User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 337: The Golden Plains, Review and Commentary/@comment-77.195.192.48-20130628095305

Mashima trolled us again ( damn it's a habit ), but I think the serious things are at the door, I will not complain about the GMG arc, I read it again, and I think Mashima did a good job, even if some chapters wasn't okay. We can see now that arc was an introduction arc, nothing more, the dragon king festival ( the real one ) is at the door, the thing which make me think this is Meavis, why did she act like this ? Why did she say this ? Eclipse gate was a good idea, even if Mashima didn't explain it well : the bridge which link two periods, if you cut that bridge, the people who are in a future or past period will lose their means to be in another one, not bad.

We can think that the GMG arc is the X791 arc for the other guilds, they all think there were strong, but they realise they are weak, even Sabertooth who treat Lucy as a trash are as weak as her in front of a dragon.