The problem: SHIPPUUDEN had all these amazing plots lined up from its predecessor, regular Naruto (which they could have exploited until the end of time, or in anime-time at LEAST another 500 episodes!):
- Naruto's mysterious past
- Naruto's dream of one day becomming hokage
- Naruto's need to someday pass his Chunin exam
- Naruto's struggle with Akatsuki
- Naruto's relationship with SASUKE!!! (tantalizing HINTS of character appearance are what keeps the audience glued to the TV screen, but when the character stops showing up altogether (presumably because he's become far too cool) it defeats the purpose of trying to make people anticpate his return! The audience just forgets about him and stops caring! GAH!)
But INSTEAD? Naruto is running around doing useless filler episodes about ninja who are (as far as I can tell) only powerful because of Kyuubi fart gas, or about characters who crawled out of some hole in the ground and then subsequently crawled back into it and died (a.k.a. Asuma Sarutobi).
The "most anticipated fight of the series" (the one between Sasuke and Naruto at Orochimaru's underground weird palace thingy) was VERY anticipated, but by no means did it live up to the hype. In fact, I wouldn't even call it a fight as much as I would call it a "witty" exchange of words that only confirmed things that we already knew (Sasuke's time to be possessed by Orochimaru is nearing, he is way more bad-ass than Naruto, etc.).
In closing, I give to you the exact episode where the magic left the series. #42, a.k.a "Seriously, are They for Real About Those ****ing Snakes?"
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