Brotherhood - again

[dragonimp]

Wait, wait - did they just cut out that whole scene between Lust and Marcoh? What? That scene was rather important for several reasons. When it wasn't in ep. 6 I was hoping they'd moved it to ep. 7, but it barely got a mention.

I'm really disappointed with their storytelling decisions. It seems that if it isn't an action sequence, then they rush to get through it. Um, hello? It's the characters and the story that make FMA so great. But even aside from that, they're condensing it to the point where key elements of the plot and story no longer make sense.

So far we've had one good episode, a handful of decent ones, and a few that I'd rather pretend didn't exist. Why are people squeeing over this? FMA deserves better.

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[beautifulfic]

:\ I haven't watched any of it yet. I'm not sure if I will or not. Perhaps it'll get better?

At least the fandom's getting some new life from it. I've had several readers who say they're coming in from FMA:B.

B xxx

[dragonimp]

I was starting to wonder if we'd see an increase, since I haven't been seeing new people on the communities.

I'm probably more critical of it than most people ^^. I nitpick habitually. It's worth watching - well, most of the episodes are - but it has some big failings in terms of storytelling. I'm hoping that once they get into territory not covered by the first anime they'll stop rushing through things.

[hikaru-9.livejournal.com]

.... spoiled ;_;

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

spoiled?

[hikaru-9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i've haven't seen this week's episode yet. ;_; and i didn't realized the entry had spoilers till it was too late. :F

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

Aaaah sorry :( I didn't think an exclusion would count as a spoiler, I usually try to be more careful than that.

[hikaru-9.livejournal.com]

The problem is that since FMA: B draws so heavily from the manga, it's more about how they are telling the story, what makes it in, and what doesn't, then the actual story itself.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

Yah, that's a good point. For this post it'd probably be locking the barn after the horses are gone, but I'll keep that in mind for future weeks.

[hikaru-9.livejournal.com]

Thanks <3