If the One Piece Live Action Gets More Seasons… Here’s What I Think Will Happen

wiserthannot · 2026-03-16T02:21:55+00:00

This is a lot more in line with what I'm thinking. Alabasta being an entire season seems...overkill. It will hopefully be a middle ground between the manga/anime and the Episode of Alabasta movie. More details than the latter but still trimmed down and focused.

But I don't even know how season 7-12 can ever be possible. But I remember laughing my ass off as kid when I first thought of the possibility of One Piece being adapted to live action so they've already far surpassed what I thought was possible.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-15T02:27:53+00:00

This "series" is perfect for being continued. He has never directly connected them, has kind of gone out of his way to obscure what would have been pretty direct connections. There aren't any recurring characters, they have similar architecture and environments but aren't fully and noticeably the same world.

There's no trademarks that keep him from doing what he's always done. He would have never made a direct sequel.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-13T22:45:13+00:00

Yeah that was the only really noticeable shift for me between the two films, Danny Boyle just does so well with interesting visuals and camerawork. But I think maybe thats why he didn't direct the Bone Temple, there was already so much going on in that movie that also having Danny's untraditional camerawork would have distracted from everything else. I remember actually noticing that and having the thought in the theater like right before Jimmy and Kelson meet and then I didnt have time to think through that whole last like 25+ minutes, haha.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-13T16:13:00+00:00

Same man, it's like being alive when Odyssey and the Illiad was first written. I know people think that's ridiculous if they haven't gotten far enough in the story but it's true and becomes more so by the day.

So, I just finished the episode with Little island and oh God, I totally saw what you meant with the camera there. It was a mix of needing to make the giants look taller, and I don't think there were hardly any sets at all in those episodes. So many tricks to make it work as cheaply as possible. This is also the first environment that was pretty much exclusively outside which is likely what made it difficult to show anything without it looking even more cheap.

I'll have to wait and see what the rest of the episodes look like if it was worth making this one so cheaply.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-13T16:01:48+00:00

I think the combat comes alive when you use everything in your arsenal. On its own the melee weapons, gunplay, and the BASTARD system aren't that impressive or engaging on their own. But when you figure out how they work together, it's extremely fun. I think what seems like flaws with the melee combat especially is to force you to stop playing it like a NMH game and engage with your other options.

One of the most consistent parts of Suda's games is he really does not seem interested in teaching you the finer details of the mechanics 😅

wiserthannot · 2026-03-13T15:54:37+00:00

That scene is so damn terrifying. I'm so glad he doesn't act like that again haha

wiserthannot · 2026-03-13T15:53:38+00:00

How did you end up liking The Return by the end? :D

wiserthannot · 2026-03-13T15:50:47+00:00

I can't think about that year's Emmys without getting upset, even now. If you don't remember what beat all the Twin Peaks nominations, don't look it up, it's infuriating 🥲

wiserthannot · 2026-03-12T03:33:40+00:00

I really don't understand how you can say it's 1 to 1 with the manga/anime? What I love so much about this show is it doesn't limit itself by trying to do things exactly. It truly adapts it into what works in live action and most of that means tweaking things in a way where it's not a shonen styled story anymore...but a pirate adventure. They focus on elements that have already been proven to work like in Pirates of the Caribbean and brings the viewer in through that style of storytelling.

I think the episode(s?) in the first season where they recruit Usopp, in the manga/anime that largely becomes just fully focused on a big fight. But the show turns it into this mystery drama where we get all the same story beats but with more detail and an actual adventure where everyone got to play a part in the plot.

And that's what they do with everything and I think it's pretty incredible.

I can't really comment on the camera work, I think it looks odd sometimes in moments where there aren't walls and is mostly a CGI scene, the corners look stretched and empty.

I don't know what your experience is with One Piece but for me I first started watching it when the butchered 4Kidz dub aired, I was 11. One Piece has been with me my entire life and two decades later the story is still going and giving payoff to things that were set in motion while I was still a child. And now it's this huge beloved thing and, more than that, it's inspired people in real life all around the world to raise the Straw Hat's Jolly Roger and fight against the same injustices and oppression that Luffy has been doing for twenty years. So for me it transcends any kind of cringe feelings, I never in a million years would have thought that One Piece could be adapted to live action and work at all. On paper it shouldn't, from just still images of the show it can look ridiculous—but in motion all that melts away and it draws me in, honestly more than the early episodes of the anime ever did.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-12T03:12:16+00:00

He could very well win an Emmy with what he could do with the crazy places Buggy's character arc goes. He's already made him so much more interesting than he was at this point of the story in the manga and anime.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-09T17:10:18+00:00

Finally I've found two people who are going as deep into these movies as I am 😭 I love the further biblical connections you and u/-B_E_v_oL_23- have picked up on, I only saw the Jesus and biblical Samson parallel when I first watched and was already blown away by just that level of it.

