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Mar. 17th, 2004 at 9:30 PM

I had a bad dream yesterday, and it pretty much coloured chunks of my day. It isn't so much as distressing as the fact that it does reveal just how insecure I am. Not that it's anything new, but I really didn't like the fact that my sub-conscious ambushed me in such a way. Not happy. Otherwise, feeling sick, I suspect my blood pressure at the moment is much too high. Oh well.

RL have pretty much taken over everything for the past few weeks, but I feel a break coming soon, either in my attention span or just the fact that I can finally get my hands on more anime. So, while half of my friendlist watch ep 23 of FMA I sit back and try to avoid the spoilers like the wild coyote trying to avoid falling anvils. So far I'm winning.

But having said that, I'm not in much of a hurry to watch FMA (ep19 onward). It is not because I don't like the series (I do, I do), but rather it is because I don't want my guesses coming true, like the one I made of Hughes as soon as I saw him on the monitor.

Now, it's more of a waiting game to see when the anime reach the same conclusions as I, though there's always hope that it won't be as grim as foresee it to be. But if FMA does back out of right ending than I might as well hightail out of the fandom right now. Endings can break or make a series, and I feel it is more so in FMA's case.

So, lets cross our fingers.

Mood: tired

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Mar. 18th, 2004 12:12 am (UTC)

Bite your tongue. Bad, bad. Don't jinx oneself (or the show).

As bad as my premonitions for the future are, I doubt the anime producers will push for a Bebop-ish ending (or a 'Now and There Here and There' or 'Berserk') ending. The series, while sometime dark and traumatic, is still a story of a quest, of hope and redemption.

You can put the characters through crap, but there must be an overall happish ending. Since Ed still has so much to learn, and so much to udnerstand, he can't die. Yet. Same for Al.

Though, if push come to shove, you can kill one of the Elric brothers, but not both.

Also, on an intrinstic level, FMA isn't about death nor 'cruel world' (though it has its moments) it's about transmutation. It is the change of matter into something else, the release of energy, and if they are going to go the way of Everything leads to Death I might as well just go and watch paint dry.

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worldserpent.livejournal.com wrote:

Mar. 18th, 2004 01:23 am (UTC)

Now and Then Here and There didn't kill off the hero, though. The ending was somewhat redemptive: what's her name didn't commit suicide, and they inexplicably to my mind allowed the evil facist dictactor's second in command to live. (Whoa, someone else who has seen it?! Damn, I think it's one of those series that people have got to see, like Giant Robo, but no one has)

I do seriously doubt that it will be a CB ending, however. I'm actually not sure what it's leading up to now, though, or how they will go about restoring Al, now that the Sins have told him that human transumation requires humans.

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Mar. 18th, 2004 01:52 am (UTC)

Total agreement the series need to be seen by all. It's one of the few shows that went for the guts, and yet instead of getting angsty, it just got more and more grim. I felt so dried up after the series, but it was sooo good. And I MAD RABU 'Giant Robo'! It need to be seen, best of Japanese pop culture and ideology with mad 70's fashion, and 60's science. How can you -not- watch it. I love that series!

Anyways, moving on. True, the main hero didn't die, but then we weren't really expecting him to die. Personally, I was hoping the second in command would die, as for the rest... well, the ones who deserved die (and the ones who didn't) pretty much all died. (man, that last sentence had problems).

No CB ending. Which is all good, and make us all happy ^__^ (love CB, but the ending, the ending, meh). I'd love it if Scar do the heroic thing and sacrifice himself. I mean it does make a circular logic (and circular endingsd, if done right is always a treat). Scar can't have his brother back anymore, and it isn't like he has much to live for, and come on, Ed deserve to get Al back.

I hold by the belief that Al will eventually get his body back, but I doubt Ed will get his arm and leg back. In fact I hope he doesn't get them back. For pure personal reasons ^_^

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