 Hello and welcome to the ground line review your source for everything one piece and today I present wife Hello greetings. Why are you here today wife? I saw a movie What was the movie called one piece just that no you saw one piece the movie the very first one There's actually an original one-piece movie, but it's just one piece. Absolutely. There is We're here to talk about that. No one piece Stomp either. I don't know if that's the Japanese. I'm making that up. I'm really sorry Japan You accompanied me to Melbourne for the Australian premiere of one piece stumpy though stampede Yeah to a theater with a crowd of many many many people with a line that stretched all the way around It went a really long way and I didn't know if we were gonna get in Even though we had tickets. So just a little bit about your background before we go into this. What is your? relationship with one piece Non-existent is the word I would use That's wonderful. So you're coming into this with a very different perspective than I think we'll see almost anywhere else I've I've read like the first six five pieces of one piece Which is kind of like a fifth. I would say you've read about the first four volumes What five years ago now? Yes So if you had to describe your experience in one word with one piece stampede, what would that word be? Okay, now if you had to expand that one word into a concise paragraph, what would that be? Oh, jeez. I mean you didn't say there was gonna be a quiz. I Enjoyed it as much as I enjoy Many movies, but I feel like it didn't give me enough of an in to enjoy it as much as I Probably could have yeah, and it's it's very much like that. So bit of background on stampede It was a movie that was made to celebrate 20 years of the one piece anime. So a stampede of years. Yeah But the way I Described it in my reviews is it would be like taking someone into Avengers Infinity War endgame without them having seen or even having any knowledge of any of the prior Marvel films Yeah, you don't do that. But the thing is I've seen a previous one piece movie. You would think I would understand slightly more Yeah, so you saw one piece film gold which was a much more standalone story. It was a heist and I love It was a heist film and it was good fun, but that movie it focused on the straw hats There were a couple of other characters from the series in it But they only had very brief cameo appearances whereas this movie was very much the opposite It took a whole ton of cameo appearances and made that the movie You know what? I would say that the entire thing was a cameo like everyone got like five seconds Which is why every five seconds. I was like way who's that? Hang on. Hang on. Hang on Hang on. No, no, no, no. Go back. Go back. Go back. Go back. I think I understand. No, I don't understand anymore I'm confused and then there's a lot of characters that look like other characters. Yes I was gonna bring that up next. There were a lot of characters who you thought were the same character Sanji and Sabo they stand out you thought they were essentially the same person right up until the end not until the end I It was only when I realized that I knew for a fact that Sanji has weird eyebrows and I Didn't see the eye. I was like, okay, so the hair's covering the eyebrow But in this frame the there is no what's happening. Where's his crazy eyebrow? The eyebrows the reason I'm not the biggest fan of him. It makes him look creepy. Really? Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable Oh, I love the eyebrows. No, nobody should have eyebrows like that. He does too. Yeah, exactly That's why when Sabo turned up. I was like, oh good. They got rid of the eyebrows Oh Finally, it's normal No, that's kind of fair enough because they are both very blonde characters and they both used sort of fire-based techniques Yeah, and then there was another one Robin and Boa Hancock. Yeah, but she's not Boa Hancock. I named her something else. I can't remember what it was You named him Marissa. Yes, I did Boa Hancock close enough But you couldn't tell the difference between her and Robin No the entire film and that's also fair enough because they do have a very similar character model They both have boobs and dark hair long dark hair and then there's no detail in their characters beyond that really other than one of them loves Luffy. Yeah, so that's literally the difference. One of them loves Luffy and Sanji Sabo loves the other one So for the purposes of this film you are correct. Yes There is a lot of differences between the two of them I disagree with the proper background information, which is, you know, 22 years of publication Liam, if you had told me that there was background reading to do You wouldn't have done it. I would have done some. Yeah, the first four volumes. Well, no, I've already read those I'd read the next four. Like I would at least try like if I'd known that it was- That would put you some way through the hour long arc I had absolutely no context. So if I'd had a little bit more context, it might have been better Yeah, so I was tossing up over whether or not to try and give you that kind of context But from everything I'd saw of it, I'm very glad I didn't because I don't think it would have been possible Essentially, you're asking me to explain the last 22 years of One Piece Which is what I have a channel dedicated to do. That's what I was about to say You have an entire channel. You didn't even ask me to watch some of that I've made close to 500 videos for it, and I haven't even begun to properly scratch that Liam, when did we start to decide that we were gonna go to Melbourne and watch this? A long time ago Yeah, so I could have started on 500 videos I could have at least got through all of the explaining of characters. I haven't even done a 101 for all the characters in this movie I have though. I've done a lot. You've named a lot of characters that appeared in this film Yes, I have. In fact, every time that happened, I leaned over and prodded you and said, I know that one You did. You couldn't remember what you'd named them, like Larissa, but yeah The important thing is I've seen them before and I recognize that I've seen them before So as what I'm going to call an outsider What was it like seeing these collective of crazy people together doing various things? They're five seconds. I mean, I'm sure it was great. There were maybe In fact, there was one character that for me for the entire thing I followed. I vaguely, I say vaguely I followed his thread for the entire film and I feel like the film was more about him than about anyone else Who was that? Usopp. So what struck you about Usopp? He had a three-dimensional character He did, didn't he? And that was a surprise because I didn't expect any of the straw hats to be having those kind of moments here Because the film was sold as focusing on the not-straw hats very much. Oh, okay I didn't even see trailers for this. So, you know, I literally went in with no information. