On One Piece, American remix

So the One Piece fandom is making a bid for fanwank of the month, over the new dub, the first ep of which aired on Fox last Saturday morning. The majority of the arguments go thusly: someone cries that it's the end of the world as we know it and 4Kids deserves seven plagues for the travesty they have wreaked upon anime, and why couldn't OP at least be shown on CN's Adult Swim, since it's not for kids. Someone else counters, but it is for kids, and don't you want OP to be popular, and we always have the fansubs, after all? And then everyone says, "oh, you're right" and goes to listen to the new rap opening, either sobbing or shrieking with hysterical laughter, because the OP fandom is not really into protracted flamewars.

The problem is that neither side quite has it right. And frankly, though I'm one of those who can and does laugh at the horror of the dub, and enjoys how much more it makes me appreciate the original, and I'm getting annoyed at the repetitive "4Kids must DIE!" - all the same, we have reason to be pissed.

( And then there was ranting )