for filler, these two eps weren't that bad. And at the end they actually went back to at least pretending to address something of importance, Aizen's curiosity with Inoue...

thank god the Ulqiorra that got pwned by filler-boys was a fake. Having Gin, Ulqiorra and Aizen in this episode made it feel so much better, even if they didn't do much.

the preview strongly, strongly suggests the upcoming end of fillers... they might do one more filler episode and end it with the Espada coming to Earth, which would be a horrible tease to get people to watch the next episode... or we could get lucky and next episode isn't filler! (or, at the very worst, they could use the Arrancar and bastardize them in filler-hell)