@KageKageKing:
So you are not expecting the main cast of a shonen manga to put out a fight?
And they didn't just get in there. Brook and Pedro are expert into stealth and one of them had to play the bait and getting stucked fighting a combatant of the BM crew.
The rest had to spend one day in the seducing woods and two of them got caught by another non-commader of the crew.
In other words, they had to go through a lot of planning and even had to take advantage of factors like the Mirror World and the Vivre card, things that weren't thought at the point.
Basically, the more they could do was killing everyone and ending the manga.
If it´s the same Shonen in which the guy behind it has let the main cast fail more than once cruelly in situations they were not as outmatched as this, no i don´t actually. Or at least explain it well.
Only a distraction was necessary to completely fool a significant part of her crew who were just standing around.
And then fooled themselves out of it in a conveniently way and then used her ability against her.
A lot of planning? Alabasta took more planning, heck Enies Lobby had more planning than this.
Nah, they could be actually competent. Oda basically has to make them incompetent to explain how the main cast can even get in and get out of there, that´s the entire problem. You are pretending like that is a regular crew with regular people when we are constantly reminded "this is a Yonkou crew, we are completely outmatched", yet it´s pretty good looking so far.
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@Strooger:
Maybe the "BMs are incompetent and stoopid"-meme would be more accurate back in the middle of the arc. But the way in which the tables have turned, it only seem like the Strawhats can chip away smaller victories here and there. But in the overall, the Big Mom pirates always seem to one-up them.
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There is literally one guy who is "one-upping" them while said guy has no visible personality whatsoever, hence my initial statement -> plot device