User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/419: Deicide 21 (Transcendent God Rock)/@comment-893798-20100909215427/@comment-1454424-20100909221254

Different group of people and it's not that. I am happy enough that Ichigo is kicking Aizen's butt at the moment. But after years of Aizen the mastermind, for Ichigo to defeat Aizen-the-generic-monsters is a bit anti-climactic. It's sort of like, Aizen the mastermind was too mastermind like to be defeated by someone like Ichigo who is all brute-force.

So Aizen transforms and actually changes personalities in the process. Going from "thinking everything out" to "not even thinking his attacks or defense through anymore like he used to, or even bothering to find out the effects of his opponents' and his own attacks". It's... a little bit anti-climactic because Aizen seems to have undergone a Lobotomy. He was still showing some signs of his old intelligence around Gin but then he became butterflizen and... his brains been going downhill since. That's what I am a little sad about.

But as I said, this seems to be Kubo's take on "Evil destroys itself". I mean, I am a bit Lord of the Ring fan and in the Lord of the Ring, Sauron was a god-like immortal spirit who could not be killed or harmed until he made the one ring and "poured too much of himself into it". Even as the one ring gave him power. It also became his Achilles' heel and by destroying the ring, the heros of the day could destroy Sauron's power forever.

Same deal with Aizen, seemingly. In his quest for more power, he embedded himself with the Hogyoku. But by doing so he's become less dangerous. Captain Aizen might have been the second most powerful Shinigami after Yamamoto but he was still aware that he was not all powerful and that he had boundaries due to his Shinigami form. Being aware of his own weakness, he was actually a more dangerous opponent then he is now. Now, he's reached the point where he believes that nothing can hurt him. In short, he's now so arrogant and cocky, he's actually diminished as an enemy. It's all raw strength from here on end. Aizen the mastermind is well and truly dead. This Aizen, is just a really, really powerful run of the mill generic villain. No different then your average power-ranger monster of the week.