Originally Posted by
Soras Teva Gee
Not to defend the total Ass Pull but status and age is not always equal to power. If anything this fits with bankai not being all its cracked up to which has been running through every fight since it the Soul Society Arc. Compare Soi Fong who quite rationally never uses hers because it doesn't suit her style all that well.
It seems pretty evident that while there may be some exceptions bankai functions more like a static multiplier. Some may have x10 or x50 but this is roughly always the same so you can always compensate by simply being that much stronger before the multiplier.
So if our poor Lieutenant only had middling reiastu and a bankai that doesn't give him much he could still be fairly weak since he just has lower potential relative to even the younger Captains... that said yep its still total and complete bull****. We've known for awhile though that Tite Kubo can't actually write and just pulls crap out of his arse when he gets stuck.
Also Tite Kubo isn't the George Lucas of manga Lucas has plenty of different ideas they just aren't terribly good... No Tite Kubo is the Rob Liefeld of manga. (If Liefeld had basic artistic ability)