Thing is, I like the manga's character designs. She does tend toward wide (and round) faces, but they work for me. Ed is freakin' gorgeous (http://www.onemanga.com/Full_Metal_Alchemist/81/35/) and so very male, and Roy's pretty hot, too (http://www.onemanga.com/Full_Metal_Alchemist/87/13/). He did get moon-faced for a while (even Arakawa admits that), but it doesn't seem like they pulled that for the new anime, anyway. So in theory, I should like the character designs in Brotherhood. But I don't. Something about Ed and Roy bug me. I think part of the problem with Ed is his weirdly glowing hair (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/pandoraculpa/FMA/179.jpg), but even taking that into account, it's like nothing that I liked about the character designs in the manga made the transition.

I think I could look past the character designs if the storytelling was good, I've done it with animation before. But in this episode, it really wasn't.