Filler? I don't even know 'er! aka the fuck-Bleach [SPOILERS] megathread!

[Lithp]

It wasn't foreshadowed.

Debatable, but that's not what bothers you about it.

It wasn't interesting.

A matter of debate. I'm sure Yammy fans love it.

Stark being the Primera worked because we knew there was a Primera. We knew that it had to be one of three characters. In addition, the parallels between Stark and Captain Bro gave good reason to believe that Stark would be one of the strongest Espada if not the strongest.

Those all sound like rather flimsy reasoning, to me. Hell, let me do some Devil's Advocate for Yammy:

Ulquiorra mentioned that Yammy was conserving energy for a reason. We knew that there were 10 Espada, no credible witness actually told us that the numbers ordinarily went from 1-10. It appeared that Yammy was the weakest Espada, but Aizen "appeared" to be dead.

This is a legitimately bad plot event, and it's made worse for involving the worst character.

Are you even trying to be objective?

With Bleach, I'm generally willing to suspend my disbelief provided it's cool. This idea is more or less the basis for bankais in general. "Why did his sword turn into a billion flower petals that kill you?" "Because it's cool." This wasn't a good plot twist, and it had nothing going for it to make me tolerate its stupidity.

I'm not saying that I think it was a good idea, I'm just saying that there's nothing that makes it any worse than some of the elements of the story that -I- arbitrarily choose to think are good.

Throwing in a meaningless, poorly written plot device because "it's a joke" is bad writing.

Yes, but Yammy's release barely qualifies as a plot device in the first place.

Since when were you under the impression that I cared what everyone else was doing?

You're currently engaged in promoting 2 Bandwagon Views about Bleach: That Yammy being the 10th Espada is stupid & that Bleach does a lot of badly written plot devices.

Alright, so it's unfair for me to say that you would complain about the battle raging on, but you have to admit that I have some grounds to speculate that outcome.

Aizen being responsible for every damn thing and knowing everything really strains my suspension of disbelief.

I see this as a double-edged sword. On one hand, it does come across as kind of ridiculous. On the other hand, there was a REALLY irritating plot hole regarding how Aizen didn't know about anything that was going on for a hundred years. It hasn't been completely filled yet, but that was some progress. Really, it didn't bother me THAT much, but suspension of disbelief is different for everyone.

Sometimes I make joke predictions about Bleach. It's a thing I do.

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough there. I'd assumed that the predictions were jokes--funny ones, I might add--but people at least seem to be suggesting that they're valid. I don't know, it's hard to tell that sort of thing on the internet.

Captain Bro's bankai being Calvinball.

That just confused me even more.