User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail Episode 205: Beacon of Rebellion, Review./@comment-4449950-20141025042918/@comment-2125188-20141025132016

You make some good points and I know where you're coming from but who's to say some characters won't have their moments and get character development in throughout the arc. Yes, we all know how the arc is going end and everything, but as with all fillers we know everything's gonna be back to normal at the end.

Important characters we don't know much about and things that happened but we don't know what happened will eventually be revealed and touched on later down the line in the manga. Fairy Tail Zero is still only 4 chapters in, and we can wait until that's finished before adapting into the anime.

I think they missed the boat on the light novels. Not too many people care about them and they would have to be flashbacks (which would be annoying).

At least they're putting effort into this filler arc, and to be honest it's actually a very interesting and somewhat entertaining filler. It's not gonna be perfect (like all fillers) but it's not like this is some boring cringe-worthy filler.

At the end of the day everything has to go through Hiro Mashima, and maybe they did want to focus on other important characters and events, but he said no, because he's saving that stuff for later down the line in the manga.

The fact that Hiro is involved in this filler at all is good enough for me.