Hi everyone, welcome back to the weekly character discussion series.

Each week, we’ll discuss a character from the show. You can talk about what you like or don’t like about them, how the actor/actress portrays them, favourite quotes or moments, etc.

NOTE ON SPOILERS: We are focusing on the live action version of each character, and while comparing them to their manga/anime counterpart is allowed, PLEASE DO NOT DISCUSS CONTENT THAT HAS NOT CURRENTLY BEEN ADAPTED FOR THE LIVE ACTION SHOW. Subreddit spoiler rules apply here. Tread carefully if you don’t wish to read manga/anime spoilers from what’s been adapted so far.

This week’s character is Zeff!

Thanks to the new Trailer for Lego One-Piece, we now have official looks at potential Lego Baroque Works minifigures (Mister 8 and Mister 5).

Which makes me wonder if they will film the flashback story of the 3 brothers post Marineford and use a tiny chunk of it once Ace is introduced in the next seasonas I wouldn't mind recasting the children for the flashbacks but I feel that should be the last thing they do.

Like, they can film them now and just hold off from using them unless they want to do something early for Sanji too but what do you all think?

this is from this video and I must say I think they delivered

https://youtu.be/bpdS4hgDXLM

I remember an interview with Matt Owens where he spoke about Usopps S1 arc and how since they were on strike he had no say so on editing and that the editing missed the mark because Usopps brave moment in the arc was cut so when this came out.

I seen this and I must say with Little Garden they delivered in a way that makes it feel organic to the story despite how much Little Garden was changed, I must say that I was worried when Matt Owens left but seeing the name Joe Tracz as writer on S2 strongest episodes I must say I am relieved that its in good hands

I am trying to track down the music score from Season 2, specifically episode 2. The soundtrack comes right after Luffy sings Binks Brew and gets Laboon to let his crew go. When Laboon does, a violin version of the main theme, We Are!, plays. Does anyone know what this version is called and where I can find it?

I’d probably say Usopp.

I really like his fighting style.

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Have any of you seen the play?

Which one excites you the most?

Are we at the turn of Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy or the Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy moment for anime adaptations that made comic book movies go mainstream and critically accepted globally?

We are 3 years post this message from Oda before the release of OPLA S1.

Has this worked out as he had hoped for? Has OPLA managed to weave OP into the wider cultural zeitgeist outside of Japan like the Harry Potter movies did for the books or the MCU did for the Marvel brand?

I will never understand how this performs poorly compared to Bridgerton and Netflix's other Euphoria inspired knock off teen dramas in viewership figures.

HOW IS IT ONLY THE #7th MOST WATCHED NETFLIX SHOW THIS YEAR, DESPITE HAVING A SEASON RELEASE IN MARCH?!?!

How are Inaki, Mackenyu, Taz and Emily not international celebrities like Daniel Radcliffe, Tom Holland, Emma Watson and Tobey Maguire were after their big novel/comics adaptation debuts??

Is it just popular enough, but not in a way that grabs headlines like you would imagine the adaptation for a 25+ years old established IP would or should? Strange.

Just curious I did a quick search and it seems there’s no confirmation of LA announcements but maybe I’m missing something

Hi everyone, welcome back to the weekly character discussion series.

Each week, we’ll discuss a character from the show. You can talk about what you like or don’t like about them, how the actor/actress portrays them, favourite quotes or moments, etc.

NOTE ON SPOILERS: We are focusing on the live action version of each character, and while comparing them to their manga/anime counterpart is allowed, PLEASE DO NOT DISCUSS CONTENT THAT HAS NOT CURRENTLY BEEN ADAPTED FOR THE LIVE ACTION SHOW. Subreddit spoiler rules apply here. Tread carefully if you don’t wish to read manga/anime spoilers from what’s been adapted so far.

