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!

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For me the characters of the movie, particularly Edward and Alphonse were what the movie was about, more than resolution of the alchemy/gate stuff. The movie spent a lot of attention on Edward's mindset and the Ed/Al relationship, and I was very pleased with what they did there. They didn't put enough focus on the other characters and certain plot points were weaker than what we saw in the series, but overall I was satisfied plot-wise, and character-wise I was thrilled, because so much attention was given to Ed and Al. Again, the stuff with Roy and his group was the weakest part, but I sort of resolved to ignore it, because mentally editing it into post-series canon is kind of weird and difficult.

Anyway, what I mean is, I didn't expect the movie to be episode 52. A lot of people expect that, but I never liked that analogy. If they'd wanted it to be episode 52, they'd have made a 52nd episode. The movie and the series ARE different, and I look at them differently.