Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
Somehow the dynamics were somewhat lacking in this episode. The pirates were underperforming and standing still while the bad guys were using their powers to the max and moving around. You'd think the other rookies would have had quite a few tricks in their pockets if they have bounties equal to Luffy. Instead they seemed to run out of them really fast unless this was just a Rocky moment of them accepting hits before really getting up (but it didn't look like that).
That's not really a testament to how weak they are, but how strong the marine's top forces can be

Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnder
Scratch Apoo's power sucked. At first I thought he was a Sound Logia, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Dude he sliced a arm and then the upper torso of the guy at a distance! That would be lethal to anyone who isn't a Logia

Also, i'd assume that's the music fruit