this was one of the best episodes we've had in a long time.

superb fight scene with Wrath and Greed. very important developments with GreedLin. badass hilarity with the Armstrongs (how fucking funny is that whole family?). fast paced organization with the allies (Grumman looks like he's totally on board). Envy scheming, Mei being too nice, and Ed joining up with Greed.

had all the right blends of humor and seriousness. i love what they did with the message passing toward the end of the episode. really. i can't say it again, this episode was a work of art.

however, i was quite disappointed with Eclipse's translation. i suppose i'm getting to that very dangerous level of knowing just enough Japanese to pick a bone with translators, but not being able to translate myself. but i thought they did a poor job translating the two scenes with Greed, particularly the part about "join us" (lit. Why not become allies/comrades?) to which Greed laughs, "Comrades? Comrades, huh? That'd be nice (sarcastically)". They also did some shit with the scene with him and Bradley, but I suppose, since he was talking in such broken thoughts I can see them having to play with it a bit to get it right.

I dunno... I'm generally always pleased with their work. They're heads above Raze/TMD partly because they don't usually do literal translations. Guess I just need something to bitch about, because the episode was fucking gold.

also really liked the shots they put in at the ED.