User blog comment:TVthePunisher/Bleach Episode 287...start of a new filler arc?/@comment-1268838-20100818025725

Of course, these filler arcs are a necessary "evil," regardless of how much I dislike them. As I said before, if it weren't for the random intervals at which they are presented, I would find them a tad more tolerable. At the very least, they have plenty of action in them, though it tends to be offset by fanservice and ridiculous plotlines (*cough*Toju*cough*). I just find it ridiculous that even with these filler arcs, they still have to expand the material from canon. In the animated versions of the lieutenants' battles in FKT for example: each Arrancar was seemingly defeated as they were in the manga, but then they make some ridiculous comeback and end up being defeated anyway. Wasn't a fan of Findor being 2.5x more awesome in the anime either. All for the sake of having that 5 extra minutes needed to reach the minimum time.