Worth watching for the lulz? Quick Sailor Mercury, take off your clothes to defeat this villain!
Dave: Last night I sat bolt upright in bed when I realised we never delve into the deep and complicated feelings of Akamaru.
Filler writer 1: Canine angst, the fans'll be screaming for it.
Dave: What motivates him? How can we tear him apart? Break him down to his core values?
Filler writer 3: Dogs track, right? How about we introduce an animal character with a better sense of smell?
Dave: Done! Ok, give me an animal.
Filler writer 2: How about [Mumble mumble]
Filler writer 3: For god's sake.
Dave: What is it, Number 2?
Filler writer 2: How about an insect that looks like a helmet beetle, because when the sunlight catches its back, that perfect sparkle of black infused with a hint of blue matches Dave's hair-
Dave: Beetle, got it. Team?
Filler writer 1: 10. No, 8.
Dave: Ok, Team 8 it is. Come on now, ten minutes 'til lunch, ten minutes in which to plot something deep and meaningful for Tonton.
Filler writer 3: Akamaru.
Dave: Whatever.
Filler writer 1: Or we could just cover Hinata in honey and have her kind of struggling in it for a few episodes.
Dave: I like it! Good work team, now let's go have Mexican.
For reasons known only to Dave, this episode was included as a two part special with the former, so there was the fighty end of an arc and then the awkward beginning of another. Good grief, there's actually some continuation as Team 8 visit Kurenai in the hospital after her prison scrap. Shino and Kiba are teasing Hinata about how she fainted at the sight of Naruto. She steps into the room, only for the much iconed not-quite-a-Spiderman-kiss-moment to occur. I love how she simply doesn't faint, but screams and headbutts him – I like to think the Hyuuga clan instilled her with anti-rape training. She passes out and when she comes to, Naruto is having a big bitch at Tsunade as to why he can't go off and find Sasuke. Someone give the boy a script.
Hinata wants to help him, so Shino comes up with the idea of bugs. Which makes more sense than, say, Ino suggesting it. They come up with the plan to find a Special Bug that, if exposed to Sasuke's scent when the egg hatches, will hunt him down and hopefully lay some bug vengeance on him because that would be interesting to watch. Luckily for everyone, despite it being a rare bug, it is the current breeding and hatching season. Go Team Jackets and Naruto, go!
Hinata is a girl and therefore must follow the theme that she feels like she gets in her team's way and holds them back. While it's true she’s not as strong as her teammates, at the same time you don't see Chouji with a storyline about him feeling despondent. Unfortunately you do see a storyline about him and cooking ninja, but that's a long way off. Elsewhere, Sakura has progressed from fish to bunnies and Tsunade asks her why she didn't go too. She mentally responds that, although it's difficult, she knows she has to sit this one out and continue in her training to get better, which would sound a lot more impressive if it wasn't simply a plot reasoning that this is Hinata’s turn to feel useless since Sakura just had hers.
And we come to the famous porn scene. Hinata gets up in the middle of the night to train, using water to help her movements, fine I guess that makes sense, which she must do naked, which makes...less sense.
Naruto of course doesn't recognise her despite it being painfully obvious it's Hinata and thousands of teenage boys cry out why does the scene end there they were almost finished. More male fanservice as Naruto eats some bad fruit and gets the shits, because poo is always hilarious.
[After a successful night of training.]
Hinata: I think I'm starting to get it! If I carry on like this, improving little by little in secret, then maybe I really can master this new jutsu and make Naruto-kun notice me!
[There's a sudden gust of wind and the sound of blades as Neji lands in a Hyuuga helicopter to point a finger squarely in his cousin's face.]
Neji: HINATA! STOP GAINING CONFIDENCE!
Hinata: Y-Yes, nii-san...
Neji: God it's good to be Neji.
Team members: Naruto, Kiba, Shino and Hinata
Number of kage bunshin no jutsus: 0!
Number of rasengans: 0!
Next week: The Bee Clan spent 10 days looking for this bug. Naruto and co only take 20 mins, but it'll sure feel like 10 days!
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