Talk:Filler

I personally find the term "filler" completely misleading. It's usually used in anime fandom as an euphemism for "anything that was not in the source material", but it also implies that any event depicted in an adaptation-original story arc is unimportant to the overall plot, which I disagree. In the anime version of the Shin saga, episodes 17-21 is an anime-original story arc, but its still important to the plot due to the changes made to the flow of the story in the anime adaptation. Arkhound 04:32, May 14, 2010 (UTC)

True. I did this partially because somebody keeps deleting all the information on anime filler from Wikipedia, so I thought I'd preserve (part of) the article here. I also plan to flesh this out a lot more, but am waiting for the new DVD set to come out so I can rewatch the "filler" eps and take notes. (Even though I hate the Shin arc filler; the later stuff was OK.) I want to specify between "anime original story" and clip shows, too. evan1975 05:18, May 14, 2010 (UTC)