User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Theory on Longer Episodes/@comment-910220-20110117225128/@comment-910220-20110117234659

Here's another terrifying aspect: what if the company decides to add a ton of filler crap in between the timeskip period? Based on another popular series, they also had a timeskip, and the anime sure added a ton of bull that messed up the storyline here and there. What if the same happens to One Piece? I mean, they're stretching out the episodes now because the Marineford Arc is not fit for any fillers in between, but once the war's over, there's basically no more reason to stretch them out. What if they decide to return to compounding chapters into one episode, and add fillers to make up for it?