User blog comment:GinIchimaru/The Zero Squad: Reality vs Speculation?/@comment-1712587-20100413100629

I think it's also impotant to remember that I had (as i'm sure everyone else did) pretty high expectations on the Vizard when they were introduced. they were Captain or Vice Captain level Shinigami who not only had added hollow powers but also a mastery over this. I thought they would be super powerful because ichigo's hollow is uber strong which led me to beilve the same would be said for the other Vizard.

of course the vizard on the whole got their butts handed to them and can basically be sumed up as cannon fodder. the point being that we have been set up to believe in superpowerful shinigami before and left feeling a little cheated.