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Luffy on the Sunny declaring his dream as the first chapter of Egghead (1060). The bandages on his face are likely a reference to the ones he had when he declared his dream to Ace and Sabo as a kid. Caribou can also be seen in his barrel. 
I'll get straight to the point: to start things off, I've previously explained how I believe the One Piece treasure is Binks's Sake, a "laugh tale" that when you translate its lyrics from Japanese, details things that refer to events from the Void Century (2/25) 
It becomes clear when watching that the Live Action is not the manga. They didn’t try to just copy paste the original story, they put in the effort to accurately translate it in a way that it works for live action audiences while still keeping the heart of the series. (2/16) 
There was a bit of confusion within the fandom as to what exactly the Motherflame is. The Japanese version mentions Imu "wishing to use the Motherflame made by Vegapunk", but Ivankov believed the ancient weapon wasn't made by Vegapunk and may be Imu himself (2/10) 
As a disclaimer, obviously I'm biased towards this project, but I also promised the staff I'd judge the show fairly, because it'd be disrespectful to their efforts if I only praised it blindly. This is also not a paid review, just my honest thoughts (2/15)
So Nefertari Lily of Alabasta never returned from Mary Geoise at the end of the Void Century. The easiest answer to this is that she had a change of heart against Imu and thus was killed in turn, but managed to divulge the secrets she discovered in a letter to her family (2/12) 
For starters, when the shields were lowered, York was with the other Vegapunks away from the systems. It is possible she sabotaged them beforehand, but how was she able to trigger the shield going down? And how was she able to lock the shield up later too? (2/13) 
The latest SBS revealed Zoro's mother to be named Terra. This is particularly significant as Terra means "earth", whereas Sanji's mom, Sora, translates to "sky". Add Jinbe, the "First Son of the Sea", and you have Luffy's three commanders representing the three planes (2/10) 
So the confusing part about this chapter is that it seems to present a contradiction, as we know these two things about the traitor:
So to summarize, this traitor is responsible for:
During Dressrosa, Doflamingo explained that the reason why he can blackmail the Celestial Dragons is because he knows of the existence of a "National Treasure that resides within Mary Geoise", claiming that its existence was so secret, no one was allowed to know about it (2/16) 
I dislike jumping to any other fruit names being hidden like the Nika fruit, unless the Government had a reason to hide them. But what if Kuma's "race" isn't actually his race from birth, but actually tied to his fruit in some way? It'd explain why Bonney is just human (2/5) 
These were Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and of course, Saturn. Back then it was believed the five elder planets revolved around the Earth alongside the Moon. This geocentric model can even be seen in the Library of Ohara, where we see the Moon + 5 planets around the globe (2/9) 
This doesn't rule out the possibility that he is perhaps being very literal, that they were magically born out of people's very own dreams, but the wording in Japanese is too vague at the moment to know if what he is saying is literal or more of a philosophical speech 
