@Ivotas:
You do realize the irony that you´re using exactly that behaviour that you actually have no sympathy for right? You´re complaining.
I guess you do it because you´re fed up with all the complaints that you hear again and again here, because it disappoints you and because it spoils your fun here right? Well if that´s the case guess what, that´s exactly the same reason why people are complaining about the anime. They are disappointed, the fun gets spoiled and their hopes to an adecuate transfer from mange to anime is ruined once again.
In other words, you sir are not better then anybody else who´s complaining here. You´re just more hippocritical because you think you´re better then the rest but in the end you act exactly the same.
And now back on topic. The fighting parts were all excellent IMO. Very well done. The filler with Jabra´s lie yuck this has nothing to do with the manga. Stretching is one thing but adding information that never was indicated by the author to have taken place in his creation sucks. They really should have exctended the fight if they wanted to fill the time since they handled that part very well.
Yeah yeah, I'm sure the irony of complaining about complaining, but then how do we stop the complaining? Besides, you're just complaining about the people who are complaining about the complainers. It's a vicious cycle.
There's a lot of whiners who watch anime/manga, particularly about flaws that are barely there.
Back on topic, great episode. It really was nice to see Sanji kick ass like this. Sure, it was a little short, but this was only like 1 1/2 chapters in the manga–so it's to be expected.