User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 373: Let Live Or Let Die, Predictions./@comment-7418318-20140227145252/@comment-7418318-20140227161227

Yes and no. Back in the chuunin exam, it was the very first look from Orochimaru that froze Sasuke and Sakura and once he overcame this initial fear, Sasuke was able to move again. Same with the ninja that attacked Naruto on the mission to the bridge. His first encoutnter froze him and then he was fine.

If Kakashi had frozen up at the very beginning of the fight, or after his mask got cut, I'd be fine with it, but like this it looks like a half-assed solutaion, because they couldn't bring themselves to show Kakashi getting defeated.

Considering the kind of stuff we've seen Orochimaru pull, it's rather odd that he'd be so seriously injured by a single paper bomb in the fist place. We've seen far weaker shinobi (like Sakura for example in her Sasori fight) take an explosive tag point blank and come out with a few scratches at most.