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Beyond Sabody Archipelago
Jun. 28th, 2012 08:18 pmIf there's one advantage to being so thoroughly spoiled for a show as I am for One Piece it's... well, okay, if I had to pick just one, I would have to assert that the very best kind of spoilers are the ones that give you something to look forward to. But if there's one advantage of being spoiled for things you're not going to enjoy, it's that at least you get the chance to prepare yourself for the worst. So while I may have loved just about everything leading up to the Great Strawhat Separation, every casual spoiler I'd ever heard from events beyond that point suggested this might be a good time to lower my expectations. The Honeymoon is over. We're in for the long haul.
Luffy's next couple of stops on the road to Pirate Kingship were to be the Island of the Amazons and the Gulag of Minor Antagonists and Transvestites, promising a nice long arc of material which would be tedious and illogical at best, and frustrating or severely depressing at worst. Or to get into some specifics, tedious = episode after episode where the our reliably awesome supporting cast are replaced by the population of Impel Down; illogical = the notion that the overwhelming majority of the Amazon population could be this clueless about boys and/or sex without all dying out long ago, everything about Newkama Land; frustrating = Boa Hancock and the wealth of unfortunate implications arising from all that stuff already covered under 'illogical'; depressing = Aaaaaaaaaaccccceeeeeeeee ;_;. I've watched my sister go through the whole saga already, in real time. I know where it's all going. I know roughly what significance it's all going to have in the big picture. None of this guaranteed getting there was going to be much fun.
( Like Wonder Woman, if Wonder Woman had been a narcissistic misanthropist with an angsty past instead of a generically well-intentioned superheroine, and hailed from an island of militant isolationists instead of a feminist utopia. )
Luffy's next couple of stops on the road to Pirate Kingship were to be the Island of the Amazons and the Gulag of Minor Antagonists and Transvestites, promising a nice long arc of material which would be tedious and illogical at best, and frustrating or severely depressing at worst. Or to get into some specifics, tedious = episode after episode where the our reliably awesome supporting cast are replaced by the population of Impel Down; illogical = the notion that the overwhelming majority of the Amazon population could be this clueless about boys and/or sex without all dying out long ago, everything about Newkama Land; frustrating = Boa Hancock and the wealth of unfortunate implications arising from all that stuff already covered under 'illogical'; depressing = Aaaaaaaaaaccccceeeeeeeee ;_;. I've watched my sister go through the whole saga already, in real time. I know where it's all going. I know roughly what significance it's all going to have in the big picture. None of this guaranteed getting there was going to be much fun.
( Like Wonder Woman, if Wonder Woman had been a narcissistic misanthropist with an angsty past instead of a generically well-intentioned superheroine, and hailed from an island of militant isolationists instead of a feminist utopia. )