You basically spoiled yourself when you wanted to get to the battle. Of course if you knew everything about what would happen next everything in between would get boring to you! Who knew!to be honest i don't really remember it , but i do remember i got really bored, maybe because i had some spoils about , people who didn't watch water 7 don't readbut still back there i didn't even know what filler is, so getting bored in the main story (as i thought it was) was really frustratingluffy vs ussop battle and that they are gonna get a new ship in water 7 and i really wanted to watch those things
Everyone bitching about the new episodes that come out like pacing was slow, animation sucks, this didn't happen in the manga ... these people are entitled to their opinion. However, it doesn't mean that you should tell other people, watching the series for the first time and do not want to get spoiled, that some arcs suck. Let them judge for themselves. You did yourself a disservice in knowing what would happen next. You suckered yourself so much into seeing that battle and the new things coming that you completely disregarded the scenes in between.