FMA timeline question!
Oct. 26th, 2005 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI jsut had a thought. I've been laboring under a miscomprehension about the timelines/ages for the FMA characters in the anime v. the movie.
Ed's not 18 in the movie, he's 20-21. Al's not 12, he's 14-15. (and looks it.)
I know the movie takes place two years after the end of the anime. But I (and others) have forgotten the date we get at the end of episode 51, in the scene with Hohenheim in the market. Two-three years pass between the stuff with the zepplins and then the date of the scene in the market. Then another two years have to pass to get the date we have for the movie. Think about it.
Which means it's also been 4-5 years for the FMA characters too, like Mustang and Hawkeye and Armstrong.
Because "2 years after the end of the anime" means literally 2 years after the END of the anime.
Huh.
If I'm wrong, explain the whole date thing to me.
... Unless there was a time jump on Earth side, and Ed pulled himself through the gate in 1918 (WWI!) and then when he traded himself for Alphonse, he landed in 1921 instead? I was under the impression that the timelines for both worlds passed at a parallel rate. But if that's true, then Edward is 20-21 in the movie. Because the end of the anime actually has him at 18. It also explains why in some of the Alphonse scenes in episode 51, he looks more like 12 than 10. And why Winry looked so mature in the film.
What do you think?
Ed's not 18 in the movie, he's 20-21. Al's not 12, he's 14-15. (and looks it.)
I know the movie takes place two years after the end of the anime. But I (and others) have forgotten the date we get at the end of episode 51, in the scene with Hohenheim in the market. Two-three years pass between the stuff with the zepplins and then the date of the scene in the market. Then another two years have to pass to get the date we have for the movie. Think about it.
Which means it's also been 4-5 years for the FMA characters too, like Mustang and Hawkeye and Armstrong.
Because "2 years after the end of the anime" means literally 2 years after the END of the anime.
Huh.
If I'm wrong, explain the whole date thing to me.
... Unless there was a time jump on Earth side, and Ed pulled himself through the gate in 1918 (WWI!) and then when he traded himself for Alphonse, he landed in 1921 instead? I was under the impression that the timelines for both worlds passed at a parallel rate. But if that's true, then Edward is 20-21 in the movie. Because the end of the anime actually has him at 18. It also explains why in some of the Alphonse scenes in episode 51, he looks more like 12 than 10. And why Winry looked so mature in the film.
What do you think?
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Date: 2005-10-27 02:56 am (UTC)For some reason I was under the impression that the timelines didn't quite sync up, but now I can't remember for the life of me why I thought that was so.
I think it's the Fox News syndrome, applied to fandom as a whole.
So we hear that the movie's coming out, and that it will be set 2 years after the movie. Before anything else comes out, and long before the end of the series, we're already assuming Ed will be 18. So that's the idea. And then the anime ends, and due to vague transitions, it's difficult to tell about the passage of time in episode 51. Fandom collectively assumes, for some reason I can't fathom, that although in the entire 50 episodes previous the FMA world has been running on a calendar exactly parallel to our turn of the century calendar, and though the timelines for their 1918 perfectly match ours when Ed and Hohenheim go through the gate... somehow that all changed randomly in the 51st episode and Ed actually jumps three years into the future landing in 1921.
Now one sight reports he'll be 18 in the movie, and then another, and then another. Until they're all saying the same thing and nobody bothers to look at the source material and say "Wait a minute, they give us a date right here, plain as day, obviously he can't be 18." Instead they just repeat what they've heard.
Voila, fanon has been achieved!
All seems unnecessarily complicated to me.