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, cool No, Usopp was he's essentially the hero of the movie. He is. Yeah, I mean as far as I'm concerned Usopp is the one who defeated Bullitt. Narratively and Emotionally and practically, he was the hero Which I think is fantastic because what I've read of him in the first four volumes that I have read He's he's the best like I Interesting assessment of Usopp cut early on. You know what's really annoying to me The based on what what you've said and what I've now what I'm now learning about this is that if Usopp's the only one That is fully fleshed out like this, then I don't know if I want to keep reading. Okay So that's actually the exact opposite of what I told you I said that if you kept reading everyone else would be fleshed out in a similar manner. Okay, but they weren't in the movie No, and to be honest, I was shocked that even one of them was okay, but I it makes me wonder how Deliberate that was like did they mean to flesh out Usopp and if they didn't mean to his characters managed to come through in Like his little five second bit enough that I could still connect with it Yeah, I would say it was definitely a deliberate move and it's because of the J word juxtaposition so the main the main The main antagonist of the film Douglas bullet his he's very flat we'll talk about him in a bit But his whole thing is that he believes that he is the ultimate power on the seas and that's his main goal in life So when you've got someone who is this Ridiculously absurdly strong person I think it was a really nice contrast to essentially have him defeated by quite possibly the weakest person on the island You mean physically weakest. Yes, right. Okay, because I feel like he was probably the most tenacious and most Emotionally strong of all of them. Yeah, he recognized his flaw. Like, you know, he sees his flaw He knows his flaw. He then goes I'm flawed. I'm a big flawed person I'm the worst person to be dealing with this situation, but I'm still gonna do it And that's like that's true bravery. Like it's great to see Luffy doing his thing. But like there is no there's no excusing true bravery or no There is no excuse for bravery, there is no excuse for your bravery you will sit down holds that immediately But that's what I mean. No, you're 100% correct and that is essentially us of overall character arc throughout the series He starts out as a coward and to some extent he still remains that way throughout everything But he gradually takes steps towards becoming braver and braver and in this film when you see him standing up to Someone who wiped out the entirety of the worst generation. That's a big moment for him. Yeah, and and in fact I I forgotten what moment it was but there was a moment where he wasn't crying where he stood up and he Was having one of his very very brave moments and I cried And I was like Good old you man You did it. I'm so proud. I I don't know much about Usopp It was just from what I'd seen in the beginning where he you know deliberately been like, well, I'll just stay here I'm fine. And then he just got he immediately just did a you know a good old juxtaposition flip and Became this you know character that I'm gonna step up because nobody else can at the moment And I need to look after my captain and that's important. Yeah, exactly And I think that if you do eventually read one piece You'll find that everyone does have that moment and they do get fleshed out like that And there's more than a few stories that I think you'll definitely cry. Yeah, I mean, I'm a crier We talked about this yesterday. You are choppers is one of them Moving on Douglas bullet we talked about him briefly off to the movie, but what were your impressions I think we're very much on the same page here why bother like what what I Like this one piece is not Dragon Ball So why did they take a character from Dragon Ball and put him in one piece? I think that's a very fair assessment because when you look at the format of Stampede, it could be a Dragon Ball movie Strong guy appears all fighters gathered to fight him. They all lose eventually strong guy needs to be defeated Someone has to defeat I thought someone completely different was gonna turn out like that I was like, okay, so this guy's lost this guy's lost this guy's presumed dead this guy's lost this guy's lost this girl's lost Okay, so like once you get rid of characters like that once you defeat characters like that without them going through some kind of a Transformation you can't expect them to be able to defeat anyone It really annoyed me that any character at all Could come back from that the thing that I liked about Usopp going back to him because I'm clearly enamored is that Very early on he did he did something. I don't know if this is spoilers. Oh my god. It is well We've already spoiled it. It's already spoiled Early on he shoots. He when he shoots bullet. Yeah, he shoots and pop greens at him Looks like they do nothing and that's what I think works about that solution The problem is that they also decided they were gonna bring Luffy back and say well Luffy can do it like it No, we've he's proven that he can't do it That was the proven that there is absolutely no point in that defense That was the teamwork moment over there because Usopp's little things only activated on that heavy impact Yes, but then why did he not do that heavy impact to start with like why not start with your biggest move? He