User blog comment:TVthePunisher/Bleach Episode 287...start of a new filler arc?/@comment-1405841-20100818073617

Great to see all of your guy's opinions and you're reassuring me that this only a cutaway for maybe a total of 3 episodes. I've heard a lot of your troubles and my main one with Bleach is the need to completely halt the story! For me, the Bount Arc actually SEEMED like it could have taken place after they got back from the Soul Society and thus characters were even incoporated into Canon material (the mod souls, Kariya during Ichigo's training to control his Hollow powers....). I really like PLANNED OUT filler arcs, it seems like that one was meant to be placed after they got back from the Soul Society...but these other ones, like Amagai just "took a break" after the Grimmjow fight, then the break after 226 to show the Zanpakuto arcs (I did enjoy the segment at the end of that episode where Ulquiorra said "You can't fight the stuido execs" and Ichigo is like "WHAT, AGAIN?! ALREADY?!"...apparently they were taking situational humor into fact and realized the uproar they got before...which is why Nel said "Bare with us for a bit!"...long bit there guys!).

Anyways, other series like Naruto or Dragon Ball Z (at least the first anime) stuff their filler arcs in reasonable places and tried to make it seem like these situations actually took place in the story. DBZ didn't really have so much of a filler arc persay, except for Garlic Junior being related to the movie...(which causes a lot of plotholes trying to make it canon, especially with the first few episodes/chapters in the Manga), but Naruto hit us with a complete filler arc about the Tea Leaf village...or whatever, then like what...3 DVD boxsets of filler episodes after that?

Again, I like filler if it seems like it takes place in the current timeline instead of just throwing it in like a movie split up into 20 episodes. ~_~;