Speaking of the live action One Piece adaptation, what did everyone think of how they handled Arlong? They turned him into a Killmonger type character (Fishmonger? ) where he was mostly a mean sadistic gangster with a disdain for humans in the original arc. The manga did establish the oppression faced by fishpeople in depth later on and even gave a backstory to why Arlong and his gang in particular hated humans, but in the Netflix show he was kind of doing a speech in every scene he was in.
I'm glad they're incorporating things Oda established later on in these early parts but I kind of felt this was once again a situation where the one character using revolutionary language is a violent murderous psychopath
I guess Arlong's new revolutionary ambitions didn't quite mesh with his previously established role as some asshole shaking down a hapless backwater village for protection money
Also, an unrelated note- what did he need the Grand Line map for? He's from there Same goes for Buggy who's already been there. I know they just used the map as a way to tie the first season together and it's not a massive deal, but still
Without going back to the manga to check I don't remember the map as important in it. They needed one to get up the mountain but it wasn't this larger overarching plot element. Not saying it's bad or anything, much like with the Garp thing they probably did it to give the first season some structure so it wasn't just "Luffy and co. bumble from one island to the next and beat up random bad guys"
Yeah, that bit stood out to me too. I wasn't familiar with the anime or manga, but people here usually talk about it being based. So I was pretty surprised that it felt like they were poisoning the well on revolutionaries.
Speaking of the live action One Piece adaptation, what did everyone think of how they handled Arlong? They turned him into a Killmonger type character (Fishmonger?
) where he was mostly a mean sadistic gangster with a disdain for humans in the original arc. The manga did establish the oppression faced by fishpeople in depth later on and even gave a backstory to why Arlong and his gang in particular hated humans, but in the Netflix show he was kind of doing a speech in every scene he was in.
I'm glad they're incorporating things Oda established later on in these early parts but I kind of felt this was once again a situation where the one character using revolutionary language is a violent murderous psychopath
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I guess Arlong's new revolutionary ambitions didn't quite mesh with his previously established role as some asshole shaking down a hapless backwater village for protection money
Also, an unrelated note- what did he need the Grand Line map for? He's from there
Same goes for Buggy who's already been there. I know they just used the map as a way to tie the first season together and it's not a massive deal, but still
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Without going back to the manga to check I don't remember the map as important in it. They needed one to get up the mountain but it wasn't this larger overarching plot element. Not saying it's bad or anything, much like with the Garp thing they probably did it to give the first season some structure so it wasn't just "Luffy and co. bumble from one island to the next and beat up random bad guys"
Yeah, that bit stood out to me too. I wasn't familiar with the anime or manga, but people here usually talk about it being based. So I was pretty surprised that it felt like they were poisoning the well on revolutionaries.