I live on the dark side of the moon.

Sorry...But that is a little bit beyond dumb. Happy-fun-time doesn't really trump that kind of trauma. It's nice that Luffy isn't overly serious, an overly serious Luffy would be terrible for the series. But in this case you'd expect him to be at least a tiny bit more serious. It's kind of like everything he went through at Impel and Maineford has been swept under the carpet. Sorry, but you can't really do that, that's bad story telling. It's now a part of Luffy. It's kind of like Maineford and Ace really didn't matter all that much. (More than likely this is true, but it comes across as a little immature on Oda's part.) Right after the flashback bits there almost seemed to be an effort to hide the Maineford issue under a carpet. Even after the time skip if you take a good look at it. Unfortunately, as crappy as it was, it was a pretty damn big event to Luffy, he should at least take a little something away from it. Also, on to Fishman Island, okay, I'm not really impressed. Neptune looks like a hairier version of Disney's King Trident from the little mermaid, his daughter looks a little much like Nami(a whinier crybaby Nami).