User blog comment:Uraharattack/Starrk's classification as a hollow?/@comment-4620155-20130821204910/@comment-11051098-20130825101032

Maybe they changed that in the anime to make Starrk's situation more... desperate? Sad? I got the feeling that his world started to crumble when he didn't get any answer. It was like he understood that for the first time, he was completely alone.

They were one, and they were alone. But when they split their soul in 2 and became Starrk and Lilynette, they had each other. They were not alone anymore. When Aizen found them and recruited them, they got more friends in the Espada and Arrancars. But their friends got killed, and when it was implied that Lilynette died after the last wolves were gone, he was suddenly alone again. As alone as he had never been.

It is a dramatic and sad part, it just makes you feel so sad for Starrk. That's what I felt when I watched that part. It might very well have been made like that on purpose.