FMA 107 thoughts

[cornerofmadness]

Need I say spoilers. I wrote these comments as I read so sometimes I answered myself



Greed is probably lucky Riza and Olivia are wounded or he’d be needing his ultimate shield after that comment about two chicks going away

I see Olivia has been promoted to ruler (her excellency) by her people

Greed it’s very funny no one is listening to you at all. Some Emperor you’llmake

Hmmm I didn’t expect Olivia and Scar to be left behind, injured or not. Of course Scar is about to die…

Oh fuck Mei isn’t dead yet. Damn it all to hell. Why won’t Mei Sue die??

Oh no, Alphonse!! And to protect little Mary Sue Mei-chan? Really not worth your sacrifice, sweetie.

Ed…yeah, you wrecked your arm again. Even if you GET yours back I give it a year before you lope it off by accident. Did you notice your brother is in pieces or where you blasted into a different quadrant. I’m betting on the latter.

How amused am I that Father is a shrimp?

Yay as anticipated Roy can clap and do alchemy now. Go team Royai! You rock hard.

Ling, you and Greed make my day, just saying

Armstrong you’re great too…thought your eyes are almost too close together jus like Ed’s.

Yay, I predicted Father would try to pull Greed back out of Ling. Go me.

Um Roy are you just trying ONE blast? You did so much better against ENVY. WTF? Pretend this dude killed Maes or something buddy. Ed’s getting torn the hell up.

Roy are you hiding UNDER Riza? Umm…

See Ed, this is what I mean. Now your good arm is wrecked? Pretty soon you’re going to be nothing but automail. What is it with you and rebar? Must you fall on it every time?

And once again fucking Mei Sue has perfect aim to save the day. I’m so beyond sick of this I’m getting glad we’re near the end. I can’t handle much more of Ed and Al fucking up and needing her to save them. And seriously Roy and Armstrong seem uninjured (unless I missed something) WHY are they just standing around?

I have so many problems with Al’s sacrifice. I really really do. It shouldn’t be possible to give Ed back his arm. Hell Winry HAD to have taken more of the arm off to get the automail jack on. There should be a gap between his arm and the rest of his shoulder plate. There should be a human arm just lying there.

I know ultimately that this is Ed’s fight. But it just doesn’t work for me that the rest of them are just standing around with their thumbs up their asses.

I do feel sorry for Greed, I really do. He’s always tried to make friends but his nature gets in his way


I'm completely and totally conflicted by this. So much I did like but ulimately...huge chunks of it didn't work for me. I wanted Ed and Al to work this out on their own. ANd yes Al made the sacrifice but not on his own and that's what bothers me. I can't help feel profounded betrayed by this. You know if it had been anyone but Mei maybe it wouldn't have bothered me so but no, we have multiple injured but still in the fight Alchemists standing around doing nothing and we need Mei to save the day. If I went thru this I'm sure we'd see a shocking number of times she did this. It's not her story. She shouldn't be the only one with abilities and answers.






ETA - hopefully i'm not coming across as too bitchy. I've strong opinions (and I'm in a bad mood so maybe I AM being a little more strident than necessary)

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I have to think an I-Beam would be even more damaging but yes he was out of commission for a while. Gut wounds are dirty nasty things.

i think it bugged me that they stopped fighting when Father destroyed Armstrong's cocoon. ah well.

yes I was wondering about that. Al pretty much has to live. I'm not sure i'd ever trust Arakawa again if Ed and Al both die at the end of this

[raceulfson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they do some crazy impossible stuff but Arakawa does tend to make them pay with hospital stays and such. I've never read another manga where so many characters actually spend time with doctors. At least she tries.

Oh, I never even considered Ed or Al dying. I would fly to Japan and cry on her personally if she did that. With snot bubbles.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes she does try. She hurts them and they get scars or never walk again or go blind...that's better than most.

yeah I've considered them both dying. not all stories have happy endings...but mostly I rather wish they had at least a semi-happy one...is also very afraid of Roy/Riza dying. I might never recover