Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Full Metal Angry
Hey all, and hello to you from the snobosphere. No review this week. I just finished FMA cause it took them two frikkin years to release all the disks... and I just can't write I am so full of dissapointment. In short, the ending is a seriously wet noodle. A classic example of how an ending can sometimes poison an otherwise really good show. It's not terrible, it's just been done before. Also I am very busy celebrating my super wife's awesome birthday. She's 29, thanks for asking. She's going to flip when she sees all the awesome loot I got for her. Heh heh. At any rate Happy Birthday to you, babe! I'll see the rest of you next week. Maybe.
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Where to start?
FMA was cool, new, relatively untouched territory and I enjoyed it up to the last few disks. Even then, at disk ten or so I held out hope. After all, there were so many interesting odds and ends to tie up, how could it not be exciting.
I never considered that it could be both boring and dumb by ditching a bunch of those interesting plot points and breaking down a la Shinji Ikari of Eva fame.
First, who the hell said they could kill Winry's character? Who ever thought that'd pass by without incurring my wrath, step up, you have a beating coming. Why, why, why dear god in heaven, did you have to make her an unncecessary accessory to the plot? She was gutsy, she was loyal, she was getting involved where she wasn't wanted and then... nothing. Boo.
Why the hell name the homunculi after the seven deadly sins? I figured that they'd explain at some point but they never did. Second on the homunculi front - why did Wrath's "true face" look like Ed and Al's dad? He was supposed to be the first of the seven, which would make him OLD - so old that it was only HoL's soul that was around. Certainly his storyline body wasn't related nor was it even born at the time. WTF? There's no way that the two, Wrath and HoL should have resembled one another.
Regarding the other homunculi, why did Lust get bothered by a locket and not her actual body parts like the rest of the gang? Oh yes, the rest of the gang - we have Pride, Lust, Envy, Wrath, Greed, Gluttony, and Sloth but not many of them seem to live up to their namesake. I would have liked it better if they had or at least given some lame explaination (Gee, I liked sinning, so...).
My final bitch-fest about the side character's stories is how the dumped fulfillment of both Bradley's and Archer's plots. Really, would it have killed you to have said how Archer ended up turned into robocop or how the warfront turned out? That was sloppiness, plain and simple.
Also, the gate blows cancerous donkey dicks. Who cares about London and Munich? Not I. I wanted something magical, something scary, something interesting - NOT something vaugely ironic.
Truth be told I could go on and on about the multitude of other small things that disgusted me about the way FMA ended, but there's really only one that I think it worth considering.
Studio Bones, the "power house" behind FMA, has at least one other series in their history of running out of creative steam when the reach the end of a series. Scrapped Princess had the same sort of blah-ending. I wonder if this is a coincidence or a far-reaching tendency to ruin stuff that I start to love. I'll tell you one thing - its making me look at Wolf's Rain with sorrow and I haven't watched an episode yet.
Do BETTER, I know you have the potential Studio Bones! Apply yourself and reap the rewards!
Blah,
Una-Sama
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