User blog comment:Fliu/New Thoughts on the Whole Cake Island Arc/@comment-28995593-20171117200250

I totally agree with that the SH whose are present at the WCI is much reliable in though situations than usually. All three earned some plus points at some point of the arc. Nami was a great support for Luffy in the fight against Cracker and the enraged army. Chopper managed to escape on his own in Brulee's world and helped the others in escaping. And Brook managed the copy the poneglyphs and wouded Big Mom top homies. These are great feats.

Unfortunately in OP we used to that some incapable thing must happen, like you mentioned them.

I think Luffy's luck will not run out but in the NW this luck just won't be enough for doing all those crazy stuffs. But Luffy will solve any possible problem, of course who knows how. As for Katakuri and Perospero not destroying the Thousand Sunny, I think their choose not to harm the ship because even a Yonko's crew has needs for some extra ships, especially if the ship is that well-made like the Sunny.

For the first I also thought that from the two-year training the SH would be much more effective in battle and Fishman Island mirrored my expectations. But after that we must face the reality that the SH just became strong enough to compete with the big fishes. Of course that's not meant to overwhelm them or anything. It would be boring if they just win without any struggle.

In my opinion "The year of Sanji" was precisely was what I thought it will be. I know we didn't see Sanji outshine everybody except Luffy, but I never excepted that would happen. So to me this "year of Sanji" was totally fine, since the whole year and almost this whole arc is centered around Sanji.

To be honest I thought that Sanji will beat his father and his brothers one after another and flee from them but the way the things went is a little bit more interesting and as a complete thing I can't complain about it.

I heard some theory that Sanji will make a wedding cake to satisfy Big Mom and making a truce with the temporarily calm and satisfied Big Mom. But I hoped for that never happen. In the end I'm a little disappointed that it turned out the case.

I'm very disappointed how Smoothie is doing things. She's the third highest ranking bounty-holder in the story and thus far she didn't have done anything. I expected so much more from her. But who knows what will be her true purpose, I think she will has some special role in the arc's outcome or after that.