What you need to know before TYBW

In the Great Betting Wars with a friend, I suffered a loss in which my punishment was to rewatch Bleach for the fourth time and update him with relevant plot info as I did so, so that he wouldnt have to watch it himself in preparation of the Thousand Year Blood War Arc. I have copied and pasted (literally) from our text messages back and forth. Included in this are rants about characters or plots and are heavily opinionated. You have been warned. Enjoy.