User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 337: The Golden Plains, Review and Commentary/@comment-112.198.249.25-20130629134349/@comment-7418318-20130629135018

You really want a filler arc (single episodes wouldn't be enough to give the manga a sufficient headstart) to split an arc apart, like they did in Bleach?

I think that's about the worst thing they could have done.