User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Silver Mine Arc Review: Pathways to Gold/@comment-27567784-20160717205726/@comment-34981281-20160717221215

And I'm going to disagree. G-8 arc is overrated and the myth that it's fantastic, I believe, came about much in the same way as the telephone game. "All filler arcs are pretty bad, but the least bad is probably G-8" -> "The G-8 is actually pretty tolerable for a filler arc" -> "Yeah, the filler's bad. Except for G-8" -> "The G-8 arc is so good it may as well be canon" -> "G-8 arc is one of the best arcs in One Piece even though it's filler"

Now, opinions are opinions and I'm sure a lot of people genuinely enjoy the arc, but don't buy the hype and expect it to be anything more than filler. It is not the quality story-telling One Piece usually offers.