User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 971: And the Flashback Goes On/@comment-108.83.222.210-20200217221447

The flashback will take as much time as Oda wants, there is not much we can do about that. On Orochi, while his past is tragic somehow he doesn't elicit the same sympathy from me as some such as Doflamingo, Gecko Moriah, or even Big Mom as well as other similar cases both canon and non-canon. I have sympathy for these characters even though I recognize that they needed to be defeated, I can sympathize for someone and still recognize the need for them to fall. Orochi is taking out his anger on all of Wano and not just the people initially responsible for the death of his family. He wants the people who sought his death as a child to die because he is a Kurozumi, Fine I can understand that. They shouldn't have sought the death of a child the sins of his parents. One Piece has been brutally clear on what happens in situations like that. As for Oden, he did the best he could given the information he had at the time. It would have been better for him to have someone like Luffy to help him through this true, but he was worried that if he acted then all those people would have died or worse. Who knows, maybe Kaido or Orochi more likely would have used them as shields. I don't know if he has any regrets or not, but I know that I have made mistakes in my life that were obvious in hindsight. That is merely a part of the human condition. While he would never wish the circumstances of his friends and family members on them, who is to say that any of them would be alive now if he had acted carelessly. Perhaps they would have been used as scapegoats similar to how King Riku and his family were by Kaido and Orochi. They could have inflicted worse horrors upon the people of Wano and with every torment, every death, every second of agony, directed the anger of the people suffering, the misery, and despair upon Oden and his family as revenge for their torments. Not only do his children respect him, but his family name still has power, the power to rally old comrades, and the power to scare Orochi. Finally, for his final moments it could be that he dies this way. It is a horrible way to die for certain, but in a manner of speaking this is as much a way of going down fighting as it would be to see him die fighting Kaido.