You know, given his capital-A Anxiety about wasting food, traveling with a human garbage disposal like Luffy is actually the best thing that could happen for Sanji. Means he can experiment and play around with stuff like he clearly wants to without worrying, because if it turns out bad (by 'bad' i mostly mean 'not up to his exacting standards,' but also if it's genuinely, terribly bad), Luffy will eat it (and enjoy it!) anyway. Gives him some room to fail - and I think he needs it.
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Omg part 3 of screenshots from Episode 5! For Part 1: Link; and part 2: Link
Okay, so I have way too many screenshots from this episode, but I'm limiting to a few of my favourite scenes, and no more than 3 posts.
Something else in this episode which I love: Luffy's habits show here. He crawls on the seat to make space, he asks for milk, he also talks about his treasure tab, which is both endearing and makes me sad when I remember the first time we fully understand what it means to Luffy.
More cast chemistry: that conversation at the end before the Zoro and Mihawk fight is wonderful. Luffy actually listens to Nami first, until he realises the importance of what Zoro is doing and why. Luffy will always support someone's dream. Even though in this episode we also see how hard that can be.
I love that we get at least one scene of Sanji smoking. I'm a non-smoker and would have been fine if it wasn't included - for the actor's health, of course - so it's a cool reference to be able to see it minimally included in the live action! (This is the same feeling I had for when we see Luffy picking his nose in episode 1. We only see it once in the whole season, but that's such an iconic manga reference!)
Oh, I took the other screenshot out (it wasn't a good one), but I've included the other one: the scene of Luffy dropping plates that he washed. Now, the live action minimalises it, but if it had happened like the manga scene... Luffy would never leave Baratie with the amount of dishes he broke! But still, I loved that little scene.
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Some OPLA Thoughts: Episode 5
Wow.
My post about the last episode started off with how Zoro's backstory (the portrayal of Kuina particularly) was the first thing in this adaptation to seriously disappoint me... Only to immediately follow that up with the best episode so far. I don't think I have anything negative to say about this one.
We've finally started to see that other side to Garp that I was worried had been edited out of the live action completely. That wilder, goofier side when confronted with his grandson as a pirate for the first time. That grayer portrayal of morality in this universe, when he and Koby talk about the Warlords.
I found it really interesting that Koby was so betrayed by the concept of the Warlords. I mean, I also think that's the right response, but it really hasn't been made clear yet in the live action that the World Government is super corrupt. Honestly-- I'm pretty sure I mentioned this in my post about the first or second episode-- they even toned down how much of a tyrant Morgan was. The anime made it really clear that the people of the town were just as scared of Morgan as they were of any potential pirates his unit was supposed to be protecting them from. In the live action, it could be read that Helmeppo was just an errant bad apple.
And speaking of! He's finally starting to come around. It's a prickly sort of friendship that he's building with Koby... but they are noticeably talking more-- and saying more. Those conversations aren't all insults and then stalking away in a huff like they have been up to this point. I didn't mention it in my last post, but Helmeppo had a line that really stuck out to me in episode four. It's still all argument about how they should be handling their duties in Syrup Village, but he's let his guard down enough to admit that he is jealous of the shine Garp's taken to Koby.
What stood out in this episode was his line about how Koby doesn't know shit about how the world works-- in reference to his disbelief about how the Government handles the Warlords. I was kind of ridiculing that... and kind of not. My immediate, knee-jerk reaction was along the lines of, "Really? Pampered, spoiled Helmeppo is going to lecture the boy who spent his childhood enslaved on a pirate ship about the harsh realities of the world?"
But you know... That is a really interesting angle to take. That being the son of a high-ranking Navy captain, maybe Helmeppo has seen some of the injustices of how the World Government runs first-hand, and it would be great if that's what these two bond over in the live action.
Sanji's introduction has been great so far-- his fight scene looked fantastic-- and we haven't even gotten into the really hard-hitting stuff with his backstory with Zeff yet.
There were some interesting changes... but nothing that left me feeling uneasy about how it might impact the story as whole. I really hope they leave the whole issue with Don Krieg as the abridged version that it is right now. Honestly, that whole ordeal was really tedious to me in the original.
I love that Nami was around for Zoro's duel in this version. (Though maybe a little disappointed that Sanji wasn't. I felt like witnessing that was a pretty major moment in him starting to understand what this insane crew is really all about.)
And Mihawk... Steven John Ward's portrayal of Mihawk is everything I was promised it would be. Really stole the show this episode.
The fight with Zoro was amazing. But also just his overall demeanor... and they gave him the best lines! Like, obviously the "I don't hunt rabbits with a cannon" one comes to mind-- in regards to only using that tiny knife against Zoro. But also, I loved his interaction with Luffy. The little, "Though I do like your hat" was such a great nod to his friendship(?) with Shanks... All of his moments were just so good.
I saw an interview with his actor where he talked about the secrecy behind the audition process-- how he didn't even know what role he was auditioning for until he got it. And how his response was to immediately call up his friends who are anime fans and ask them just how bad it would be if he fucked this up. XD
Which is exactly the response I would want. Any time I've had concerns about this show, it's always been about the writing. (And nothing too major has been messed up yet.) I've got no complaints about the acting. Everyone has killed their roles so far and brought exactly the energy to the table necessary to make this something special.
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Zoro: let's play a drinking game where we get to know each other better and loredump on our backstories
Me, a Critter: oh, they're playing What the Fuck is Up With That!
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