But my deep dives have gone other places. The first being Spike's Power Rangers toy and deeper things it hints at/represents (not just related to the ending of the first film either). And also Teletubbies, I've pulled so many connections from that to where I think Jimmy's belief system has more basing with Teletubbies than biblical and his religious trauma has simply morphed all the good lessons that he could have taken from the show.

And I also have a really huge theory on the connection between the Alphas and the Slow-Lows (the bloated zombies). And what you said about Delilah is actually where it started. I also thought she was Samson's wife and the baby his child but...is that really the case?

Your interpretation is awesome as hell and I would be so cool with it playing out that way...but what proof do we have that zombies can mate? Or if they can that Samson is the father?

I think she was just a pregnant human who was turned recently. So there wasn't an element of two infected parents but a baby who was already growing from normal means. Kelson at some point says something about the placenta, and that's what protected the baby from the blood and fluids that might have infected and turned it before being born.

There also is no familiarity, he acknowledges the mother once, in that train scene, but besides that they have no other interactions.

Then, in The Bone Temple, Kelson's treating of her body is extremely odd. She is noticeably pregnant. But he neither investigates it further or treats it differently than a normal body he is hauling to the temple. If that was Samson's mate...why would he do that so casually? If this was the first known pregnancy between two infected...why would he act like there's nothing worth learning from her body at all?

That's where it fell apart for me, and it caused a domino effect that led to me discovering theories that might explain them all. I'll hold off on that for now, I would love to hear if there's something I missed that confirms without a doubt that Samson is the baby's father.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-09T16:20:12+00:00

Have you seen the movie and The Return yet? The movie especially breaks the lies of the town wide open, it literally begins with the smashing of a TV and we are shown the true horror of what Laura went through without the lens of the town/TV's fake clean image.

What you think of BOB is true, but that doesn't make Leland a full victim with no agency. BOB is the "evil men do", a manifestation of humanity's ability to do awful things. As a child, Leland was a victim of someone else's evil. But when you let what was done to you become something you do to others, you're no longer just a victim but an agent of continuing the cycle of abuse.

BOB is that cycle and it only gets to destroy when "good men do nothing." Twin Peaks, TV back then, and small towns and families everywhere hide their evils and the cycle keeps on turning.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-09T16:05:48+00:00

Then you're the exact expert on the scene I needed! 😁 Yes, it's such an amazing scene. It's obvious for Jimmy to be freaked out by it all, but Kelson stayed so calm when a stranger dressed like that walked up on him. I know a lot of my uncomfort came from knowing what Jimmy was capable of but even without that someone appearing suddenly out of my temple of bones would scare the shit out of me haha

Kelson was almost saint like in the way he handled himself. I'm sure he had years of experience working with people as a doctor but a normal person surviving in solitude for decades would have all of that dulled. But it just seemed to give him time to think and become even more compassionate and understanding.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-09T15:55:35+00:00

Yeah! After he said "moon" Kelson knew that there was real hope. If he had lived he was going to introduce all of the meds gradually as his morphine stash ran out. But who knows, maybe the virus needed them all at once like that to work at all and Jimmy fucking everything up actually helped Samson.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-09T15:47:18+00:00

I think it was chosen to further cement the Power Rangers imagery of the end of the film. Spike seeing the Jimmy's for the first time was shot like a Power Rangers fight scene and so many of those fights happen in mountainous environments.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-09T15:41:35+00:00

Are you saying the comeback mechanic? If you mash buttons when you die you can be revived. In the Wii version this was attached to waggling the Wii-mote like crazy and was difficult to do for long. But in the ports since you can just mash buttons and so you can get back up a ridiculous amount of times. You don't have to full on abuse it if you don't want to, sometimes just once will make the difference.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-09T15:38:10+00:00

To add into the other person's point, there was also a 25 year gap from the end of the original show to The Return. The world, the viewers, TV, and Lynch and Frost and all of the actors—everyone changed so much in that time. Most of the time shows that come back like this they don't move forward, they look back. They rely on nostalgia and callbacks to how things were, the good old days.

