Tried skipping the fillers on a 6 episode binge and it actually worked better

I was always told you gotta watch every single episode to get the full story, but I got burnt out on Naruto Shippuden after 300 episodes. So for the last arc I just skipped the recap episodes and any filler I recognized from the wiki list. Finished the entire thing in 3 days and honestly I didn't miss a thing. Anyone else done this or am I crazy?

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simontorres1mo ago

300 episodes in and you couldn't tell when they were just stalling? That's way too much trust in a studio that clearly stretches scenes to hit episode counts. Naruto especially had whole arcs that were just flashbacks and pointless side stories from the manga that barely moved anything forward.

reed.eva1mo ago

Oh man, the flashback to the Wave arc alone where they kept repeating the Zabuza and Haku story three times. That's when I knew they were milking it. By episode 200 I was skipping whole chunks just to get to the actual plot. The filler episodes after the Sasuke Retrieval arc made me wanna throw my remote. It's like they forgot some of us actually read the manga and knew what was padding.