Live action One Piece
Our lives continue to be fairly uneventful and full of watching Miraculous. I briefly mentioned yesterday that we also started watching the new live-action One Piece series on Netflix. We've seen two episodes so far. It seems to be very well made, but I do have some questions about the premise.
Like, I don't know if it was different in the manga, but is there really a need for a map to the Grand Line? Apparently it goes all the way around the world, so if you pick literally any direction, you should run into it eventually...wait, you could pick a direction that's parallel to the Grand Line, but then you'd run into the other thing that goes around the world (forgot what it's called), and then you can just follow that to where they intersect.
Still, if you're worried about picking the wrong direction, couldn't you just use a compass? Nami has a bunch of navigation tools, surely one of them could help her figure out which way would go towards the Grand Line and not parallel to it.
Also apparently the Grand Line has bigger islands and bigger cities...which supposedly makes it more dangerous, but to have cities there would have to be people living in those cities, which means there must be some degree of safety, or those people wouldn't have survived. Are they all being oppressed like the people under Alvida and Buggy? (Which brings up the question of how exactly do they define "pirate" in this series? Because so far, except for Shanks and his crew, they've all seemed pretty darn evil, so why would you want to be one? Can't someone be a freelancing seafarer who doesn't pillage and plunder and destroy people's lives?)
But most of all, if "the Grand Line" is the only clue Gold Roger left for the location of his treasure...well, then I think all the pirates better be hoping to find Gold Roger's first mate or something, because they're going to need some more details. Sheesh, the idea of searching the entire equator for hidden treasure... Maybe it's not hidden, though? Like, if you can just get to the right coordinates, it's right there in plain sight? So you just find the Grand Line and follow it until BAM! there's a mountain of treasure.
So yeah. A lot of questions. On the one hand, I'm like, "I guess we'd have to watch the rest of the show to find out if those questions ever get answered," but on the other hand, I know the anime has over a thousand episodes, and to be honest, I'm not really that curious. But there's a good chance we'll at least finish this season of the live action version. It's a lot fewer episodes and way less intimidating.
Today I'm thankful for the nice cool weather we had today, all the cool accents we get to hear in the live action One Piece, also getting to watch more Miraculous, Pepperidge Farm Verona cookies, and General Conference tomorrow.
Like, I don't know if it was different in the manga, but is there really a need for a map to the Grand Line? Apparently it goes all the way around the world, so if you pick literally any direction, you should run into it eventually...wait, you could pick a direction that's parallel to the Grand Line, but then you'd run into the other thing that goes around the world (forgot what it's called), and then you can just follow that to where they intersect.
Still, if you're worried about picking the wrong direction, couldn't you just use a compass? Nami has a bunch of navigation tools, surely one of them could help her figure out which way would go towards the Grand Line and not parallel to it.
Also apparently the Grand Line has bigger islands and bigger cities...which supposedly makes it more dangerous, but to have cities there would have to be people living in those cities, which means there must be some degree of safety, or those people wouldn't have survived. Are they all being oppressed like the people under Alvida and Buggy? (Which brings up the question of how exactly do they define "pirate" in this series? Because so far, except for Shanks and his crew, they've all seemed pretty darn evil, so why would you want to be one? Can't someone be a freelancing seafarer who doesn't pillage and plunder and destroy people's lives?)
But most of all, if "the Grand Line" is the only clue Gold Roger left for the location of his treasure...well, then I think all the pirates better be hoping to find Gold Roger's first mate or something, because they're going to need some more details. Sheesh, the idea of searching the entire equator for hidden treasure... Maybe it's not hidden, though? Like, if you can just get to the right coordinates, it's right there in plain sight? So you just find the Grand Line and follow it until BAM! there's a mountain of treasure.
So yeah. A lot of questions. On the one hand, I'm like, "I guess we'd have to watch the rest of the show to find out if those questions ever get answered," but on the other hand, I know the anime has over a thousand episodes, and to be honest, I'm not really that curious. But there's a good chance we'll at least finish this season of the live action version. It's a lot fewer episodes and way less intimidating.
Today I'm thankful for the nice cool weather we had today, all the cool accents we get to hear in the live action One Piece, also getting to watch more Miraculous, Pepperidge Farm Verona cookies, and General Conference tomorrow.