Quote Originally Posted by darkmetal505
The uprising is going to be useless, unless it is used as a distraction. The shinigami will just chop down the rebelling peasents.

Introducing Ran'Tao will just promote this arc to become longer.

On a side note, it seems like Ishida likes his older women....
Not sure if it's a spoiler talking about this, but in the preview for the next episode, it pretty much shows what you stated, the outcome of Shinigami fighting peasants, especially ranked Shinigami. A good surge of spirit power from one Lieutenant should be enough to put down the entire uprising.

What I hate about this arc (and fillers in general) is the way the supporting cast is reduced to nothing roles. Characters like Chado and Inoue are basically dumbed down, and a whole slew of uninteresting and generally obnoxious new characters are introduced (Ririn, Claude, etc). I understand the necessity of this, since you don't want to develop the characters in ways contrary to the manga, but it's still frustrating and there has to be a better solution.

I wonder if the development of the Ishida character in the anime means that the character is left unexplored in the manga?