User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 862: Semi-Charmed Kind of Life/@comment-24850639-20170413133801

I love how Oda hands the theorists L after L, I really do. It's like he puts all the pieces there for you to speculate what will actually happen, but his writing causes you to focus on other factors that leads to multitudes of other possibilities. For starters, we were lead to believe that Big Mom would actually be very overprotective and play favorites with Pudding because of her potential, and she in fact is, but because of that we were completely blindsided by the fact that Big Mom herself was among that people that teased her about the third eye. That was the seed of all this supposed doubt we'd seen from her, and though it doesn't perfectly explain the Lola flashbacks, the fact that she would have them makes a lot more sense now. On the Sanji side, it was never confirmed 100% if Sanji was aware of her third eye - either through conversing through Reiju afterwards or going over the plan with Bege. Sure some of us theorized that Sanji might actually fall in love with her despite the neferious intentions, but I daresay few people saw him finding the eye "beautiful" coming, and THAT being what caused the plan to break down. Masterful writing.

I definitely don't recall Brulee using her mirror powers to make multiple Luffy's eat the cake part of the plan, but it does help answer what the favor was that Luffy asked of Bege. I'm just expecting the plan to start to break down at this point, so I'm excited where things are headed. I wanna see Sanji kick major ass in that outfit, I'm digging it. My Sanji vs. Katakuri hopes are still alive and strong after watching him effortlessly dodge that jellybean! I've gotta see definitive proof it wont happen before I stop being hype lol. The Vinsmokes will be interesting, they don't seem quite aware of the Big Mom's intended treachery yet....but see that the priest got taken out and Sanji is fine, while Pudding is not.

P.S. This doesn't change my opinion of Pudding, until I maybe I see more. Lots of kids got teased in this series, they didn't go killing people. In fact she handled teasing the EXACT OPPOSITE way Sanji did. Gonna need to see more of her characterization before I can give her a pass.