User blog comment:Fallowstar24/The Good and Bad of Filler Arcs/@comment-1906999-20110124162221

The timeline is really impossible to overcome for all fillers except the bounts, because everything from the invasion of Hueco Mundo (about episode 140) until the defeat of Aizen (about 3-4 episodes out from now) happens back to back with no breaks. But now, after Aizen is defeated, there will be a huge gap in time for the animators to play with. The only problem is, the main character will be powerless for that entire time. We still don't know if they'll make a filler between the end of the Arrancar arc and the beginning of the new one, or if they'll take a break like some people are saying. It could be interesting (or a trainwreck) to see how they'll handle that it if they do make one.

As far as the previous arc, I wouldn't call myself neutral, It's more like Hit-and-miss. I still haven't seen the bount arc (I'll get to it eventually), so I can't say anything there. Amagai arc was good, especially near the end. I enjoyed the Zanpakutou Arc very much, and it's actually my favorite filler. The Tojou arc was... On a scale of one to ten, I'd rate it at fail.

Now, as good or bad as the fillers arcs can be, they are almost always better than the one episode fillers they've been doing a lot of lately. This season, the only one that wasn't excruciating to watch for me was the Hell Arc movie special, and that's because there's a bigger story to it that the other one shot episodes. I guess my poiint is if I would have to choose between semi-decent fillers that run for 30-40 episodes or horrible fillers every 4-5 canon episodes, I would personally pick the full arcs.