I just wanted Vegapunk to make sense, have some fun wacky science moments, connect with Franky, and not do a lot of random shit for no reason, like so many other hyped up characters.
So you didn't have expectations but you had a lot of expectation.
I mean, Shaka was watching Luffy and Zoro fight the Seraphim for how long? Does Shaka seriously not know how Lunarian flames work, despite BUILDING THE SERAPHIM?!? We're clowning on Zoro for this, Mr. Brilliant Scientist is getting attacked and like "Should I tell them how the Seraphim's defense system works? Nah." How in the hell does Vegapunk not know how to fight his own robots? What the fuck are we doing here?
Vegapunk experimented on King... what? Over two decades ago? Even ignoring how dumb it is that Vegapunk, the man who IS BUILDING A GIANT DATABASE USING HIS BRAIN BRAIN FRUIT AND WANTS TO SPREAD INFORMATION FREELY THROUGH THE WORLD, didn't know that King was a Lunarian, how in the fuck has he been experimenting with Lunarian DNA to the point he's made Lunarian CLONE CYBORGS and he can't tell Luffy and Zoro: "Oh, BTW, these guys are special and won't take damage when their flames are on. Here's when their flames turns off."
Maybe, you know, he doesn't really want his creation to be turned to shred ? Did that pass at least once through your mind that vegapunk is an actual scientific and
human that loves his creation too much ? Oda is always in the subtext for that kind of things. Vegapunk Shaka holding back information in that context is perfectly explainable.
People like you see character like machines. They should not make no mistakes, no error of judgment. But One Piece is FULL of that type of subtle characterization.
Luffy and Zoro refusing to use CoC is also ridiculous on a large amount of levels.
Same BS. You think of character like machine, that should be 100% all the time.But the thing is: that wouldn't be good storytelling. Not in One Piece at least.
Plus, they have something called stamina, there is no reason to think those attack will work.
Franky's been ignore the entire arc except by Edison, who next bothered to ask why Franky can shoot laser beams in the first place. Man is clearly a cyborg, and Vegapunk doesn't care.
Same BS, you don't think Vegapunk as other things to think about rather than Franky right now ?
The pacing would be sooooo much smoother if they didn't get separated at the beginning of EVERY FUCKING ARC.
No it would not. Actually, the split helps the pacing go faster, not slower. I think you are confusing pacing and focus.
The pacing is always great on One Piece (afar from a few exceptions). This is a common missconception.
That's why the outside stuff is so much more hype: look at how fast paced, crisp, and full of energy Blackbeard vs Law is. When Oda writes outside the arc, his pacing dramatically approves. Look at the Reverie.
No, That's not because of pacing, that's because of Worldbuilding. Oda always condenses much more worldbuilding during those transition scene, that's why you think they are special.
Oda learned from the things that made Wano drag
Wano didn't Drag for the most part. Again, common confused analysis of wanabee storyteller. Ask anyone reading Wano now if Wano is a drag. They will tell you : "what the frick ?" Aside from exception here and there in the arc, Wano had very few pacing mistakes and mistakes in general.
Straw Hats split up too much, little crew interaction. Too many characters introduced at once (Scabbards/Punks), without individual plotlines/moments to make them feel important.
Sometimes, the story is not all about the strawhats. I can understand the frustration but this is not inheretly bad, its just a choice by Oda.
And contrary to the belief, pretime skip wasn't much more focus on the strawhat either, the difference is that we had more introduction arcs than post time skip.