The recap was bad but it was still awesome

A recap episode? was that seriously necessary? Only 14 episodes in and i've already found several anime cliche's and naruto is already making recycling a habit. I'm not sure if i am going to enjoy the show if this kind of bullsh...continues. So far i have no idea why Naruto was a hit anime in my high school days, there was so much better at the time. I will still give this a chance....there must have been SOMETHING that made this show so popular. Also, there seem to be many flaws to these fights, they just don't add up very well. Sasuke was clever enough to touch the bell earlier in the series but he didn't take the chance to run out of those mirrors when naruto made his entrance? This episode presented nothing new that was crucial to the story. If i had to wait 7 days back then i would have been ticked off to see this garbage of an episode.

Unless you really haven't been paying attention, you can skip to 9 minutes in, I'm guessing this was after a break or something as up to that it's all recap