User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/That "meh" feeling/@comment-1595565-20120630235746

I agree that a lot of this arc has been underwhelming, but no matter how much we learn that week, the end of each chapter keeps leaving me with the strange feeling that there is still more to it. Everything is only half explained. I realize that must sound blaringly obvious, but each chapter introduces a new element of the greater mystery. This week it was Velgo. I agree, this is Oda's most complex storyline yet, but this storyline is the first of its kind in One Piece. It's the first all out mystery. They received a call and went to investigate a mysterious island. They're navigating blind. This is the first arc that started with no true objective. In water 7 they had to look for a new ship, they resupplied on Little Garden, they quashed the revolt in Alabasta. None of them knew what to expect, and by extension we, the readers, don't know either. Give it time. I get the feeling this arc is like Whiskey Peak, let it run its course and by the end we'll know the point of it.