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Fullmetal Alchemist, ep. 17-19
Look! I finally made myself a FMA icon! I figure I will be posting on this enough to warrant one.
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Winry episode is mostly boring, although I like both Winry and Auntie Pinako. Especially Auntie Pinako and her little stick up ponytail. I am neutral toward Major Armstrong, although it was amusing when all his little glowy heart things cracked ;).
But... big revelations in the next few episodes! Is Lust originally one of the Ishbal people? Does this mean the other two Sins are too? Also, I'm pretty sure that the series has already mentioned something about a homunculus, but I forgot what it was.
Oh wait. Silly me. It wasn't the show that said it. It was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yuneicorn, because she was joking that if there were a homunculus of me, it would consist of a very large stomach. Huh. And now Wikipedia says that it is something like a golem, created out of human parts by alchemists. Hrrrmmmmm. So now speculation is that perhaps Lust was one of the Ishbal people, which is why Scar recognized her, except that the giant massacre of people there somehow did something to Scar's arm to make it partially Philosopher's Stone-y and to make the other Sins. Contemplating. And of course, the strange tattooes... done in blood? No idea.
Also, of course Ed drew the symbol that connects Al's soul to his armor in blood. It makes sense, given the big taboo of using humans in transmutations. I don't think Ed and Al can ever have their bodies fully restored, not by means that they consider ethical. Either that, or... well, they are down a slippery slope or something. I just don't see how this series can possibly end happily with its current trajectory, given that human transmutation is still the great horror. And it's not just the characters who think so, the series has gone to great lengths to show all the bad things that happen to people who don't follow the rule of equivalency in alchemy. Also, the Nina episode still gives me the creeps. Man.
What can the Elric brothers do anyway? They lost their body parts in a alchemy experiment that never should have been conducted, and given how the world seems to work, it's the consequence of their actions, and it can't be undone. Well, it probably can, but by very horrifying means.
I had a nice chill when the fifth laboratory was found next to a prison. Of course. I still don't quite get this larger truth within a truth. I keep wanting to link everything back to Ishbal, mostly because it's the only piece of the puzzle I seem to have. Big government conspiracy to bring in the state alchemists to try and gain the philosopher's stone? Big expenditure of human lives for that purpose? Why do the Sins want the Philosopher's Stone? If Lust were human before, maybe she wants to get her body back again too, but who knows. Also, as a side note, Gluttony's smile and kid-like pleasure in eating people really, really, really creeps me out.
I'm wondering what they're doing in Lior. More people to kill? No idea.
And yay, there's another military female who is not Hawkeye! Maria Ross seems nice, but not quite as cool as Hawkeye yet.
Wargh. Want to watch more, but must make self go to bed...
And more armor with souls!
And I never tire of watching Al try to sneak around. I adore Al. He is so cute (I'm sorry, I'm probably going to be saying "I adore Al" in every single episode write up. He's too cute).
I'm glad the automail is painful.
Even though these arc-y revelations are cool, nothing has quite had the same emotional impact that the Nina episode and the Ed running into a serial killer in the meat van episode did.
ETA: Oh yeah. I forgot.Yomiko/The Paper Sciecska (however you spell it) was nifty. Yay book people! And I totally cracked up during the excavating-books-cave-well scene.
Notes:
Winry episode is mostly boring, although I like both Winry and Auntie Pinako. Especially Auntie Pinako and her little stick up ponytail. I am neutral toward Major Armstrong, although it was amusing when all his little glowy heart things cracked ;).
But... big revelations in the next few episodes! Is Lust originally one of the Ishbal people? Does this mean the other two Sins are too? Also, I'm pretty sure that the series has already mentioned something about a homunculus, but I forgot what it was.
Oh wait. Silly me. It wasn't the show that said it. It was
yuneicorn, because she was joking that if there were a homunculus of me, it would consist of a very large stomach. Huh. And now Wikipedia says that it is something like a golem, created out of human parts by alchemists. Hrrrmmmmm. So now speculation is that perhaps Lust was one of the Ishbal people, which is why Scar recognized her, except that the giant massacre of people there somehow did something to Scar's arm to make it partially Philosopher's Stone-y and to make the other Sins. Contemplating. And of course, the strange tattooes... done in blood? No idea.Also, of course Ed drew the symbol that connects Al's soul to his armor in blood. It makes sense, given the big taboo of using humans in transmutations. I don't think Ed and Al can ever have their bodies fully restored, not by means that they consider ethical. Either that, or... well, they are down a slippery slope or something. I just don't see how this series can possibly end happily with its current trajectory, given that human transmutation is still the great horror. And it's not just the characters who think so, the series has gone to great lengths to show all the bad things that happen to people who don't follow the rule of equivalency in alchemy. Also, the Nina episode still gives me the creeps. Man.
What can the Elric brothers do anyway? They lost their body parts in a alchemy experiment that never should have been conducted, and given how the world seems to work, it's the consequence of their actions, and it can't be undone. Well, it probably can, but by very horrifying means.
I had a nice chill when the fifth laboratory was found next to a prison. Of course. I still don't quite get this larger truth within a truth. I keep wanting to link everything back to Ishbal, mostly because it's the only piece of the puzzle I seem to have. Big government conspiracy to bring in the state alchemists to try and gain the philosopher's stone? Big expenditure of human lives for that purpose? Why do the Sins want the Philosopher's Stone? If Lust were human before, maybe she wants to get her body back again too, but who knows. Also, as a side note, Gluttony's smile and kid-like pleasure in eating people really, really, really creeps me out.
I'm wondering what they're doing in Lior. More people to kill? No idea.
And yay, there's another military female who is not Hawkeye! Maria Ross seems nice, but not quite as cool as Hawkeye yet.
Wargh. Want to watch more, but must make self go to bed...
And more armor with souls!
And I never tire of watching Al try to sneak around. I adore Al. He is so cute (I'm sorry, I'm probably going to be saying "I adore Al" in every single episode write up. He's too cute).
I'm glad the automail is painful.
Even though these arc-y revelations are cool, nothing has quite had the same emotional impact that the Nina episode and the Ed running into a serial killer in the meat van episode did.
ETA: Oh yeah. I forgot.