User blog comment:B214/Chapter 497: The Winter Mage/@comment-5894890-20160808183004

Well it went exactly as most us predicted... all we can do now is hope Gray vs Invel turns out interesting/ unexpected. P.S. If Neinhart is smart as he says he is, he will target Natsu, Lucy, and Juvia, instead of Gray (or at least do it simultaneously). Also, it's so stupid how easily they got frozen, if Gray, aka convenient writing wasn't there, Natsu and the rest would have been finished so easily. Now, Eileen telling Neinhart to kill Erza was rather surprising... I guess I'm interested in Erza again (considering she hasn't really been a let down this arc, for me anyways). As for Gildarts, I don't care about him anymore. His OPness of smashing through 'God' Serena was too much for me lol. I see a disaster incoming, Mashima is setting up too many fights at once again. Which usually turns out to be rushed, badly planned, and no-tactic fights. In which we get a scene of the protagonists beating the antagonists all at the same time lol. (FT vs Historias, FT in the Grand magic games, FT vs Executioners, and so on).