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 in the same amount of time, 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.