New watcher (Naruto), all those filler episodes at the end (season 5?) is a very questionable choice.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind small filler episodes between arcs, I liked the protagonism to side-character and some of the development felt good and genuine (like most about Hinata) but God! who thought it was a good idea to end that season, that was the bridge to Shippuden, with around 80 filler episodes in a row?? I felt that I was in a loop!

It paid off tho! all those mid episodes made me want to watch Shippuden even more, I started it (5 episodes so far) and I'm loving it, the difference of quality compared to those filler is huge, finally good villains again, character development, real stakes and the animation so far is pretty good, I guess I can thanks the filler episodes for that, gave them time to polish everything.

Now I was smarter and spoiled myself the amount of filler, I know Shippuden have 500 episodes and like 200 filler, I just hope it's more balanced and they don't give me another 80 fillers in a row...