this is the usual problem with every shonen anime, once people get bored because the pace started to become a lil slow they start complaining how they hate this and that, if you just keep your mouth closed and wait and see soon the amazing mind blowing eps will be released and you won't even remember the boring episodes, after this ep i think there will be practicaly no boring eps for a very long time, and maybe some people don't realise but the bleach anime is almost doing 3 chapters of the manga every episode which is amazing because most shonen animes do about 1 1/2 to 2 chapters