User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 409: Wedges of Black and White, Review and Commentary/@comment-1776824-20141117111442/@comment-1776824-20141117134535

@Raven I get that you feel it was cheap. I mean, Mashima has done this in the past as well, but for the first Jiemma example, he was completely blindsided, and this isn't really something he can dodge. I have no doubt that Jiemma is actually stronger than the two of them. I mean, before he was taken out like that, he waved his hands and gave the two some serious gashes. It's just as far as this went, I don't think Jiemma had any hype at all tbh. He was sort of there as a way to remove Sting and Rogue from the equation and to sort of amend the fuck-up that Minerva was turned into (there was quite a nice conversation on editors and their bullshit in chat today). He probably wasn't planned at all, hence his showing up out of nowhere, but nonetheless Sting and Rogue got closure for their past and they're out of the way to spotlight the two main males of the series. For being such a useless villain, non-hyped villain, I don't think the fight with Jiemma went very bad at all. Sting and Rogue just proved themselves to be faster, I think.