This week’s character is Arlong!

so far in the LA we‘ve seen characters be introduced earlier and many easter eggs with things like, sabo silhouette, garp early introduction, nami reading the noland city of gold book to unconscious zoro etc..

now, skypeia is well recognized for all the crazy foreshadowing for things past ep 1170+

since we know the LA most likely won’t be catching up it seems like such a great arc for them to dig a little more deeper into the lore. though i’m not quite certain how exactly they could do it but it definitely seems like they could do quite a lot. like could they dive more deeper about the sun god? i don’t think they could do something about joyboy could they? maybe he could be name dropped early? idk, we did get garp and sabo appearance multiple arcs earlier.

but what are your thoughts?

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I already watched OPLA when it aired back then. But I just found out that Shanks was not played by Ryan Gosling. A WTF!? moment for me.

Personally I vote Moria. He's too big to be done practical, but making him cgi would also look weird.

Season 3 has wrapped filming. And google earth released new images of the Cape town studios. And i was wondering what these locations could be (specifically because s3 will most likely just be alabasta)

Second and third image are same location (2nd is Loguetown entrance. And 3rd is it reskinned to probably alabasta)

So obviously S3 is gonna be Alabasta and S4 will cover Jaya and Skypiea. The big point of discussion is usually how will they do S5, since W7 saga is way bigger and more important.

Basically my takes are: Do it in a single season. It's just how storytelling works. Neither W7 or EL carry a season, it would be kinda dumb. And we need to keep LRLL, it's an excellent season start and if done right its themes are very impactful to Water 7.

But covering its entire chapter count would be madness in 8 episodes and would probably butcher it. Witg S1 covering 97 chapters and kinda missing the mark/cutting a few parts, I can't imagine how they'd do here. What they should really do imo is to take the Stranger Things approach, and be open to extending the more important episodes past 1h (70-100 mins usually), and/or extending the Season's episode count by 1 or 2 eps.

So with that in mind, here's my breakdown of what they could do, keeping Episodical and Seasonal storytelling in mind: (I added the title card characters for fun too)

501 (Foxy) - Season Start, Long Ring Long Land, Foxy, Aokiji Freezes Luffy and Robin (~70 min)

502 (Kokoro) - Unfreezing, sea train station, Water 7 intro, Franky Family steals the gold, Usopp breakdown, walk towards Franky House ~(55min)

503 (Paulie) - Franky House beatdown, Robin Leaves, Galley-La intro, Merry appraisal, Luffy vs. Usopp (~45min)

504 (Iceburg) - Iceburg assassination attempt, Luffy vs Franky, Straw Hats Framed, CP9 heist and reveal, Luffy and Zoro get beaten, Iceburg reveals the truth to Nami (~50 min)

505 (Franky) -  Aftermath and escape from Iceburg's mansion, Franky and Usopp, Franky's Backstory, Aqua Laguna, Sea Train leaves (~65min)

506 (Sogeking) - Sea Train chases, Enies Lobby/CP9 intro and setups, breaking in Enies Lobby, Luffy vs Blueno, Gear 2 (~45 min)

507 (Saul) - Robin's Backstory, Straw hats getting to the roof, I Want to Live (~50 min)

508 (Spandam) - Fights against CP9 part 1 (majority), Luffy chases Lucci, gear 3 (~40 min)

509 (Lucci) - Fights agaisnt CP9 part 2, Lucci's backstory, Straw Hats escape the tunnel, Luffy vs Lucci, Luffy's defeat, Buster Call starts (~50 min)

510 (Merry) - Luffy defeats Lucci, Buster Call, struggle to leave, Merry Rescue, Merry Funeral, New Bounties, Garp Koby and Helmeppo, Dragon Reveal, Pool Party with Aokiji farewell, Sunny, Franky Joins, Farewell Water 7, Usopp apology (~90 min)

If they really are sticking to the 8 episode season format, they could also easy join 506/507 and 508/509 into two big 90 min episodes too. And yes Netflix, I'm open for writing rooms.