User blog comment:Fliu/Should Lola have told the Straw Hats who her mother was back at Thriller Bark?/@comment-53507-20170420103836

In most stories, it's common for an author to throw in pieces of information little by little and leave out the big stuff to build up a surprise elements later in the story, but during this, he'll leave us thinking. Oda for 20 years has always done things like this. For example we have not have the full image of Raftel, as Oda kept it obscure but we can see that there are buildings on it and it's highly likely it's a site of a Great Kingdom. Plus, he did not even have Kokoro tell us where Fishman Island was until chapter 490. This is what makes stories so fun to read, if you just spilled the beans in one chapter then it would be boring so Oda kept Lola's mother's identity a secret until the time is right but many people were correct that before the fact was revealed that Big Mom was her mother.

One Piece is like LOST, it keeps you thinking and keep on coming back for some more.

But with Big Mom on a path to get her ass kicked, Lola will learn the hard way that her mother was bad or she knew already but can't accept it.