User blog comment:Salubri/Chapter 399 - Gin's Bankai/@comment-1248963-20100408022436

Indeed it was predictable, but it was still disappointing. Maybe it was just me, that once, a really long time ago, read a minstranslation for Shinso's name as "Silver snake" so I kinda always expected his Bankai to be "snake related", I also related it to his personality and his eyes (I always imagined a giant snake protruding from the hilt. I commented it on my blog, but the fact that we never actually knew that there was a limit to his shikai before, made it kinda unexpected that all his Bankai would do was extending longer. And since Kubo had already pulled a pretty strange Bankai, completely unrelated to its Shikai (Soifon), it was natural to expect something spectacular.