@RobZilla:
So do people still think Oda deliberately stretched things out to chapter 800?
Like, the chapter has some nice stuff going on and it's set up Luffy's future fleet but…not really that earth shattering, no?
Yeah, all that speculation about Oda's devilish plan to stretch Dressrosa till exactly chapter 800. . .and we're not even done yet with Dressrosa 100%. And, no, the chapter was nice but, as you say, it's not one of those earth shattering chapters at all.
Things went basically as expected: Luffy says "fuck that responsability, let's be friends and help each other when in need", and the rest being "we're joining you anyways, cause we're also free to do as we please".
Party was way too short, though. Nice to see Wicca and Baby 5 in there. And Barto really, really got Luffy's mindset the most. Now, where's his ship? I'm expecting an exact replica of the Going Merry.
When a better scan comes and I have more time, I want to search for background stuff and hidden nuggets. This chapter should have a couple of those.