User blog comment:Ncduru/Top 5 Favorite Arcs/@comment-25324252-20150906171641/@comment-1454981-20150906204448

Tartaros had it's moments. Celestial Spirit King vs. Mard Greer, Acnologia vs. Igneel, the initial encounter between Gray and Silver. Some good stuff there. Also, love the foreshadowing of a future climactic battle between Natsu and Gray after the defeat of Greer.

What killed the arc for me was the formality of it. The beginning of the arc had a great feel to it. Jackal murdering the Magic Council? Alright, now we're getting hardcore. Then, the instant transition from "We declare war on Tartaros" to a full scale war was like counting from 1 to 3. No build up. Then, with the war in full swing, arbitrary moments like the dragons showing up, the twin dragon slayers helping out (and fighting their former master, wtf?), jellal vs. the former oracion seis(as cool as it may have been),etc. All pretty cool, yet very erratic. Also, Gray's foreshadowed battle against Silver was totally ruined. The plot of Silver being Deliora in control of his fathers body was PERFECT, aaand Mashima ruins it. Alright, I got over it, but easily the worst and perfect example of the majority of Fairy Tail's criticism came in the form of Erza's dumbfounding defeat of Kyoka. All of her senses were reduced to nil besides her sense of pain which was heightened and yet she wins anyway against a far superior opponent through her self-belief and convictions...man, you just can't make this stuff up. Oh well, another arc with inceptive potential, reduced to disheartening flop.