User blog comment:Videogamep/One Piece Fillers/@comment-5601098-20131222063159/@comment-99.44.162.205-20131222215848

The Goat Island filler, the Post-Alabasta Arc, and both Foxy Return arcs were really bad and were totally remain filler put there to only stall for time...

But... I have to disagree with you on saying all One Piece filler is bad, when G-8 had some of the best puzzles the anime has ever had, rather than just show random fights between the StrawHats and the Marines like in some canon episodes we got to see them working as a team overcoming challenges and using their brains (well most of them) to escape a Marine base.

Ruluka Island was also good because there was foreshadowing to it in the previous filler arcs before it, rather than just forcing us into a random island and a random mystery. Plus the plot is still original to this day, I haven't seen anything like it in the hundreds of episodes I've watched.

And like you said the Lovely Land arc was great as well, it gave off the feeling that the New World was around the corner (even if it really was not).