User blog comment:Lemursrule/The Soul Society Arc Overrated? The Pros and Cons of the Soul Society Arc/@comment-1429792-20110316140058

Good post Lemurslue, many great points. I think a lot (but not all) of the complaints about story pacing in Arrancar arc (and lack of complaints about SS arc) are due to people starting to watch/read Bleach months/years after it started. Pacing doesn't seem like such an issue when you can breeze through episodes 1-63, but then having to wait to watch the rest at one a week will make it seem worse.

Agent of the Shinigami arc (Volume 1-8) = 103 Votes (2.21% of all votes) Soul Society arc (Volume 9-20) = 971 Votes (20.87% of all votes) Arrancar arc (Volume 21-48) = 2569 Votes (55.21% of all votes)

Those are the results of the last poll on the main page, so seems majority of people thought the Arrancar arc was better than SS arc. Of course polls should be taken with a grain of salt, but it is a huge majority.