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

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My problem is that I can't seem to associate the movie with the series very much at all.

That's ultimately what I mean, in a way. For me, the FMA movie sub came out nearly a year after the series ended. I'd sat on that ending of Ed and Al reaching toward the sky for a year. For me, the series was finished. It was done. The movie, which we didn't even know would take place after the series (could have been mid-series like Cowboy Bebop), was something that would be cool, but was not (for me) necessary to fullfilling the destiny of the characters. I already had the resolution I wanted, and could happily imagine that yeah, Ed and Al would find each other some day. I didn't need to know exactly how, because I trusted that it was inevitable.

When the movie came out, it was a new and separate creature for me. Yeah, I had spent a year building up expectations, but I also had all those months to distance myself from the end of the series. The movie looked different and felt different (it wasn't really brain-breaking in plot, that's true, but FMA's brain-breakyness relied on its episodic format, which the movie didn't have time to build up again), even though many parts of it felt essentially familiar. Still, most of the movie takes place in Germany, and I gave up trying to think of the Alter!characters as the originals within the first few minutes of the film. They're not the same people (except possibly Gracia), and we can't look at them the same.

...ack! must go. I have more to add later.