User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 429 & 430: Code Blue & Purification Ritual, Review and Commentary/@comment-4933386-20150420123137/@comment-7418318-20150422204636

It's just as ShinShinTo said. I AM curious and excited for knowing all the Star Dresses Lucy can use, BUT only if they are actually used and not just shown off.

I guess my feelings can be summed up pretty well in a single term: Chekhov's Gun.

While I don't fully agree with the wording given by Chekhov, I agree with the principle.

To go into more detail "Chekhov's Gun" says that if you show a gun it needs to be fired at some point or it's just cluttering up the story needlessly. I don't fully agree with this, since I think that the gun can also be used in other way, like a blunt instrument to hit someone with for example. But I absolutely agree that the gun needs to serve some purpose to have a justification for being there in the first place.

Unfortunately two out of the three Star Dresses we've seen so far were lacking in the pupose department. I have no problem with fanservice in and of itself, but using Star Dresses mostly as fanservice provider with little or no meaning to the story just feels like a let-down to me.