User blog comment:Rhavkin/Over, under, around and through.../@comment-24850639-20171212154945

I found myself irritated at the start of this actually. For as monumental as this fight is for Luffy, Oda didn't really provide a payoff for the hype that was present going into round 2. People have some pretty big expectations when they see a Rayleigh flashback, and up until now Oda has led us to believe that Luffy stating any kind of aspiration is foreshadowing. Yes we know Luffy wants to beat Katakuri, but at the same time he was also very specific:

- Katakuri at full power

- Learning the ability to see into the future as Katakuri does

- Surpassing Katakuri in strength

He created this huge buildup and expectation that we would see Luffy try to make some kind of effort towards these goals, or that maybe he would expound on them before entering the Mirro World again, but instead we instantly jump to it and the fight begins in earnest. I felt like Luffy's journey back to that spot would have probaby been one worthy of seeing, along with any thoughts he had along the way, but nope we just jump straight into it. Hopefully Oda makes up for it with the rest of the fight. In Luffy's defense, just about everything that Katakuri did surprised him or caught him off guard in some kind of way, so there was no way he was going to have access to his Kenbunshoku haki. Let's see how this fight plays out differently now that he's actually thinking straight.