didn't he had to he had to spend two hours working up to his biggest move All right, so the thing about that biggest move is that that has never happened in the series the other King King King Kong gun Why he said it three times because it's important So there's a King Kong gun, which is essentially one of Luffy's ultimate attacks that we knew of so that Gigantic King King Kong gun was unexpected to say the least. Oh, okay. It was massive. Well. Yes. It was it was a big Gun but like because Luffy doesn't go through any real learning. He doesn't develop at all He is what I called a Mary Lou. He doesn't learn anything He doesn't change in any way shape or form the world moves around him and all of a sudden he's stronger Like it and it maybe that did happen But I didn't see it as someone on the outside It didn't it the story wasn't told to a point where I could say that happened. No, it's fair enough It's not a despite being the main character. This was not a Luffy's centric story He was just him for very much of it and in the end he had to pull out something that could defeat this staggering power Yeah, and it it wasn't overly believable. I mean it wasn't believable at all The only reason it worked is because it then was a reaction to Usopp that's the only reason it worked. Yeah What was more believable was when they had the eventual team up at the end and they were slowly chipping away at Bullets gigantic form. Yes, but then as soon as it became one-on-one Luffy versus bullet The that I had little quite a few problems with just because of how strong they'd already made him Yeah, and and the whole like This means nothing to you But they they compared his strength to a man named Silver's Ray Lee who was the first mate of the pirate king I feel like you've said this before continue cuz I've heard of Silver's you've named him before I think actually And he he's a living legend of the world like if there was a a tiered power system He would be right at the top and you know Luffy would be somewhere down here So two-thirds down just so you know to put bullet on that level and still kind of have him in his physical prime Where is Ray Lee's an old man? Like there's a lot of ground for Luffy to cover. Yeah, and it's not satisfactorily done I mean essentially what happens is you know Luffy gets a bigger attack to defeat the bigger bad guy I mean it comes down to more of a slugfest than that, but yeah still and I'm I really enjoyed I enjoyed a couple of moments with Luffy where he got slammed down and May well have been bleeding out and may well have been dead almost dead And they pick him up and they start running and then all of a sudden he's alive and using his king king gun Is the first one and then the second one is where the hell did he get those bandages? The implication is that Chopper would have treated him, but it did happen Did happen very quickly All of a sudden oh, well that is some very snappy medical attention. Yeah, well chopper's the best All right, so what was next on your list of notos? Snails were my favorite snails were the best man snails just ring ring ring ring ring ring ring It's a snail so my wife is referring to Denden mushees Which is a wonderful experience because the moment someone on screen said just contact me via the snail I was like, oh right and I specifically said don't give me context. I don't want your context I want to dream Snails the Denden mushees were also heavily featured in this film like people were communicating with them all the time And there were visual Denden mushees as well the video transponder snails What I loved about those snails is that you could immediately see who was talking on the other end Because their face looked like yes of the character. They would that's that's what I loved it That is the charm of them. I want one. They have a whole bunch of them. No, I want you want one It's like you I Can we have a house phone that is a Denden mushee? I don't see why not But yeah, the general idea is that they're shaped like whoever's speaking through them. Oh, I love it I love it so much. I think that is my new favorite device. I Just think they're fantastic. I mean, I was really what soon as I heard contact me via snail I was kind of expecting someone to like pick up a snail and put it to their ear and then just like have to deal with The slime coming off of their face like when they know Yeah, I know but I had that's where my brain We use the snail like a phone Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I love snails. They were great another thing. There was a lot of pulling out Yes, there was would you like to elaborate on what you're referring to? We're just gonna leave it that's I feel like it explains it So there was there was a lot of pulling They just like there was a whole five-minute segment where the entire point of it was we need to pull out It's time to pull out. We're pulling out pull out pull out. It's important. We need to pull out And that was the point. Yeah, that was the the segment where All of the Marines were evacuating the island because they were about to bombard themselves. Yes a bus to call that Busters Buster Buster call so that had much more of a primary role in the story than I thought it would just by seeing the trailer So Buster call is essentially one of the most dangerous things that could ever happen in the one-piece world Because it summons a fleet of ten marine battleships and they come with the purpose to destroy an entire island Okay, because it never happened. No the Buster call got called off in the end And it confused the hell out of me because I spent the entire time thinking oh Buster call That means that you know a load of Marines are gonna turn up and they really weren't that many and it was there Were a lot of Marines in this movie and they were very much Tertiary characters because we focused primarily on the pirates, but from the Marines you did see what did you think? What do you remember actually? That's probably a better question What do I remember of the Marines that I did see? Well, there were two Marines right up front as soon as we'd said Nobody can tell the Marines The Marines were already there. Cut to smoker into Shiggy dressed in pirate outfits. Cut