User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH 342 Review: The Big Goodbye/@comment-955994-20111006164856

I was hoping they'd do something that focused on minor characters as well. But, thanks to the stupid limitations the writers put on characters in filler, most characters sound one dimensional (in fact several people could predict what the characters were going to say), made worse that they usually only use the popular ones) and I doubt minor characters will ever get something like that in anime, unless Kubo writes it. Maybe actually do stuff that Kubo doesn't have time for in the manga (like the ashido arc he wanted to put that in but didn't have time)

Hell, Naruto may have had 2 years of filler but at least it did focus on minor characters. That's got to be a positive of it.

I consider the best fight of the arc to be the Komamura vs Reigai Sui-Feng one. Not only did it focus on a character that doesn't show up that much in canon (and my favorite character). He actually wins. He also finally did something in canon, and not just get troll-ko'd in the first ep and spend the rest of the arc in a coma until the final battle like the zanpaktou arc (one of the reasons I don't like it, as well as only focusing on popular characters, Zaraki being utterly pointless in this arc as he doesn't know his zan's name, most of the zanpaktou being pointless, displaying powers they don't have in canon,, and the fiend sword arc that yet again only focuses on popular shinigami).

And yeah invading army, besides that one fight, was terrible. Plot holes and inconsistency, overpowered villain and a mary-sue. The reigai constantly revived and all defeated for good in a massive cop-out. And missed opportunities all around (It would have been much better to show more of the gotei 13 in the human world, it was even in the title of episode 320, instead they focus on the mary-sue, ).

Any thoughts on this?