User blog comment:Kiraofthesky/Anime filler/@comment-112.198.83.189-20150911104728/@comment-96.255.231.61-20150912075800

You may disagree with him, but he does have something of a point. We've had two long filler arcs, and both of them starred Lucy. The KOTSS arc centered around the artifact supposedly sent to her by her father, delivered by her purported cousin, that transitioned into being about an ancient weapon sealed by a CS Wizard, so now the villains need to wipe out a bunch of CS wizards to completely unseal it, and kidnap Lucy a CS Wizard to make it work (despite one of the villains being a CS Wizard herself), so the cast has to save Lucy from them. The Eclipse arc of course was about Lucy and Yukino's Celestial Spirits radically change and go nuts, as does the CS King, so now the cast has to help Lucy (and Yukino) save her spirits, and the CS King.

So it'd be nice to get a filler arc that didn't center on Lucy and have the plot revolve around her. The short Daphne filler arc was bad, but that was mainly because of a villain with an annoying verbal tick, and Gray acting extremely out of character, as well as repeatedly hitting himself in the face with the idiot stick. The basic premise of it on the other hand - a villain who'd see a dragon flying in the skies once, was ruthless mocked for it, so she decided to make her own dragon and "show them all" and needed a dragon slayer to make it work - wasn't all that bad. It'd be nice to get more of the first part of that, villains with motives that have essentially nothing to do with Fairy Tail. Unfortunately they went for more of the second part, the "needs a member of Fairy Tail for something", and both times made that member Lucy.