to Marines Who were just enjoying themselves? Oh, they were undercover. Smoker does not enjoy himself He's not a man who derives enjoyment from anything. He smokes screens. He smokes two cigars at once at all times I saw that and I did wonder how he just has a very because he also liked to talk and never put his hand The physics of that I Didn't find the Marines particularly frightening I should have based on what you've just told me about Buster called like that should have been much more I should have I should have been more afraid, but I guess that's them also having their five seconds of this We can assume I think you would have felt more physically imposed if you understood Exactly who was there rather than the sheer amount of stuff that was there? Because there were two admirals out of three in this movie that were present and they are Extraordinarily powerful people one of them was the swordsman who came out of nowhere to fight Zora And the other one was yeah The guy who turned into light right at the end of the movie and who was kind of in command the entire thing Yeah, every time you know how I knew that I was missing some vital information Everyone in the audience went oh or just started applauding or what? There was a lot of people enjoyed this movie which is great They did it took them a while to get into it because we had the introduction Then a whole ton of very key people were introduced But the first time there was a massive massive cheer was a surprise moment to me And it was when Bartolomeo came on screen and he's he's not who I'd expect to have generated that first But from that moment on pretty much every renowned character that appeared got that applause or got that Moment who's Bartolomeo Bartolomeo is Essentially a Luffy fanboy. So you may have seen his ship in the movie. It's called the going Luffy Senpai Mm-hmm. I remember his enthusiasm. Yeah, I remember these fanboys. There were a lot of fan ships There was a unicorn one as well. Oh, that was Cavendish here So they are both members of the straw hat grand fleet Wait what they have a fleet. Yeah, like a non consensual fleet Luffy doesn't approve of it But they all when you said when you said non consensual I was gonna be like wait what and then I realized it was the other way It's not him abusing power. It's him not wanting power and being ignored Yeah, exactly. So essentially all of these captains came and offered him their services and he was just like I don't want it They're like we're gonna do it anyway. Hooray, but the other straw hats are absolutely fine with using this in this information Yeah, absolutely, right. Yeah Bartolomeo is so much more popular than I ever thought he was I think it's just because he is essentially the fans. All right, let's go through your notes. So let's keep going through what you've got panda man There were several panda man sightings possibly even panda men plural not at the same time not at the same time They were different they seem to be different than the art style They were different incarnations of panda man So panda man doesn't always appear as the same like muscular panda dude every time right? That's his established form There was a skinny one with a pink shirt. Yes And there was like the one that I've seen in in the books and there was another one that was just I only saw the head But I was like panda there were an awful lot of panda man sightings in this film In fact pretty much any time I'd say there was a giant crowd scene There was something to be looking at you wouldn't know what you were looking for But there were characters in this movie that have appeared all throughout that 91 volumes that were just like sprinkled in here And there in very odd places usually group scenes you say usually group scenes Yes, usually like it was a big pirate festival. I could well. I mean that's the point all the pirates turn up It's the point I do wish we had a bit more of the festival Disagree with that. I Funnily enough one of my notes says the first 20 minutes or so weren't the most interesting thing ever because the movie felt slow to start like I just I mean I what I wanted wasn't even necessarily more story But I wanted to spend more time on those moments like if you're gonna enjoy the festival I want to see more of you enjoying the festival I mean more of the festival like in film gold half of the movie was the straw hats arrive on Grand Tazora And they have fun in the casino and they do all sorts of crazy crap But all of the time at the festival was kind of covered in the montage of the opening And then it was like immediately into you know the rush for Roger's treasure. That's what I mean So I think we mean the same thing. Yeah, I think we're seeing it differently I agree with that and I because to me the movie felt very much like it just threw you into the deep end Immediately. Yes. It had a nice well through you up into the island and immediately. Yes on a knockup stream Which is the thing that happened. Yes in the series It's like every almost everything in this movie is a callback to something that's actually happened, right? Okay, so assuming that everything is a callback their hope was that everyone that turned up to see this movie has read the Entire thing. Yep read or watched or at least they have enough of a general knowledge to take enough from it look Why couldn't this movie Have been more like Serenity in Serenity Firefly was like what 8-10 episodes something like that like they didn't they didn't get renewed But all of the fans from that movie when they start from that series when they saw the movie They could connect with it and people that haven't seen the movie could still connect I actually saw Serenity before Firefly And you enjoyed Serenity enough to watch Firefly on the series. Yes But Serenity as big as it was compared to Firefly as a series. It was still a condensed story It was about that crew of people which is the whole stampede was not about you know one crew people I guess it was about Here is the entire span of one piece. I will take that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that That gonna smush you together and it's gonna be fun They tried to take 20 years worth of world and put it into