@Robby:
I haven't watched the show in forever so context of the actual series having more is lost on me at this point… it just feels like even the "abridged" arc has been going on forever. It doesn't feel like they've been skipping much of anything, even if they're leaving out the really pointless stuff.
I think that's mostly due to Waking the Dragons being, while not the longest arc, a really tedious and slow-paced one, so even the Abridged version suffers its effects. For record, the most recent episode was the 14th of the abridged arc, while in the original arc, we'd be up to episode 23 (out of 40). But, if I estimate correctly, I'd say we only have five episodes left in the abridged version.
By comparison, the first arc was 19 episodes in the abridged version and 40 episodes in the original, so…yeah, pretty much par for the course.