User blog comment:Lordxehanort/Speculation and Opinions/@comment-1826173-20100128212417

I can see where you are coming from because Blackbeard by himself captured Ace(refering back to what L-Train said) The capture of ace set all of this into motion. If you think back to when Blackbeard and Ace were fighting Blackbeards crew didn't participate in the fight. Blackbeard alone is rediculously powerful then we add in his crew whom we don't know that much about AND we add Shiryuu whom was compared too Magellen in strength we have a Crew that could possibly take down people that were already giving the Straw hats a tough time (3 Marine Admirals for example) Hell even Geko Moria was too much for the Straw Hats when it comes down to it. So in short Blackbeard pirates are very powerful just from 2/7 crew members (2 being the two we know something about)

For the other topic The Straw hats are currently seperated the characteristics of each individual person should change after this experience. I am not sure how Edo is going to bring them together everyone is so far away from each other and the only method of seeing everyone is to meet where ever Rayleigh is which would put them back to Shabaody Archipeligo, for Luffy not to far away, for everyone else my god we are talking 15 islands each per person or maybe more.