Personally I wasn't that bothered by this episode, I've read it in the manga and plan on re-watching Naruto so the flashbacks didn't bother me. I didn't choose 'torturous' because the episode contained some decent scenes and was well edited, they didn't just throw in a bunch of clips from the previous episodes like they did before.
But, I can understand why people are getting annoyed, especially people who have not read the manga and are waiting for the main plot to continue.
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