User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 540: Balance, Review/@comment-5894890-20170618020909/@comment-7418318-20170618072517

Well... I consider the DS being trapped in crystal and then breaking out because they heard the voices of their friends to be dwaddling and wasting time. It really served no purpose at all for the narritive other than hammering in the fact that friendship trumps everything... and does so in a very annoying way. It certainly didn't get to build any tension either, since it was resolved in a couple of pages and was blindingly obvious that it wouldn't last until the end of the chapter.

For me it matters little if the wasting of time takes the form of stupid commentary or completely unnecessary scenes like this one. A waste is a waste.