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Well it starts with being the emperor Zhu Shui I don't know if I wrote the name correctly, but is the emperor from the realm of the 2ML the princes where the ones directly helping, but the emperor is the one who wants the netherbeasts.

I see really there is a lot to show, but until now most arcs finish in 1 or 2 eps being Drum the only with 3 and one of the eps is a full flashback. So its really hard to see the arc going the whole 8 eps. Alabasta is a bigger arc, so 4 eps even 5 would make the show maintain the same rhitm, but 8 eps they would need to really dig in to some characters so that it maintains the rhitm. We are lucky that in this arc Ace, Crocodile, Robin even Smoker and Tachigi are characters that could be developed, but they need to be careful because if they show to much arcs with more development of the characters will have less impact. Now showing the effects of the war showing citys I think they might do it in one ep mostly.

She doesn't get stronger she recovers the power that she had before and they show more of her skills to builds weapons and tools. The moments where they get stronger is mostly the FL and ML working together and use skills that need both.

Who poisoned the FL it was her half-brother.
Who the ML is that's more complicated because their is two points for that. One easier, that is the fact that he is the disciple of the last survivor of the Bo clan the Bo clan was the ones that made the poison that the FL has and the cure. The poison gives spiritual veins to the people that don't have them and limits the use of them like its happening to the FL. The point is that is very dangerous and the Bo clan proihibited tha fabric of the poison and cure because everyone could have spiritual vein causing troubles like the series shows. The ML was poisoned with the same poison has the FL, but he didn't have spiritual veins before and ended up gain strong spiritual veins. His master the last of the Bo clan made the cure that has proihibited to save him and he won strong spiritual veins like the FL the difference he won them and she was born with them.

Now the second point about his identity is a bigger spoiler that is just mentioned closer to the end even if they gave little tips in the middle.

Mmmmm, true its just outside defeating the Barock works, meating Ace saying goodbye to Vivi.

The only thing that I can think that might be possible to make a sub-plot is the marines.
I don't remember very well the arc what else could be made a sub-plot to Alabasta that makes sense or worth? I remember vaguely a part that Luffy is digging to find water for the old man, and the situation with the guy that transforms into a bird that I don't remember exactly why he need to go to the tower.

Agreed, seems the most appropriate. Would like what?
Ep 1 they go through the first town.
Ep 2 or maybe 1 the first appearance of Ace.
Ep 3 They go through the desert?
Ep 4 fights with the numbers. Vivi goes to the palace? Maybe Luffy loses to crocodile.
Ep 5 continue the battles Luffy goes digs the desert?
Ep 6 Last fight everything finished goodbye Vivi.

The details are fuzzy on my head so I'm not sure of how much each ep would take, but seems to be something like that, plus the intervention of the marines.

I'm on ep 25 and I never had seen such a militar strategy. Very intricate and effective. The guys playing checkers and ChangYu is playing 3D chess. Who would have thought that the most basic strategy would work wonders.
But well they disobeyd direct orders so punishment was expected.

Yes, because of some conflicts he will eventually heals her.
He discovers that Ming Xian needs the cure because he was poisoned and gets upset with Ming YI thinking that she is like everyone that just want the antidote, but he eventually perceives that Ming Yi is Ming Xian and she is the one who needs the cure.

Well that happens around ep 26 to. I think its ep 27/28, but their is more to it that will be explianed a little later.

Before the ep 16 they start to have feelings mostly him, but with the thing in the ep 16 he gets annoyed and they distance a little, but they are together dealing with the enemies so he can't get away and he starts to get closer again eventually they are pratically romantically envolved, but the last truth appears he gets completely pissed. He still cares for her and gives a hand when she is in danger, but all the truth gets revealed in the ep 26.

I hadn't noticed that. But are you talking about 45 eps the whole arc since they met Vivi or 45 just Alabasta Island.
Sincerely unless I forgot something I don't think there is enough stuff for 8 eps of the series in the Alabasta arc alone. Maybe they will do like 6 eps Alabasta and the last 2 the Blackbeard, Bellamy and the guy that wants to ring the sky bell.

Agreed, I was hoping maybe he wouldn't go full on obcession. I even though that maybe Fuyue the fox might sacrifice so that he would not turn in a hopeless killer.

Depends he will discover part of the truth around ep 16, but she changes a little the story the fact that she is Ming Xian he confirms it around ep 26.

They will adapt Alabasta, but seing the rhitm that the live action has is difficult to imagine alabasta taking all 8 eps. Maybe 4 alabasta 4 skypea, but its difficult to imagine all skypea in 4 eps.

And they will need at least 1 more ep for the introduction of belamy, blackbeard and the guy that wants to go ring the bell in the sky islands.

Finished ep 4 after having been holding to binge in one go. I was expecting all the situation with the Than and Vicky's father to happen. I hope the drama to be put to a minimum between the FLs. My guess if they don't put to much drama it will be something like Vicky will get hurt because of being used Than explains Vicky understand, but is hurt so Than will probably need to make some gesture.

I'm guessing, but Than's father death probably Vicky's father knows what happen and probably is something envolving the red hairs father, but Than is probably just guessing because of childhood memory and the fact that Vicky's father is a cop knows something, but doesn't do nothing and the only clue that she has.

Agreed, the SML was feeling to bland and didn't really fit in the story well. Giving that much screentime killed the character giving him the scenes of him trying to win the FL was ok, but they even gave scenes to make U Ju like him and even scenes to teach the ML how to deal with his family situation.
He was a nice guy , but it didn't feel right and there are some reasons for that. I was getting annoyed at him and feeling bad because he likes the FL, but he oversteped with U Ju I know that he wanted to get the family bond and show that she didn't need to worry about U Ju not liking him however it makes you feel like he is pushing away the ML not just from FL life even from U Ju. I know he was protecting the FL, but he is being highly inapropriate with how he talks to the ML about is father.

I was 100% right the dad was abusive I had changed from abusive dad to something else thinking that the problem was just money related after meeting the dad I thought that he was manipulating them looking like a good person from the start.

Damn I'm good I had changed that the reason for the abandon of the ML , but

Can you elaborate? I don't think that Arc is bad, but didn't get much from it outside some eps with there own story that I thought had a nice theme. I think that the imagination power was an interesting idea, but they didn't use very well. Example in Kiramaiger the Red Ranger uses is iamgination to draw things that is stone/zord uses to create new forms or weapons.
I think that imagination power more appealing.

Exactly I understand they focusing on raising the kid and just living together they are not cops and they think it was just a tragic accident, what maybe is true, but what is sure is the brother needed to tell something to the ML important enough to put aside the fact that they don't talk for 15 years+/- and it seems to be related to the father. The father seems to have problems with money, but that would not be a good enough reason to make the brother contact the ML. The only thing in my mind now is the father is manipulating them to make it seem he is good and changed, but outside of stealing money what would he do?

Now the reason is about to appear insurance money thats the reason for the dad being back.
Now we just need a reason about what happened in the past.