User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../Dressrosa - The Greatest Filler Arc!/@comment-2226235-20140422175258/@comment-10543621-20140423025624

Actually, they don't usually manage to fit one chapter per episode. Usually it ends up being at least two chapters. The one chapter per episode ones are really dragged out. Thanks to Sanji's extra scenes with Viola, they managed to do that a few times I think.

For me, I rather these filler scenes you've mentioned (extra info is always nice, even if they essentially don't really change anything), rather than just scenes that are delibrately dragged out. We've had a lot of staring scenes, up and down, left and right slow motion camera movement, pausing at facial expressions for 5 seconds etc etc. Those are annoying as hell...