He's used Kagebunshin, what, six times now? I should think they'd all realize that it's not working... I don't remember that part from the manga.Also; something's been bothering me since I first got into Naruto. Sakura is extremely useless in the beginning, yes? So why does she get so much screentime? It would all go faster if they didn't mention her so much...Yeah, I'm kind of biased against her. XD

Wow, great eps, brings me back to the good old days when Sasuke wasn't quite teh jerk he is today.But man, I forgot how much of a useless filler-character Sakura was back then.

Remember, this based entirely off of a manga. But, it is very acurate to it. The manga, and frankly most anime series, moves slowly. If you are having a lot of trouble getting through it, I suggest watching the dubbed version (so you don't have to sit glued to the screne) or to read the manga.
Protip: when reading the manga, i noticed it was also repetitive and drawn out, but I adjusted my reading speed to the rate of the action, and it actually began to move quite well. Please don't give up on Naruto, it really is a well done manga/anime series. Near the end (in the Shippuden series more) you can tell how intricatly and in-depth the story is actually written.

I've decided naruto is awfull, but still willing to watch because i have nothing better to do. Also, maybe it will actually pick up later on. All they do is talk, it's completely unreal and just doesn't make sense. For every tiny move that takes about 20 seconds to do, they spend 6 minutes explaining the "story" behind it, oh yea they also have that cheesy overdone chuckle/laugh when the opponent is "shocked" and they do it A LOT. what kind of fight is it where 90% of it is spent talking? seriously darn it it's like they have a casual conversation during each fight. The recap in each episode takes WAY TOO LONG, an example of a good one is avatar:the last airbender, they just take about 20 seconds and cover the crucial points to the story. This spends 5-10 minutes and most of it is not necessary. I'm already getting tired of jutsu which i imagine is the entire show. They start doing the jutsu, then the opponent is like "What is this....?" or "This is...." or "No way?!" or something very similar, then there is about 3 minutes of one person thinking about what is going to happen. Then something shocking to the characters (the viewers don't give a flying _BLANK_ about) happens and there is that stupid laugh and they spend ANOTHER 3 minutes explaining/thinking about it. The flashbacks are also destroying each episode. Is this show only going by a manga? because if it's not the writers are garbage at their jobs. If the manga isn't keeping up then just postpone the episode so they actually get content to work with. To anyone that likes this episode, you simply have no desire for progress.

This is so ridiculous... they've been fighting for like 4 episodes! It's getting annoying because it's starting to feel like filler episodes.