one movie 22 and no they didn't actually left out So so much. I mean yeah, they left out so so much but like every two minutes. There was an applause So there were times on every minute or so it just seemed like and you're here and you're here and you too There were bits of story those two minutes. I'm getting on average. There were bits of story. Yes, most of it It's very action-heavy. Yeah It was look it's exhausting like that's tiring. It's tiring after a while I agree tired of watching people punch other people. I enjoyed the Luffy punching a guy and getting and then bullet getting out of the way and the two guys punching each other I really enjoyed that one. Yeah, that was when Luffy punched kid, which is good fun Yeah, yeah, I don't know like I I feel like the scope of the movie was too large for what they wanted like what sorry What they were trying to do the length of the movie didn't cover it or What they tried to do was too big and ill-defined, which is a big call to make 22 years of fiction. I'm really sorry. That's not what I meant I enjoyed the movie. It was very ambitious like to take it back to the Infinity War comparison that film is worth three hours long Yeah, and it has a lot of action in it But it has its moments of break where it progresses a story and it really takes its time to build up to an eventual ending Yes, this didn't do that. This was Just under two hours. Yeah, it was short. I was expecting it to be longer than it was. It was quite short I mean yeah animated movies Japan money It was it was a bit of an ask But I think if you're a one-piece fan, you do not care if you're a one-piece fan as you could tell by the audience reaction Yeah, if you're a one-piece fan, you're getting what you want And it's I mean it's like when we go to see, you know Dragonball movies that I understood like suddenly I understand that because I know that culture I know that I have that history so but even then like when we go to see Dragonball movies I'm like it's just punch punch punch punch punch punch lots of punch Look he's stronger now winning like except for the Brawley, but he's but they've never the Brawley move But even then it was just punch punch punch punch eventually But that was like half an hour of solid story before you go to the punch punch You know, I'm a big fan of story And I think we both are given that we work in storytelling. Yeah, my job is to tell a story and I really Find that the to be the most important thing So even in a movie that is designed to sum up, you know A whole world and give people into that world not summarise definitely not summarise It makes no intention to try and explain things to you. It's more you understand this world Here's a big what-if scenario Yeah I I feel like the scope of the what-if was too big then for someone No without that as a movie if you're judging it as a film I said this in my reviews. It's it has a lot of problems from a pure filmmaking standpoint Yeah, it's not a satisfying film, but it is to me a satisfying experience. Yeah, I mean I sat there happily I didn't fall asleep and But that's a big thing for me. I didn't fall asleep like I'm I work in theater I flew directly from Perth to Sydney then to Melbourne to see this movie I was working on like, I don't know four or five hours of sleep over 48 hours and I Stayed away. Like I that's I think that's the biggest praise I can give it really to be entirely honest with you is the fact that I'm still conscious You know what I'm like with movies. I know she's awful. I hate going to movies with you Yeah You know, I hate going to movies with me too. I'm also there That's true. You'd never get a break from it. I don't get a break All right, so what else did you take away from this the art style it took me a moment to click in But I really loved it. It's been so long since I've seen art that looks like it was entirely hand-drawn I don't know if it was hand-drawn and obviously bullet absolutely not nothing to do with him was hand-drawn nothing to do with his Powers his CGI devil fruit stuff. No, no, but I mean the second he powered up I will say that was not hand-drawn because of the lines too strong So what you're referring to with powering up would be like his burst of conquerors hockey which if you're not familiar with The series does look like he's just going Super Saiyan and then Luffy goes Super Saiyan in response. I mean Yes, we've already talked about Dragon Ball Z It's it's more complicated than that Not actually got one of the biggest cheers of the night I think when Luffy fought back with his own conquerors hockey the blue versus red bit Yeah, it gets depicted in different ways But to pick different art styles, but that was when I leaned over and said Yeah, you're actually you said that to me and I was like, you know what that's what it looks like to you Yes, yes Except it's not they don't power up when they do that. No, they just give each other deathly stares And they use their energy To push yeah Congress hockey is more like imposing your will on someone else So if I exude my will over you like that and if you're not strong enough you will crumble Which is why so many people just fainted in that moment. I understand It's sort of like how I'm the pack leader and when I see Basil the dog He goes and sits on his bed because I've imposed my will and that tells him that he has to go and submit Yes, actually why not? That's not bad. It's not a bad enough. I am Analogies speaking of the um Well, we weren't actually speaking of this at all But the other villain in the movie Buena Festa if you even remember him the Bon the good Festival man the festival the reason why the the Marines turned up at all the reason why anything happened in the reason why anything happened I I don't understand This is this is the point where I didn't understand why I don't I don't know why he bothered to do it I don't know why he was doing it at all. Yes. So I get his motivation. It's It's a bit of a stretch But basically his whole thing was that he organized parties and that he was known as the biggest Event organizer festival organizer. Yeah, but then he was overshadowed by Roger whose death started the great age of piracy, which he saw as the greatest event