i greatly enjoyed this episode, even if the "we take over one of your friends and make you fight the body" bad guy move is one of the most overused.

the highlight for me was Grumman. not only did he show a great amount of surprisingly vicious ambition, but all his logic is rock solid (and you know he has to have a hunch about how everything is still working in the military even though Bradley is gone). I also love any guy who says "I need to see the body".

Heinkel and Darius really made this fight. Then Lin had a good entry, and, of course, Lan Fan comes to the rescue (so where's the old ninja?). Made me chuckle when Ed cried "I'm just a normal guy!" because he really is the least special of the entire group when it comes to something like this. guess it goes to show that people are totally useless when they're blind.

also, well, dudes, we don't really know Lan Fan's past, but she was definitely trained from a young age and, yeah, she's had to learn to fight with only one arm, not minus an arm and a leg, AND she's significantly older than Ed was when he got his automail. also, with The Eclipse nigh, there's not like we could get a Bleach training arc out of her...

what the fuck is hoenheim doing? get involved, dude!