Originally posted by: Terracosmo
I wouldn't mind an extended flashback at all. I'm all for the anime crew making up how Kimimaro ended up with the sound 4 etc.
I always thought that Kimimaro was handled too hastily in the manga, his past at least.

Completely. Naruto is a flash-back heavy manga and that's actually good because one gets to know the characters very well... now that the time-jump has finally happened, most fans are able to tell, in detail, the past of each character and why do they behave the way they do, which really halps the storyline...

But Kimimaro was just there. He appeared, he was in a bad mood, he wanted to kill stuff and then he threw up and died. I was expecting, a la Gaara, a lengthy flashback explaining at the very least when and why did he meet Orochimaru and why did Orochimaru became his "precious person" or whatever. Because you need to be really fucked up to choose Orochimaru as a precious someone.

So yeah, I don't mind the flashbacks. In fact, all the better - they'll help make the anime longer and therefore will reduce the amount of bad, BAD fillers that we'll have to endure after the OMFG Sasuke is in a barrel!!!!!11 storyline.