User blog comment:Godisme/The Extinction/@comment-4957813-20121008222228

The enemies are totally overpowered. First Quilge Irefusetodie Opie beats down Ichigo's friends and the tres bestias, Ichigo is then removed from both the Seretei and Hueco Mundo battlefields, then 4 captains get their bankai stolen, 3 lieutenants are incapacitated, one captain is dead, another needs an eye patch, and now Yamamoto is down. And on top of that the Vandenreich now have the most dangerous bankai in existence. The plot is basically stuck at the Vandenreich slaughtering the Shinigami. The only possible way Kubo can advance the plot is to return to Hueco Mundo and reveal who was holding the sword to Urahara