User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 181: Fairy Tail vs. Executioners, Review./@comment-4449950-20140510025646

Liked it, but there were issues.

It's weird... I didn't find the additions to be that bad (lol Wendy and dried plums never gets old for me) and they were appropriate in my opinion - like that addition of Milianna. Gosh, that was a really good idea. I mean, the Minerva/Mils thing came out of nowhere in the manga, so I think it was smart that they took some time to prep that :)

However, what dragged the episode down was the lines and scene pacing. It was just... slow. Lots of pauses in dialogue and dragged out sentences. Lots of standing around watching so that seconds could pass. One thing I like about FT fights is that there's no fucking around: people fight until one of them falls. Here, their just losing that fast pace by slowing everything down, and that's what's making the eps not as exciting imo.

So, great filler, bad pacing. Animation was pretty great all the way through, so overall a good episode ^__^