FMA dub episode 50

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Episode 50 discussion, page 10: the exact page on the AS boards where people blow their tops. Aahhh, I remember that viewing experience. There was screaming and freaking out galore.

Fantastic performance with the dub, just like the last few episodes. My only sadness is that Ed's line "Don't fuck with me!" was changed to something a little more tv-safe. Will it be on the DVD, one hopes?

To my great pleasure, they didn't cut out either of the two really bloody scenes in this episode, the one with Wrath and the one at the end. I'd been wondering how they were going to handle it considering you simply CAN'T edit those scenes out and expect the episode's events to make sense, and AS had edited things weaker than that before. I guess by the time they got this far they just threw their hands in the air and said "Aw, screw it! This show's too gorey to fix. We'll just have to play it as is."

Ooh, and a very amusing/traumatic link: Click here only if you've seen episode 50 and need to scream. This is the spoiler of all spoilers. Well, the second-best spoiler of all spoilers cause nothing tops alternate universe zepplins.

EDIT: This is either the best or worst FMA shirt I've ever seen.


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geglash: Okay, okay, here's my theory: Ed isn't dead. Can't possibly be. No way in hell. The show will think up some slippery sh*t to get him out of it................

........and everyone will live happily ever after (except f*cking Envy, he'll drown in a pool of lava) and eat lollipops and snuggle puppies and la la la la la.....*curls into fetal position*.............la la la la la la la la la la la.........
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"pool of lava" is so nicely original and graphic.


WARNING! Spoilers for episode 51/finale in the comments below!

Comments

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Having not seen more than five episodes of Eva, I cannot weigh in with an informed opinion.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

It's been too many years since I watched it. I remember thinking he was a waste of human spit, though. Hohenheim at least gives the impression of loving his children (I'm still not sure he loved them as much as he SAYS he does), whereas Gendo pretty much saw his son Shinji as the broken, spasming body of a fly on the winshield of destiny or something.

Random observation: Eva had the worst ending in the history of anime.

[ciardhapagan.livejournal.com]

Yep, and the multiple movie/OVA rewrites just make it even worse. I think it's rather pathetic that Anno keeps doing it over and over and it just get more poorly written each time.

Contrast that to Takeuchi (Sailor Moon, manga was okay, anime she had no say in, reworked it gradually through the various musical incarnations, and then did have partial creative control on the live action and really put a great retelling. She had years to refine the characters and give them more depth (and darker sides- on the heroes sides, or more sympathic sides- on the villians.) Best live action team show I've ever seen! Don't want to spoil it too much, I highly recommend it! While the anime only got a marginly positive review for me and that was because of Haruka and Michiru in "seasons" 3 and 5. The live action doesn't even get to the "outers" but I love how Makoto (Jupiter) has grown characterwise. She's almost Buffy-like at times. Makoto was my favorite of the inners from the manga and anime and I absolutely loved her character in the live action. People who only saw the anime (where Takeuchi, rather unusually, complained at how little like her characters, especially the inners, were to how they were in the manga. The live action builds from the manga personalities but goes a lot deeper. There's definitely an influence of Buddhism in the live action version, where it was subtle in the manga, absent in the anime.)