Episode 1138 piece Very good – OK, anyway, what’s new.
Sadly, half of the running time this week is editing performances. In the context of the scene, this makes sense, at least it’s good. Bonney absorbs all Kuma’s memories, so it’s all about all the actions he’s taken to protect her and Ginny over the years. My cynical part feels that making perfect memories of parents’ behaviors with such children is a cheat, and I don’t think it’s unfair criticism. One of the great tragedies of being human is that we can never fully understand each other and no one else can fully understand what we do.
In this case, it adds more than just damage. Kumar lives a complicated life, and many people who have affected him or are affected have died. This allows Bonney to explore her past in a meaningful way without doubting how she knows a particular detail or some backstory. Additionally, Bonney is only twelve years old – still a child with limited life experience. Given how long she lived in the church and avoided going out, this life experience was even less than many of her peers. Given all this, she needs help to keep up with the rest of the cast. Not to mention, even with a perfect record of other people’s lives, we may spend some time processing so much information and working hard to learn a lot. This will become more complicated for young girls like Bonney, perhaps radiating an emotional wave in his memory.
The back end of the plot is more combative. Franky was surrounded by Borsalino walls and was a pain in my pain (Franky’s No. 1 fan), but it was nice to see him get up unscathed. Jupiter has more battles on him, and the upcoming nemesis phone call certainly increased the bet tenfold. The Marines and Navy are going to do another Ohara, which is a repetition of one of the tragedies defined by the world in recent memory. I hope this doesn’t resonate with our current world, but art mimics life and all of that.
