User blog comment:Jojo-a-gogo/Do you think that Mad House messed up by not showing Kite in the first episode?/@comment-5314364-20121218100024/@comment-4924732-20121219062130

There's been nearly as many filler episodes in 2011 as 1999, if you count recap and the randomly added scenes in 2011.

The characterization in 1999 was definitely not better, and even wrongly characterized almost the whole cast. The 1999 version tried to stereotype each character into something they weren't. They heavily overplayed Kurapika as a tragic hero who regrets  his killings; but in the manga and 2011, that is totally untrue. Kurapika doe not waiver after or regret killing Uvo.