One Piece Episode 480

[Sentenal]

I can't really blame them for stretching it out, because there haven't really been any opportunities for them to stick in any filler arcs between where the anime is, and where the manga is now (unless they pull an lol-bleach-filler arc). Because there aren't really any places for them to cram the filler into, they have to spread it among the episodes. For anime only watchers, it is probably annoying, but for manga readers, alot of this is just manga stuff+extra material/filler (I won't complain if I get more stuff added like extra Smoker fighting, but some of the stuff like the Hancock gags are just too much).

[Endrance]

I get why they stretch things, but I don't get why they're not to be blamed. Sure, it might be clever financially, but that still makes the anime worse. And I don't see nothin of that money, so from my position I blame them for creating garbage out of good material and insulting my intelligence. It's not just annoying, it makes the credibility of the plot suffer real bad. And that's never a good thing. This shit happens so often, especially in the gaming genre and I for one am getting annoyed by that quantity over quality attitude. Though as I said, it happened before in One Piece and didn't have the impact it had in the Whitebeard war arc. Alot of shit went wrong here.

@UChessmaster: Come again? Nobody cares about pathetic wannabe troll phrases. If you can't even troll properly, then shut the fuck up yourself and stick your head in a can of ice water to cool down a little. See? I can do that, too. It's not even hard. I've also never claimed that any of you ever said something positive about stretching (although I'd believe you at least implied it at some point to defend your favorite anime if someone told me). Where did you get that from?
You should learn your place. Members do not have the license of telling other members how to act. All I do is discuss, even if you might call it bitching, because you disagree for the sake of disagreeing. What you do is far more destructive, as all you do in one post is aggressive flaming. I can go along without that, but you apparently cannot. Some teasing here and there is fine, but you're just being pathetic. Getting too focused on personal matters in a discussion forum might get you a warning or even a ban, you know.

[Sentenal]

I get why they stretch things, but I don't get why they're not to be blamed. Sure, it might be clever financially, but that still makes the anime worse. And I don't see nothin of that money, so from my position I blame them for creating garbage out of good material and insulting my intelligence. It's not just annoying, it makes the credibility of the plot suffer real bad. And that's never a good thing. This shit happens so often, especially in the gaming genre and I for one am getting annoyed by that quantity over quality attitude. Though as I said, it happened before in One Piece and didn't have the impact it had in the Whitebeard war arc. Alot of shit went wrong here.

@UChessmaster: Come again? Nobody cares about pathetic wannabe troll phrases. If you can't even troll properly, then shut the fuck up yourself and stick your head in a can of ice water to cool down a little. See? I can do that, too. It's not even hard. I've also never claimed that any of you ever said something positive about stretching (although I'd believe you at least implied it at some point to defend your favorite anime if someone told me). Where did you get that from?
You should learn your place. Members do not have the license of telling other members how to act. All I do is discuss, even if you might call it bitching, because you disagree for the sake of disagreeing. What you do is far more destructive, as all you do in one post is aggressive flaming. I can go along without that, but you apparently cannot. Some teasing here and there is fine, but you're just being pathetic. Getting too focused on personal matters in a discussion forum might get you a warning or even a ban, you know.

Then there must be no possible way to win with you. If you don't have any opportunities to add in filler arcs (like in this case), you either have to stretch it out, or you catch up to the manga. One can have its effects mitigated to an extent, the other is disastrous. Its the nature of the beast with anime adaptations of still-running manga. Why should we blame the anime for taking the less disastrous route? Then again, I'm arguing with a master troll who succeeded in turning a Bleach episode discussion into a FF7 discussion, so maybe I should just cut my losses here and stop.