@Apprentice:
I can't make you see whats right in front of you if you are blind. Lol no i will go back and see what you are talking about. Re-read my post where i replied to you about luffy's speech. That's what it meant to me. i said it right there in the post already. And yes it does suggest that luffy believes that he is the only one who can win. I admit that. It doesn't make it true. Do you mean to tell me that you believe Sanji had a 5% chance of beating arlong or less? Because if it was more than that he absolutely had a reasonable opportunity to beat arlong. I never said the odds were in his favor to win. I said it's possible.
Basically, you think Luffy said this:
"I can't do the thing only person 1 in my crew can do, I can't do the thing only person 2 in my crew can do, I can't do the thing that only person 3 in my crew can do, I can't do the thing only person 4 can do in my crew!"
"Then what can you do?"
"I can do the thing persons 1 and 2 in my crew can also do."
Do you not see how that makes for a really badly written moment?
That aside, you've ducked the point. Why did Oda write that speech in, in your view? What is he telling us? If you interpret big character moments in a purely in-universe way, you're either missing half of the significance, or else you just consider Oda to be such an abysmal writer as to say he cannot have been carrying any greater point.
