Although I don't have great reason to speculate this, I feel that Law is as headstrong as Luffy is. The way he saved Luffy at Marineford or flipped off kid or his general determined and self guiding path all make me feel that. Like he’s the type of guy to do the impossible and not give up, generally one not to show weakness. Like I said, this is not substantiated in any real way yet but it's just a feeling I have when I watch him. Obviously there is a huge contrasting difference between both of them which can even be seen in their poses and clothing and voices. That is, Luffy is an explosive ball of energy doing what he feels in the moment regardless of the consequences, and Law is incredibly calculated, subdued, and serious. I admit that Law can be a little frustrating to me, I once described him as trying too hard to be cool, but I don't know anything about him so who am I to say that, I just like expressive characters and truthfully I even find the fact that he is so edgy quite charming. Anyways, on to this episodes Law related stuff. His role here has become clearer, will the missing crew and “something to get back” I had assumed Caesar had taken them in some form. Yet that no longer appears to be the case, he showed up here unexpectedly and made a deal with Caesar using some secret knowledge about Joker. The reason, because this island is connected to the government and he wants free reign to roam around it. Paired with this we know that he “kissed government ass” to become a warlord despite how out of character that seems. This doesn't answer too many questions, as Law being a warlord means he should be able to easily protect his crew from the government and perhaps this has nothing to do with them after all. But this is still deeply tied to them with Vegapunk’s laboratory and island being investigated, becoming a warlord, and working for Vegapunk's former second-in-command.
There’s something so charming about having three incredibly strong and neutral forces going around this island at the same time to fulfil their own goals, all with different levels of knowledge on the subject. I love the Smoker-Law-Luffy circle.
I wasn't expecting the Yeti Brothers to attack so quickly to the point that Luffy was able to detect them and see the smoke from afar. I was wondering about why Scotch went out of his way to play the recording to Brownbeard and then asked if he was Brownbeard, but after they took Nami-Franky for being a Vegapunk style robot, and then said let's have fun with this hunt it became more clear. I think these two have a lot of fun being intimidating and scary forces and hunting down their prey. It is shocking that they took down Zoro and Brook especially because we've seen Zoro cut cannonballs in midair, and I can't imagine a few of those would have taken them down. It may have been a surprise attack, and a great one, but I think there was definitely more to it than that. As for Luffy losing track of them, it showed their sniping skills are great even when they're stylishly skiing and they caught him off guard. Despite how fast these two are I think Luffy could keep track of them with haki or even gear second and keep up, I just think he wasn't ready for it. Overall, I find them very very cool, the way they reach in like monsters, or the way that these huge beastly guys can move around so silently that people don't even realize they are in the room, their voices, that skiing and sniping combo, I like these two. And we certainly can presume they will have funny faces when we do see them.
Lastly, Brownbeard. I and I assume many others realized that as soon as Caesar's true intentions came out many of his soldiers would turn on him. I had not expected it to occur this quickly though, assuming Brownbeard is not dead he did seem to have the loyalty of his centaur brothers and could change their minds. Seeing his perspective of Caesar as a savior made it absolutely clear why some of his soldiers are so indebted to him. As sick as it is that he is the one that paralyze them, he showed up like a savior and gave them hope in their lives. He was their hero. I presume it is purely an act, that he is excellent at acting kind despite having no empathy whatsoever, yet it still gave me this dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde vibe. I do doubt that has any merit as he has only been cruel when he’s been alone and never shown a good act whatsoever though. |