When the makers of the show were yet to announce the TWIST in this two-parter, they should've just said twelve weeks. Everybody knew that it would be a movie, but nobody knew that we would have to wait twelve weeks!
Twelve goddamn weeks! After three years and a whole season of (mostly) fillers, after "The Beach", after "Nightmares and Daydreams" they have once again vomited in our proverbial kettle! Twelve weeks is the time needed to shoot two or three fifths of an epic feature a la LOTR! WTF? Are they using rare animation cells made only in the jungles of Calcuta?
Okay, I actually have a logical theory, which tells me that they will probably use this time to finish the remaining episodes of the show and be done with it. Maybe, just maybe we will have regular air-dates then.
But...twelve weeks! ARRGH!