Or, "Fanservice with some flashbacks thrown in on the side."


Or maybe the other way around.

I dunno, the fanservice stuck pretty well, unfortunately.


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I like how Riza seems to be saying, "Okay, are we done now?"

That concludes my perverted segment...

Not enough flashback, IMHO. Needed more Armstrong. And more...of the wonderful pacing. Brotherhood's good, but it's still falling far short of the manga. Far short. Well, not so much in some parts, but here...definitely. They spliced the part where Riza takes out the guy who ambushes Hughes and Mustang...added to the danger of the battlefield AND the awesomeness of her character. Kimblee's speech didn't go on long enough, either. They left out the "What, did you sign up to kill one person? Ten?" And the subtitles botched his speech. Alas. Bad subtitles can ruin a show.

But overall, it was cool to see everything laid out again. And see the nastiness and magnificence of Kimblee. He should be back soon. And making toy bombs. That aren't really bombs.

Oh, and despite the amounts of Riza fanservice, they never actually explained the part where she tells Mustang to burn her back. Or does that come later? I don't think it does. Where she asks if she can "entrust her back" to him. And thus, he learns Flame Alchemy...


They had May-Chan falling in love with Al, though. Which made me laugh.

OH.

They also cut the awesomeness of Basque Gran!

"Didn't you hear, sir? A large number of the officer casualties are coming from their own men."
*shoots*


Though they DID have his front-line awesomeness. Mister Gran...you're wonderful. And you get Worfed like a n00b.

Wrathley did his whole nasty "One man isn't worth ten thousand" thing and his "Where is God if I'm still alive?" thing. Evil man.

And yet, I still admire the guy.

No idea what's going on next episode. Hopefully we'll meet Olivia soon.





And IRL, my whole life is basically welded together by microscopic threads and about to come apart. Yeah.