User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/414: Deicide 16/@comment-1248963-20100801090941

So in the end it seems we're in the dark with Gin, just as always. A month ago we were discussing over wether he would betray Aizen when Matsumoto showed up, and whether he would turn out to be good or bad. And now he did betray Aizen, but claims to have killed Matsumoto, so we still don't know what he has in mind for the future. It is as Prophet says, he either seems to be in a grey zone (silver, ok, bad joke), where everything only counts for Gin's own benefits, or we'll have to do the usual, wait for next week and see how things play off.

I'm not sure of how good or bad killing Aizen at this point would be. There are a lot of plotholes around him that would never be filled if he died (the big "plan", the Bankai, the Hogyoku -though Urahara did get defeated without revealing the whole Hogyoku ordeal so...) but there are also a lot of plotholes in him staying alive (starting by the huge power gap between him and Ichigo). Probably the Aizen retreating scenario would be the most logical here, though I'd seriously hate it. I just wanna get over Aizen already. Definitely having Gin get killed off like Tosen was would be the worst possible outcome both for the story (since it is getting way too repetitive) and for us (because we all love Gin)

BTW, Yesterday it was determined that for the moment, Matsumoto's status was to be called "deceased". When I read it I was in shock! But then I realized that it does follow the wiki's procedures, another character (Gin in this case) called her dead, and we did see her with that blank face on the roof last week. Of course until Gin's true intentions are revealed we can't be certain if he was lying or not, but for the time being, we know he said she was dead so... that's it. And it's quite a shock to navigate through the wiki and see her status as "Deceased", and her position "Vacant" and the articles saying "She died by the hands of Gin Ichimaru".

Yikes, I'm doing this posts so long...