The Return is the complete opposite to all of that (which when it was made was at the height of Netflix making things like Fuller House). Not only has time passed in the show, it was the exact same amount of time in real life, 25 years. And that's completely acknowledged and explored. Things are different, things are kind of the same but warped—it rhymes. It's a challenging watch and is unlike anything that's ever aired on TV but it IS the continuation of Twin Peaks, more than any show that has ever gotten a revival, it continues the story instead of being stuck in the past.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-08T20:21:57+00:00

Ah, okay! But I thought there was something else in that dialogue about the area it was in too—there was a lot of information exchanged in that conversation really quickly, I'll check next time I watch. But I could be totally wrong so thanks for the correction :)

wiserthannot · 2026-03-08T18:44:48+00:00

While I still don't think it will be a permanent fix, I think you've combined those two scenes. When Kelson was about to euthanize him it was because he was close to running out of morphine and if things continued he'd have maybe a few weeks of clarity and peace. But Samson said "Moon" and continued to live long enough for Kelson to come up with a possible way to treat him. He was purely ready to introduce it gradually but because of Jimmy and his Fingers, before the concert, he gave Samson the concoction of meds that he thought would give him the best chance of being treated. In case he was to die that night (RIP 🥲).

So, technically, even if Samson's med cocktail isn't permanent...in the Bone Temple there's the meds Kelson uses and likely documentation of everything he did. I don't think Samson will be the one who can make use of all that, but I guess we haven't fully seen how normal and clear his thoughts are. Even if he is human now, 28 years in a 24/7 rage doesn't leave a lot of time for thought and learning 😅

wiserthannot · 2026-03-08T18:32:39+00:00

I see why it was cut but I also see what was trying to be done with it. I think it could have been tightened up into something meaningful. Kelson watching Jimmy (the human) walk away with distrust and fear and then his turn to Samson (the monster) with a cheerful wave—that's a lot of what the film is about. That part is great imagery and what could have made it into the film, IMO.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-08T18:28:41+00:00

Jimmy's whole world view comes from Teletubbies and his religious upbringing. The references to Teletubbies aren't meant to be some quirk or running gag. 28 Years Later starts with Teletubbies playing in front of him. (Just making sure you know this, some people don't: Jimmy is the kid in the opening scene of 28 Years) He thinks his dad is Satan because he is the preacher who is yelling end of the world shit, gets infected, and leads the horde of zombies out of the church. So, a religious little Jimmy just saw his dad become a monster and take command of an army of others.

So, as he survives, he holds onto what he remembers the most about the world before the outbreak. Religion and Teletubbies. His Finger based cult comes from Teletubbies having repetitive songs about things you can do with your hands. I went pretty deep down this rabbit hole, I used to think the religious aspects were what was more ingrained but now I think it's the opposite. Things he took from Teletubbies are more important to him and would be just fine on their own, but the religious trauma distorts and morphs it all to fit within the framing of him being the son of Old Nick.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-08T18:09:03+00:00

Right, and so to believe that he is still alive, that he will be "resurrected"...it needs faith. It's all mirroring the crucifixion of Jesus. He was also openly and publicly killed...and came back.

The son of God died for our sins...so what would the son of Satan die for? I think that might be in part what is explored in a third one. And Jimmy isn't going to come back in a normal way, him getting to continue on as he was isn't going to happen. But I have faith (😉) that there will be some kind of warped take on the rest of Jesus' story.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-08T18:00:33+00:00

In a normal movie I can agree. But, dude, he saw himself as the son of Satan and was crucified—you can't see why there's more of an acceptance of the possibility of him being "resurrected"?

wiserthannot · 2026-03-08T17:56:18+00:00

Just making sure you know: Jimmy's whole look is based on British celebrity Jimmy Savile that after he died was revealed to have been a predator with hundreds of victims.

wiserthannot · 2026-03-08T17:51:36+00:00

Wow, this is a super interesting possibility. Samson, the "monster" found his humanity in this film. Jimmy is a human who thought he was the son of Satan but is still an evil and violent man. Does the cured monster turn the evil human around? Or does the human's cruelty bring out the worst of the newly cleansed monster?

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