princess (can't remember her name to save my life) to do so. (Then again; who said most Princess didn't just wait around for some shit to happen and then get rescued by a pair of overweight Italian Plumbers?)