User blog comment:Godisme/Battlefield Shallows, Otherfield Abyss/@comment-1268838-20110331004542

I personally think it's too much to expect that any one chapter is going to make the arc any better/worse than it already is. Making that analysis really only works in retrospect - I think it suffices to say that the past two arcs did not produce nearly as much story as this one, the Arrancar arc in particular. Analyzing the foreshadowing bit is a task for another time.

Overall, I don't have a problem with Jackie's Dirty Boots, asides from the fact that she looks like a Yoruichi clone with them on. A few of her fighting poses even looked the same. The concept of being made of mud is interesting though, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, as I did for Dollhouse.