Review of Fairy Tail

Story: The story was decent but irritated me at times. For example, the many missions Natsu & Friends did that didn't develop any character or change the story, the many filler episodes, the weak characters of the, apparently, 'Strongest Guild', and mostly, the Timeskip. I really don't know what Fairy Tail was really aiming to do, their goals and whatnot but I do know that Natsu was aiming to find Igneel, the Dragon, everyone else, I don't know. The reason why my rating is 3/10 is mostly because of the many cliches in the anime. Ex: Fanservie characters (Virgo), abusive parents (Lucy), Parentless childhood (Natsu,Dragneel, Wendy, Erza), and mainly PLOT ARMOR. It's not even a coincidence the characters survive death so many times because there is a tree on an island that makes it so that anyone with the Fairy Tail Mark CANNOT die, ever. Another reason (my main reason) for my low score is the Time Skip. When I was watching the episode after the Time Skip when Fairy Tail returns, I was so excited to see all the characters 7 years older and how much stronger they've become but then, Fairy Tail spits in my face to tell me that the members of Fairy Tail didn't improve at all and has actually gotten weaker than before, with the remaining member of the guild just sitting around getting fat and not training at all for 7 years.

Art: the art wasn't "Oh my god, this is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen" but it wasn't the worst art i've seen. I guess you can say it's on par with the art of Naruto (Original) 8/10

Sound: I loved the soundtrack to Fairy Tail, everytime I watched an episode and heard the openings, it left me wanting to watch more episodes (Up until the Timeskip, of course.) The Voice Actors were well-picked and the battle music wasn't bad.

Characters: At the beginning of Fairy tail, (Ep 0-20) Natsu and Lucy fought Virgo. When they fought her, they struggled and had a hard time beating her. Lucy now has Virgo under her command. Currently, Virgo is a piece of crap who Lucy never uses and is not strong against enemies. From that time to the timeskip, Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Gray, none of them trained at all but you're telling me, they can fight on Par with a guild leader, let alone, Gildarts?
I don't like how none of the characters train but get stronger randomly without any sort of Shounen-type train (500 Pushups don't count)? I give the Characters, without getting specific, a 5/10 for the stated reason.

Enjoyment: I really enjoyed Fairy Tail, it was a pastime for me. I enjoyed it at a 7/10 right up until the Timeskip. When the timeskip happened, I felt like stealing the last 100 episodes back and using the time it took me to watch it on actual schoolwork that I skipped. Let me put it this way, beofore the timeskip, Fairy Tail wasn't even the strongest guild. Why the hell would they get to be frozen for 7 years while everyone else gets overwhelmingly older/stronger than all of Fairy Tail? Think of it like this, in just 2 years, characters from One Piece 5 times stronger than they were previously so in 7 years, the characters from One Piece would be blowing up continents at that point. So from 7/10, my score lowers to 4/10 just because of the Timeskip.

Overall: Fairy Tail is a 6/10, I am NOT going to finish watching/reading due the senseless timeskip.