Fullmetal Alchemist, ep. 22-23
Sat, Jul. 30th, 2005 02:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterAlas, I don't remember much of this one because I forgot to blog it, and then I didn't watch FMA for a good two months or so.
Most of my reaction involves "Eep!" and "No, Ed, don't do it! Don't do it!" with the occasional side of "Oh poor Al..."
I am mostly amazed at how the writers managed to make it so that I actually fully believed that Ed would make the choice to make a philosopher's stone out of all those people just to save his brother. It seems such a cool (and creepy) inversion of the typical individual vs. masses choice that the hero has to make, in which they can either save the individual or save the masses, and the hero inevitably opts to save the individual closest to them and gets to cop out and have the masses be saved too. Except here, it's a choice to actively kill the masses, which puts the choice in an entirely different light.
I just like how I really believed Ed would do this bad, wrong thing -- it felt like there was an actual conflict, I didn't feel like everything was pre-decided for him, as is too often the case in "dilemma" situations like these.
Also, homunculi!
Waaaah, fallout! I actually found this episode highly traumatic as well, since I adore Al and feel horribly for him. Just... I like how he angsts quietly by himself, and, well, I just feel so bad for him.
Winry is cute.
I continue to like Ross.
I have no more real comments until I find out what happens to Al.
Most of my reaction involves "Eep!" and "No, Ed, don't do it! Don't do it!" with the occasional side of "Oh poor Al..."
I am mostly amazed at how the writers managed to make it so that I actually fully believed that Ed would make the choice to make a philosopher's stone out of all those people just to save his brother. It seems such a cool (and creepy) inversion of the typical individual vs. masses choice that the hero has to make, in which they can either save the individual or save the masses, and the hero inevitably opts to save the individual closest to them and gets to cop out and have the masses be saved too. Except here, it's a choice to actively kill the masses, which puts the choice in an entirely different light.
I just like how I really believed Ed would do this bad, wrong thing -- it felt like there was an actual conflict, I didn't feel like everything was pre-decided for him, as is too often the case in "dilemma" situations like these.
Also, homunculi!
Waaaah, fallout! I actually found this episode highly traumatic as well, since I adore Al and feel horribly for him. Just... I like how he angsts quietly by himself, and, well, I just feel so bad for him.
Winry is cute.
I continue to like Ross.
I have no more real comments until I find out what happens to Al.
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Sat, Jul. 30th, 2005 09:26 am (UTC)I want to do a moment like that in my fiction. Somewhere. Before I die. I don't know if it's achievable, but I can try.