FMA summary

[oyceter]

So I ended up Netflixing FMA to watch it rather casually; I was watching it before, maybe about a year ago, but I stopped after episode 26 and just never quite got back to it for some reason. I decided to just pick it up again, largely because most anime conversations I have tend to say something about it, at which point I must admit that I've only seen half of it and then stopped (this happens to me a lot in conversation re: quite a few things).

I got up to around episode 23 while casually watching, then rachelmanija showed up. And since I only had one more episode on the disc, we watched that together.

That was on Friday. I'm now up to episode 42, after obsessively mainlining the thing, and ohmygod I am so hooked. The rest of tomorrow is probably going to be episodes 42-51, after which I will even more obsessively scour the internet for fic and episode writeups and etc.

Anyway, please no spoilers in the comments. There will be some sort of summary post later after my mental abilities return, but for those of you who haven't watched it, it has meticulous plotting, great characters, and really daring writing. I keep thinking that it won't go certain places, or that I can't see how they will resolve something, given that one resolution is pretty much set in stone but too out there to actually narrate, and then they'll actually go there.

Gaaaaaaaaaaah.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

and then they'll actually go there

Let's see, episode 42 is . . . oh, yes, it's _that_ one.

Yup. That was my reaction too. To pretty much the whole thing.

People have mixed reactions to the movie, which I haven't actually gotten around to watching yet, just FYI.

[oyceter]

YES. Gah. I don't think I actually have the movie, but right now I'm so caught up in the series that I can't really think past the latest episode.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I remember being on vacation when I was watching this, and trying to limit myself to some reasonable number of episodes per day. (Apparently I had much more self-control then, given my recent binging on PoT.)

I collected a lot of commentary in this post (http://rilina.livejournal.com/219889.html). It's all deeply spoilery for the finale, so don't click on the link until you're finished.

[oyceter]

Hee! I was thinking last night, "Ohhhh rilina is so going to laugh at me when she learns how much I watched."

Thanks for the link!

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Yes! My watching had almost the same arc. I plodded through the first half, enjoying it but not really seeing what there was to get all fannish about, and then the second half picked up steam, and then the last 10-12 episodes were just OMFG!!1!

I never got around to writing anything coherent about it, though.

[oyceter]

Yeah! I mean... I seem to be very good at losing patience right when a series gets to the good parts, because man! Right after episode 26, everything just starts going!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I was doing pretty good at watching 2 or 3 episodes a day, until the final six, which I inhaled all at once, because I couldn't do anything else. :D

[oyceter]

Oh, you are pretty good! Usually I'm much better about not binging on TV, because it makes my head hurt, but then it got to all the exciting bits and gah!

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was hoping Rachel was making you watch Supernatural, but this works too.

[oyceter]

She hasn't exactly made me watch SPN, but since I had about decided I wasn't going to watch anyway, I told her she could spoil me for the S1 ending and the latest episode. I have decided maybe I should watch casually, especially after seeing the director's cut clip you linked to, because Dean emo porn!