Anyone else just entirely confused as to what Oda intends to do with Big Mom's crew? Like it took 50 chapters for them to come back from being insulted by King, only for them to be gone another 50 chapters from Marco lmao.
Yes, the arc is 100% centralized on the Beast Pirates, but I'm super curious what he intends to do with the 7 Strawhats (+Yamato) as we reach the final stages of the battle. Like I can't really tell what Jinbe, Franky and Nami are doing. Also just as confused as to the state of Chopper and what that supposed to end up doing (might just be nothing I guess...). Usopp currently has a goal in rescuing Kin and Kiku and Brook/Robin are running away from CP-0.
Even there, the 2 members present are being stopped by Apoo/Drake, but for how long? Is that fight permanent? Where is the 3rd one? Eliminating WsW? I did like
@sanjikun 's idea of having the 3 post enies Lobby strawhats (assuming Yamato is one) fight off these 3 to protect Robin, which gives Jinbe a higher diff fight and Yamato/Brook actual, definitive battles as well. I'm not sure how feasible it'll be, since firstly depends on what happens to the 2 members fighting Apoo/Drake.
But then all of this kind of ties back to that looming threat of Linlin's crew: what have they been doing this entire time? It's been figuratively "hours" since the raid started, and the only reason they waited days last time was to prevent a war between both Yonko crews, so what happens now? Did they take the Hakumai entrance? Are they following Onigashima? Are they still stuck at the bottom of the falls and are about to run into Lucci?
Their lack of presence to me does feel like a surprise moment coming, but I'm still confused between fodder, remaining Numbers, CP-0 and the BMP, how Luffy's crew and Yamato will be handled for the rest of the arc. Compare Franky's state in Dressrosa where he was repairing himself and on the verge of collapsing. He's not even hurt here. Same with Brook. It's...interesting.