User blog comment:Neowitch/688 - Escape Netherland/@comment-5631052-20121107132658/@comment-4605926-20121108203417

Yea I agree, I hate it when Oda makes every Straw Hat enemy a struggle though. I mean like seriously, things have got to be easy from time to time, you can't just put strong adversaries on every island, it makes the story less credible, especially with Luffy struggling so much to the point where you start doubting how much he actually developed. It all makes it hard to see the real efficiency of the 2 year long training.