I’m not a Lucci fan but I did expect more from him here. It feels like this is where he’ll be written out of the manga, at least out of prominent roles. Lucci trying to hunt the Vegapunks and Zoro stopping him would’ve been a pretty fun C plot to Emeth/Goofy fights.
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@Roo said it, Saturn was just enough..
Oda sometimes overboard it with so many stuffs, putting to much characters into one event for the "wow" effect without even thinking much about it. I still think the Gorosei summoing was to early.
It should come at the end, with Saturn getting smacked by Emeth and calling all the others for the help.
In that case Zoro vs Lucci could get more screentime, make Luffy round 2 vs Kizaru better with a first showcase of awakening, giving less screentime for running and stalling. Oda sometimes don´t really think what he do, he just add nonsense stuff and make the end worse.
He even said that he want to add so many stuff as he think, that is the problem.
It should be simple, if he done it like I wrote above, Egghead would be easily 10/10, more clean and better, no running and stalling, like he did with Luffy vs Katakuri, give Lucci vs Zoro 2-3Chapters and Luffy vs Kizaru 3-5Chapters, while making in side the boardcast, Emeth short clash with Saturn.
Once Luffy and Zoro defeated Kizaru and Lucci in a hard battles, Gorosei hype could come and show how op they are, make Emeth sacrifice himself to let all escape in 2-3 chapters. It would make look every side looking good, Lucci would look good, Kizaru too, the Gorosei, Emeth and of course the strawhats.
The newest route clearly damaged the hype of the Gorosei...
Oda worst mistake was after the Kuma flashback. He never should add the Gorosei all at once, things like this never work out, he already had problems to give good screentime for Kaido and Big Mom together, with Kaido totally overshining Big Mom.