User blog comment:Lemursrule/THE ARRANCAR ARC IS OVER!/@comment-1211470-20100928105600/@comment-1454424-20100929033323

That's because you are not making any sense. Did you want Rukia to kill herself? I don't get what the freaking problem is? Byakuya the Kido expert used a Kido that is supposedly his signature skill to stop Rukia. He succeeded. Why couldn't he succeed? What in the story says he couldn't succeed? No matter how many times you say it, just because a kido designed to immobilise a person succeeds in immobilising the person, just because a barrier designed to protect, protects, doesn't make it deus ex machina/plotkai. It's what is generally called a battle narrative.

But clearly we are not going anywhere. So let me make a few things clear,

1. As I have demonstrated, plotline and storyline are the same thing and as such, when the story is ongoing - it makes sense for plotlines to be carried forward from arc to arc. Please refrain from comments suc as "its basic story telling 101" when you, yourself are contriving the definition of terms.

2. Deus ex machina is not defined by how convenient something was. It is defined by how contrived and unexpected something was. A immobilising kido and a kido barrier from a master of kido succeeding in immobilising and blocking is neither contrived nor unexpected.

In short, when you are clearly using your own personal definition of common literally terms, you put us in a situation where we are trying to correct your terms and if one thing has been established, it's that you are not using the terms correctly.