Hell yeah awesome!
Hell yeah awesome!
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"Always be yourself... unless you suck."
What happened to eclipse's website?
Huh? It's there. http://eclipse.speedsubs.org/Originally Posted by Archangel
Forgot to add, Scar is fucking badass!
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"Always be yourself... unless you suck."
I still can't understand why Ed doesn't use Scar's attacking method all the time. It looks like the most effective way ever to fight using alchemy.
It would make Scar less special if every alchemist, or at least the main character, fights exactly like him.
I wonder what happens when you take out so much carbon to your skin.....
Lack of HCO- might give you blood too acidic for normal enzyme functions.
Going along with BoC's comments about characters not gaining abilities that would make others less special, wouldn't apply to Al too if he suddenly knew more truth than Ed?
I don't think Al's going to get much of his memory back.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
It would hardly make this the first shounen anime, where the main character learned something from an enemy, who is stronger than him.
But I guess some characters just need to prefer half-dying and losing to copying an enemy's technique and winning. That sure makes 'em special (even if in a very bad way). But then again, I always hated FMA, so my opinions are biased by default.
Another thing that comes to mind is wtf Greed was thinking.
Unless he means he's got a limited lifespan, that body beats a transfixed soul anyday.
We've already seen the fundamental flaw in walking in empty armour.
Even if it wasn't controllable, Scar's technique, as well as other Alchemy techniques can just smash it down. Since Alchemy is about destroying and rebuilding matter, anybody with an ability to alter metal would kill you.
If you can't have indestructibility, the next best thing you can hope for is regeneration.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Wtf? Didn't it used to be http://eclipse.no-sekai.de/ ?
They changed their website some months ago after Funi-crap-motion tried to shut them down.
Scar didnt specifically say he wanted an armor as a body, just something like "if its done right, one could live forever/become immortal", or am i remembering wrong?
Perhaps he already has some super-uber object or body he wants to transfer his soul to? ;P
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That would get rid of his "easily incapacitated" part, but he'd be less indestructible without his body IMO.
Unless people stay calm and think deeply about how his current carbon armour works, they won't get through it. Objects, meanwhile, have properties that are relatively known my folks, and would lead to an easier defeat.
Who knows. Maybe he has some weird superobject in place like you said.
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No one else found it weird that the dirty politician made an appearance without that story arc being shown?
They can simply show it as a flashback later if the need arises instead of wasting an entire episode to such a minor side-story.
They showed a newspaper article about it in a previous episode, but first time watchers will be confused as to why he wants revenge against the brothers so badly.
Is this that crook who came to get Scar? I can't say I want to know any more about him. Seems too chicken to make much of a good villian.
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This is close to the part of the story that bored me in the last series. Roa -- the army looking guy -- is pretty cool though.
I'm with Buffalobiian about Greed -- what was the thinking? -- but for different reasons. He and Edward could have settled things peacefully if he had said, "Well, I didn't want to use force. We just want to talk about something important. I just want your secret, and I will give you mine." and untied Al. Heck, I'm sure Al would have stayed if he had said that before Ed got there.
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"After all, I am strangely colored."
Ah, but a key fact that you're forgetting is the infamous taboo the Elric brothers have committed - that of reviving their mother. I am pretty sure it's been established now that trying to recreate a human through alchemy (artificially in Eclipse's subs) ultimately produces a homunculus as opposed to what nature intended (shown in the Rush Valley episode).
Anyway, because Ed and Al have disdain themselves for transmuting a homunculus, I speculate it is in their nature to distrust all homunculus. After all, they have also had a recent and awful encounter with other homunculus with the Ouroboros Tattoo at Research Laboratory 5. Why should Ed trust Greed, another homunculus, who kidnapped Al to lure Ed into an apparent trap?
That's analogous to me kidnapping your wife to lure you into my lair surrounded by very suspicious henchmen so I can talk to you about an exchange of information like stock portfolios and celebrity gossip. Bad example, I know.
Also, what makes Greed think that he's dealing with honest people? Al can put up a decent fight against his own henchmen and it would be troubling to take on two people at once if Greed was fighting them. If he were to untie Al, Ed and Al might team up against you...after all, they are notoriously stereotyped State Alchemists (they seem to have annihilated Scar's village) who are beckoned at the command of the Fuehrer/Fuhrer.
Greed didn't kidnap Al to lure Ed into a trap. Greed wanted to talk. He was hoping that Al had the secret for affixing souls. Al didn't know the secret, but was very interested in learning about homunculi because it requires making an artificial body. Artificial body + soul affixing = "human". The way Al sounded, he seemed like he would have made the deal himself, if he knew the secret.
Also, Al was the one who attacked Greed's henchmen. The henchmen just asked him to come over for a talk, about things they shouldn't be talking about in public. Al was just a whiny little kid. Using force to make Al move was bad. But it could have been solved with an apology, especially since nobody got hurt.
Yes, and I if I got there during a rescue operation my wife was not tied up, calm, and said that it was a misunderstanding and that they had vital information for us, I wouldn't just attack. Of course, Greed would have had to let go of Al for it to have been "just a misunderstanding". Which is what I was getting at.That's analogous to me kidnapping your wife to lure you into my lair surrounded by very suspicious henchmen so I can talk to you about an exchange of information like stock portfolios and celebrity gossip. Bad example, I know.
That's a risk you take when you make any kind of deal. Greed was still trying to make a deal, and Ed rejected it, because Greed was trying to use strong arm negotiation tactics. This is my point. Greed was willing to take that risk. But he should have done it in good faith.Also, what makes Greed think that he's dealing with honest people? Al can put up a decent fight against his own henchmen and it would be troubling to take on two people at once if Greed was fighting them. If he were to untie Al, Ed and Al might team up against you...after all, they are notoriously stereotyped State Alchemists (they seem to have annihilated Scar's village) who are beckoned at the command of the Fuehrer/Fuhrer.
"After all, I am strangely colored."
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