to have ever Happened in the world. So he wanted to top that. I Understand it as motivation. I think it's quite unique actually. I still don't like him I I think The movie could have done with either fleshing him out more or just less of him the fact that I Didn't understand his motivation at all tells me everything I He was I Don't know what to say about him like he just Seemed air like I didn't he didn't have a story to me He just kept turning up and being like I'm evil for no real reason Yeah, I'm gonna do this thing and I'm gonna do this thing and he was just trying to he spent most of the film either Sitting in his evil headquarters or standing overlooking the battle Yes happening. Yeah, and in fact, I think what could have been shown even more or what would have shown that shown his dislike of being overshadowed even more would have been What was green head girls name? You're referring to an Yes, and the girl who makes the image image illusion girl She If like if every time she took his microphone from him, he'd had more than a comical response I think I probably would have understood that motivation more Interesting, so you're confusing Buena Festa with the announcer. I think oh Yeah, Buena Festa was the Afro guy who organized the festival. You're thinking of I think his name was Donald moderate Just introducing all the people in the initial Section, okay. No, that's another two characters that look the same to me in my head You know what there were a lot of characters. I'll give you that I got confused, but that's okay Speaking of Anne actually we discussed her briefly afterwards as well And you I think lent over to me as soon as they explained her devil fruit powers the Bijou Bijou know me And you said well that's going to be important That's a plot point and I agreed completely and it wasn't really No, it was what it did and it took me a while to actually figure this out And we had to talk until I saw even actually talk about it. I know the answer. I gave to you is not the right one At the end, you know when the two like walls of flames come out to separate all the pirate ships from the marine ships So they were sent out by Sabo who you thought was Sanji Not by that point, but okay, and when that blast happened Did you notice that there were two figures standing there and then one of them eventually disappeared? No, I don't remember seeing that at all it was a brief moment but Essentially when those walls of flames happened you saw Sabo and you saw a standing there and so Ace is one of Luffy's brothers who is dead currently Okay, and ace then he's sorry and Sabo then ate ace's previous double fruit You just buy he has fire powers. You can eat someone else. Do they poop it out when they die or something? What happens? This is a piece of context I don't have without going into explaining too much of one piece once a devil fruit user dies That fruit gets reincarnated into the world, right? Okay That's probably a cleaner way of doing it than thinking they poop out seeds and those seeds grow and the fruit comes Probably you know it take it up with Oda. Maybe that's another possibility, but I'm helping but to bring this back around Yes, yes, that was Anne's entire purpose. She generated that illusion of ace Sabo's request because Sabo went up to her and he was like can you make this man appear? But you didn't see who it was But why would why would they do that to give the obvious answer? The reason why they did it is because they wanted to put ace in the movie. Yeah, but he's dead. Thanks That's all I needed if you wanted to Constru it into a narrative reason. It's because Sabo wanted to maybe send a message to Luffy. Hey, dude, our bro's here Something like that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, cool. I mean, it's okay They fit another character in with five seconds. They did and it once again It also got one of the biggest cheers of the night because a lot of people are race fans Oh, oh, we haven't talked about we haven't talked about oh, what's his name? But I know him because he's in the first four volumes buggy. Yes Yes, it was great seeing him animated. He was great Sorry if there are two characters other than the snails in the entire thing that I really loved It was Usopp and buggy buggy was fantastic buggy had a fully fleshed character. I understood all of his motivations I understood everything I understood how much he hated being called like lesser. I Understood everything about him and I loved him buggy is he's a fan favorite. He's actually Otis favorite character Which is why he keeps popping up in the series over and over again. He's just brilliant He's one of those people who fails upwards. Yeah, so he keeps finding himself in positions of more and more power Yeah, he looks like the cut the time. It's like he failed again promote him promote that man I think he was very necessary because like I said before this film is very action-heavy One piece as a product is not that focused on action It has a strong balance between that drama and comedy and buggy was apart from a few moments with Brooke I think one of the only real sources of decent comedy. Yes throughout the film. Yeah, I feel like Brooke didn't get enough I mean he farted that one time That was in the first 10 minutes. It was. I was really happy that it happened, but it didn't happen again I wanted more farting and I wanted him to talk more from his farts I know that that's contextually not actually what was happening But it seemed very much like he farted and then all of a sudden he left his own body Was farting around Looking at things and I wish I had a power that allowed me to fart and then pee around corners with it I mean I can see where you've constructed this thought from it was only the second time that it happened that I didn't that I realized it had nothing to do with the part and the part was just there Essentially Brooke has the power to have his soul leave his body so that he can look around for a bit He's a skeleton that makes sense So that's yeah, that's what you thought was a far cloud. Yes, and I was genuinely Slightly concerned when it came back in through his mouth But I was willing to accept it because one piece is weird. Yeah, so it's