Armstrong is not that mindless, dammit. I could hope it was a translation problem, but since it was in both the sub and the dub, I doubt it.
Anyway, the pacing in this episode didn't really bother me. It still covers I think an issue and a half of the manga, but it came off more like life goes on whether you like it or not rather than the OMGmustgetthroughthisNOW of some of the other episodes.
I felt like we didn't get to really know Hughes in the manga until the Ishval flashback, and by that time he's been dead for, what, 40-some chapters? He made a really big impact in the few chapters he was in, but in the first anime it was much more tragic because we'd known him for longer, and we knew what he meant to Ed and Al. I'm still not sure, but it seems as if the Scar incident is supposed to be the first time they meet him in the manga. I much prefer the thought that he's known them since Ed was 12.
Ah well - I just smush the canons together where it pleases me, anyway.
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Anyway, the pacing in this episode didn't really bother me. It still covers I think an issue and a half of the manga, but it came off more like life goes on whether you like it or not rather than the OMGmustgetthroughthisNOW of some of the other episodes.
I felt like we didn't get to really know Hughes in the manga until the Ishval flashback, and by that time he's been dead for, what, 40-some chapters? He made a really big impact in the few chapters he was in, but in the first anime it was much more tragic because we'd known him for longer, and we knew what he meant to Ed and Al. I'm still not sure, but it seems as if the Scar incident is supposed to be the first time they meet him in the manga. I much prefer the thought that he's known them since Ed was 12.
Ah well - I just smush the canons together where it pleases me, anyway.