Aaaah, so this was the big thing everyone was waiting for. The big bad guy is finally revealed, and next episode we’ll learn what he’s planning. It’s interesting to see how every character will be reacting to this, but I do have some problems with this. The big bad guy just seems too ultrapowerful. It’s perfect in any way, and has found a perfect strategy. I so hope that at least a few persons will be able to make him scared, apart, of course, from Ichigo. It was also nice to see a whole episode without him. He’s by no means a bad character, but when he does get in the spotlight, especially at this point, you can take poison on that he’s going to end up fighting.
It was also nice to see that some people actually DIED this episode. Finally they are moving into the right direction a bit, although the creators have to make their deaths count for a bit, and not make it seem like they wanted to get rid of a few characters because of budgetting problems.
That said, I’m still a bit disappointed with how this turned out. The reason stated above. This episode did make me lose even more interest in the main plot, but ironically it did increase my interest for the subplots. Especially the conflict between the 1st, 8th and 13th captain (read: conflict, NOT fight).