an interesting point though Most of the straw hats didn't get a lot of focus just because you couldn't do it Yeah, I think the primary three Luffy's or a Sanji they all got there their big actiony moments Who's up got his nice moment other than that everyone else was pretty neglected. Yeah Frankie in particular I think as well the character that you've got existed. Yeah looking at the badges Yeah, yeah, I mean he got them up to the top of the island He did and he had how he did it general Frankie came out very briefly as well, but you turn them into a penguin Yeah, he turned the thousand sunny into an emperor penguin model so it could fly despite the fact that I was about to say Penguins don't fly cool One piece is weird Your conclusion that I won't know it's my that's my like, you know in the same way as you just go This is D&D one piece is weird like it's the same. I get it I get that it's just this is this is a thing now like in this world Emperor penguins probably fly some penguins can or more importantly Frankie perceives that they can therefore they can Yeah, I think a lot of it's to do more with Frankie's imagination Which you know tells me a lot about his character as an imaginative guy. I like that. He's very fun I think you'll very much enjoy him when you get to experience him a bit more Maybe I should take one or two of these volumes with me on tour Finish it so quickly though, and then I'll need the next one. I won't have it You just post me one every week and I'll post for me. I'm hosting you anything. Just take a bunch of them Oh, yeah, but to conclude buggy great love buggy very essential for the movie Good highlight, especially I don't know if you picked this up But in like the final clash where the whole group of them are assaulting bullet. He accidentally gets caught up in it Yes, because of a devil fruit ability that you don't understand. It takes all of them He just happens to be there and he's like the fuck is happening. Yes. I saw him look very afraid And I was like, I don't know how you got here, but you're here now That's buggy that's his character and I appreciated that Yeah, I appreciated it because he was one of the few characters that did actually get a repeat if I were to summarize the entire movie and Cast it from just the important characters. I Would say you need Luffy to punch bullet. You need bullet because bullet I need bullet to be punched by Luffy. You need Usopp because he is the story It's a very paid-back film at the moment You need Buena Festa, but you only need him in so far as he had the idea You could trade him out for the other guy that I got confused with Don't know Donald moderate. You could theoretically you could combine those two make the one character Theoretically, I don't see why you couldn't make him bullet as well. Have it be his idea. Yeah, exactly I don't know why bullet existed there at all like it could have been like because everyone from what I understand all of the larger Characters work worked with the king the king question mark Pirate King Pirate King. Yes. Why the this is something that I really wish would have been expanded on because the idea that bullet was part of Roger's crew is actually Incredibly massive, but it sounded like someone also said oh, but buggy was part of that crew. Yes, he was part of Roger's crew He was which means they knew each other, but there was no no image of no reflect buggy recognized him at first He was like shit. He's here. Yeah, but didn't care Oh, he cared because he was shitting himself Yes, yes, he does oh But what I really wanted to know is his bullet seems very out of place for someone on the pirate King's crew from the Very little that we know of those people so does buggy I guess but I I just don't believe that he was part of that crew bullet that is but bullet had a series of flashbacks very short flashbacks Which suggests that he was a different person before some critical event So maybe he would have fit into the crew better if he'd been from what I gathered in the flashbacks after having only Seen this once he crafted a massacre on his island because of some sort of injustice Yeah, he then went on a rampage where he was stopped by Roger the first person he met who was stronger than him Yes, and from that bullet got excited about that challenge and then joined the crew that way somehow Yeah, and when Roger died he lost that and went back to his former self which makes sense So when buggy knew him he probably wasn't the same as what he is now or what he was before which means, you know Yes buggy could freak out, but it would make sense why he wouldn't freak out as much Yeah, it's hard to tell because obviously none of this is canon So it's very despite the really huge Implications that it does have like the log pose to Raftel and everything which was romanized as Laftel That's very interesting for us because it's always been spelt in the manga as Raftel Yeah, actually we haven't spoken about that at all the treasure the driving force of the film. Oh my god. I got so angry During that whole freaking thing. You know why I got angry Liam because I know Luffy is stretchy He could have shot himself to the top of it and we would not have had to deal with any of this crap Why did he wait? He's just like I'm going to run. Oh, I'm just going to keep running because he was having fun He's on an adventure. No, but then as soon as someone else gets it. He's like, oh wait. No, this is serious It just it annoyed me You know his lots of people and he also wasn't wearing his hat for the majority of the movie Yeah, he was he was just wearing another hat over it for the beginning part Like it's one of the only things I know about the character I want to see the damn hat his whole story in the first four volumes is predicated on that Yes, you need to read beyond that But the idea of the treasure just while we're on that I did really enjoy the moment and I knew it was gonna happen where Luffy just Smashed the eternal pose and went no, I don't want this thus ruining everything for everyone else as well Yeah, way to be killed at good dude. It's such a loofy thing to do because in the end He's not so much after the one piece as he is after the adventure to get it So like