Isn't it? He goes from woe-is-me to determined and resourceful. I kinda felt like "Ohai Roy, I'd wondered where you'd gone."

Presumably he was off looking for better translators while a carboard cutout did a stand in for him.

Winry's line annoys me a whole lot less without the "I wouldn't want a boring guy" undertones.

Yay for lack of entitlement!