User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 256: Tartaros arc: The Final Duels, Review/@comment-7418318-20151024100945

I'm still not happy about Laxus being there in the first place, but it was alright mostly, but with LOTS of nitpicks and minor annoyances.

I wonder why Yajima was dressed in his 8Isles getup... later we saw him lying in bed in a flashback and we see enough of him to know for sure he wasn't wearing that in bed. So why was he all re-dressed, while Bickslow and Freed were left half-naked? And if they had to dress him, why not a hospital gown or something similar, instead of his normal clothes?... which also leads me to wonder why Laxus had his mantle along, come to think of it. He shouldn't have had that on in bed either.

While the battle wasn't too bad, I am disappointed with "Lighting Dragon's Iron Fist". He has so many variations of punching people with lighting-enhanced fists already. Did he really need yet another variation and a natsu-copy to boot? *sigh*

Somehow I found it interesting how Gajeel openly talked about having a conscious. He had that for quite some time now, but for him to admit it is new.

I disliked the whole Tempester healing stuff. So now the Demons are supposed to be linked and constantly powered by Mard Geer? And we only "learn" of this now and only in the anime? I call bullshit.

Another thing I was a bit annoyed the naming of Laxus final attack. They give a shitty new name to almost every punch he makes and yet they call an attack like that just like a regular roar? (also nice mess-up in the subs, they had it as "Roar of the Fire Dragon" ^^).

Good to see that even Laxus had to use some trap here, isntead of just overpowering the Demon head-on like usual. Kudos to the writers for that.

Except... I can't help but wonder why Tempester didn't just jump. With the roar being conducted by the water on the ground, he could have easily avoided the attack entirely by jumping, or flitting around inside a tornado without touching the floor like he did during the fight.

I liked how Erza just threw away Franshroom like a piece of trash not worthy of her attention. ^^

Sayla was really cute in this episode for some reason. I almost started rooting for her and Kyouka when they held hands.

I love how Kyouka tries to mess with Erza's mind and play her fears. Too bad it was only such a short moment. I like it when villains/antagonists do that.

So in sum it while it could have been a lot better, it was still a nice episode. And compared to other filler material it was practically great.