there has been an opportunity in the series for him to learn what the one piece was and he just outright refused Because it would ruin it He's a freaking teenage kid like He's that annoying gamer who is like, you know what? I don't want to win I just want to make sure you don't win. No, no, no, it's not about that It's so he wants the adventure. Okay, and he doesn't want anything to potentially ruin the adventure So he's deliberately Extending the game like that time we played unicorn unstable unicorns Everyone became chaotic. It's not like that He's in the right frame of mind because he's trying to very end of the movie where you see Roger going What the hell you made an eternal pose? It's like, yeah It's drawing parallels to that and how you know, you can't just cheat to become the pirate king You need to find it yourself. Yeah, you have to you have to be The most moral pirate Maybe possibly he's trying to he's trying to show his own Brand of morals like there is a way to become the pirate king There is another way not to become the pirate king having the one piece doesn't make you a pirate king Getting there. It makes you the pie. He's after the journey. He's after the journey It's all about the journey not about, you know rushing to get there. All right So final thoughts for all of the pulling apart that I've done my Thoughts are that someone that knows that the story will enjoy it because if nothing else you see all of these characters that you only normally Would see in a book Animated and that that's a huge that's a huge thing for people as long as they don't you know suddenly have been like Hermione issue There's also no circumstance in the series where you ever see them all together. Yeah Yeah, at most you'd see a handful of them at a time Yeah, because you know the world keeps spinning everyone else is doing their own thing. Yeah, and While but that makes it problematic for me as well because if that's what you're doing then like you want to see everyone else's reaction to everyone else It's like, you know the awkward dinner party like I I just I Know that this just adds to cost of the movie cost of filmmaking and like there's a lot of Reasons why you wouldn't bother because you don't need to because obviously the fans love it anyway no matter what comes out They just soak it all up just to see reactions between people. There was no time for reactions between people Which was really interesting Sarah a lot of people I would say in the worst generation in particular who have particular vendettas against each other That just did not come across because there was no time for it Yeah, and that's that's something everyone has a very specific relationship with any of these other given characters And it was yeah, they just kind of got mushed together. They weren't there. There was no there was no There was no specificities for the movie I know that there was probably a heap of story specific things that happened But they were so loosely connected that even with you giving me all this context. I just find more holes You know what it is What it seems to me is it's kind of like a glorified fanfiction. Yes, someone has sat down They've gone I want all of these characters in my story and I'm going to make it happen Yes, that's exactly what it feels like, which was a lot of fun. It was very well done fan fiction Yes, beautifully animated. I mean it was technically official Fiction a fiction of one piece and the story was there like if there was a story I came out feeling like I'd learned something. It's not a representation of one piece is what I would say no It's it's really weird. I don't think I've any I've seen anything quite like it before in one piece But that is also what makes it an experience for me anyway because I've never seen anything like that before So it was a hell of a lot of fun and if you're a fan, you will have fun I guarantee it and if you're not a fan To the people that may or may not have actually, you know been taken along by their partners or you know in exchange for delicious goods I don't remember promising that delicious goods You will enjoy it and you but you'll enjoy it because the atmosphere around you the cult the actual culture of one piece is Phenomenal like it was normally I feel quite uncomfortable sitting in crowds of people that are passionate about things because it me too The the energy can quickly turn negative and in a group in a large group of people And if that energy turns negative, then you have a big problem on your hands And the only time it did that was when the cursor appeared on screen. Yes I mean like you that's why that was such an important moment because I was like, oh Okay, you guys got to fix this now. This is gonna be fixed now because there's gonna be a problem Like it's just it's a tiny cursor The the the important thing out of that is the energy on the whole for one piece is so Mild like normally a lot of people together high energy Usually like this sounds stupid, but like it could the energy can seem like really sharp and disjointed and like even though It's positive like we want this now. This is great. This has to be great the whole way through whereas for this It was like we are generally on a positive ride and we're generally enjoying it. It was like Going through it's a small world instead of like going on a huge roller coaster of energy in the room Yeah, and once again, I'll bring that back to the Luffy theory. It's about enjoying the adventure Yeah, and most people who are a one-piece fan are very much on board with that Yeah, well, they have to be or they wouldn't stay and I I appreciated that and so, you know what I'm gonna say Thank you audience. You made this comfortable and enjoyable for someone that doesn't normally know all particularly enjoy One piece like not that I dislike it. I just haven't found my enjoyment of it So thank you for that because that is the culture that you guys all bring together and that's a big thing That's my final thought The thought is Very good, I think I was a pretty decent summation and a nice compliment to everyone watching at the moment Yeah, very nicely sent and strategically done life. Thanks. 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