whenever someone says filler is useless i just think about this episode with brook trying to find his place in the crew because it takes a while for me to get attached to a character and this was def the one where i began to really love brook
whenever i see someone make the argument that "____ character doesn't deserve to be a strawhat" or "_____ is useless to luffy" i always think back to when they accepted chopper into their crew without even knowing that he was a doctor, just this silly lil guy they befriended
i feel like franky being run down by a high-speed train, his body breaking apart, and having to literally REBUILD HIMSELF with SCRAP METAL that he found on an abandoned ship on his own should be acknowledged more often because . wow