[Anime] Episode 51: ...

[eabandit]

i loved it. i would rather the vagueness of dante's fate be cleaned up just simply by showing Al let loose and kick the shit out of her... but being done in by her own creation (possibly? or maybe shes still alive) was alright as well...

[Avarice]

haha that WAS a good ending. but to get this straight, there is no title for this episode? it's just called "???"?

[f00l]

nice ending but it over.........

thanks for summarizing this episode and thanks to the other people who summarized past episodes.........its been a good ride

[Stellae]

Spoiler:

I'm confused... how did Mustang randomly end up with an injured eye and needing a cane to walk with, when he injured mostly his arm and chest where Pride stabbed him? And why did he bother pulling out Selim when it seems like he was dead... maybe he did something to save him and it cost Mustang his eye? o_O?

[IMSabbel]

Hm. So in the end, ed landed in munich 1921... and the movie plays 2 years later...
I only remember one thing that happened 1923, in munich: Hitlers first action to claim power, the beer hall putch.
Normaly, i would discard that idea, but hey, we had fucking zeppelins in episode 49/50, so anything goes...

[DNE]

Originally Posted by f00l

nice ending but it over.........

thanks for summarizing this episode and thanks to the other people who summarized past episodes.........its been a good ride

on the bright side, Seed 2 is airing now instead

[louie2004]

Originally Posted by IMSabbel

Hm. So in the end, ed landed in munich 1921... and the movie plays 2 years later...
I only remember one thing that happened 1923, in munich: Hitlers first action to claim power, the beer hall putch.
Normaly, i would discard that idea, but hey, we had fucking zeppelins in episode 49/50, so anything goes...

well the yr and place that ed landed did make me have a deep thinking.
I am sure that the editors of the anime want to carry out some special messages by placing ed in 1922Munich,and my guess is the same as you,it may be something related to german politics or hitler's story.Anyway,i am looking forward to the movie next year and i'm happy to see if the movie continue the story ended in Munich1922.

[jonny-mt]

Originally Posted by Sonhex

Thought the ending was very well done, managed to capture the spirit of the series and didn't seem rushed. BONES actually did the impossible and tied up most of the plot threads superbly and left a few for the movie...

Spoiler:

...Dante and Gluttony's fate seems purposely vague, guess we'll see them in the movie. Same with Envy passing through the Gate and changing into a Green Serpent was wierd.

Bradley killing his son was the real shocker for me, I wasn't expecting that. He seemed like a devoted father. But it reiterates the fact that he's an evil sadistic bastard and Roy did the job of killing him well.

Of course, it's great Al got his body back. The fact he cannot remember the last 4 years is also a good thing, he's seen so many horrors and been through so many disturbing events that he deserves a 'clean' start. Unfortunately it will be without Ed, but then the movie will follow that story...

Most importantly it gives us a really good premise for the movie, hopefully taking it in a new and welcome direction. Look forward to it...

Spoiler:

The Fuhrer attacking his son was actually really cool. If you remember, he gave him the key a couple of episodes ago, telling him that what was in the vault was his life and that it was now his son's job to protect it. The son came back because he had to get it and then found the Fuhrer in the blaze with Mustang...you'll notice that when the kid looks up at him and asks what's wrong, the Fuhrer isn't looking so hot.

If you're a homunculus and you know where a part of your original body is, it makes a lot of sense that you'd want to be the only one to have access to it.

[Gatts]

Originally Posted by Stellae

Spoiler:

I'm confused... how did Mustang randomly end up with an injured eye and needing a cane to walk with, when he injured mostly his arm and chest where Pride stabbed him? And why did he bother pulling out Selim when it seems like he was dead... maybe he did something to save him and it cost Mustang his eye? o_O?

Spoiler:

It's likely Archernator just shot him in the head before Riza pwned him. As for the cane, who knows, you'd probably need one after taking a shot like that...

[Whisky]

Originally Posted by IMSabbel

Hm. So in the end, ed landed in munich 1921... and the movie plays 2 years later...
I only remember one thing that happened 1923, in munich: Hitlers first action to claim power, the beer hall putch.
Normaly, i would discard that idea, but hey, we had fucking zeppelins in episode 49/50, so anything goes...

Hitlers career started already 1919, making propaganda at DAP ( later NSDAP ) and everything started in bavaria, too.
So I think it's munich for a certain reason...

[GryphonZ]

Spoiler:

This is better ending than I though. Good to see Al restore his body. Well done BONES !
...Ah can't wait for the movie XD

[Ed Elric]

I wonder what the next anime BONES will be doing is?

[dew]

Originally Posted by The Small One

Well, there are two possibilities:
The time on our side of the gate flows different than there.
Ed arrived a few years later, when he came the second time.

I'm more surprised, that the Automail seemed to work perfectly. At first it looked like it didn't, but afterwards, he clearly was using this arm.

I certainly didn't get either of those two impressions. Ed was older in the very end of the series. I'm gonna say that the 5 years passed, and this is where they are now.

[gaheris]

Man now we have to wait till next summer to find out what happens next. That wait is too long you would think they would try to get it out sooner but I guess not...

Spoiler:

I like that Al got his body back but still still have questions like will Al get his memory back? WTF happened to Dante? Did Gluttony eat himself and her. I wonder if he can do no circle alchemy? What happened to Envy and what's up with the dragon what is the point of that? And I hope they don't make it about Ed playing some important role in WWI or II something.

[realdeal]

That would be a dumb ending if Al dont get his memory back. Its basically saying that the whole series for him was pointless.

[Reticia]

in can sense a second fma season, not you?
Even if there's a movie, there's too much things that aren't answered

Spoiler:

what happened to dante and gluttony? what about envy? what will happen to wrath? will the 2 brothers be together in the future? What about the tringham brothers? etc, etc.

I can sense it as big as a building

[GryphonZ]

Originally Posted by Reticia

in can sense a second fma season, not you?
Even if there's a movie, there's too much things that aren't answered

Spoiler:

what happened to dante and gluttony? what about envy? what will happen to wrath? will the 2 brothers be together in the future? What about the tringham brothers? etc, etc.

I can sense it as big as a building

I hope so ;D

[DNE]

Spoiler:

k, if that treasure the furhuer has (i cant spell XD) is his body part, how come when he was putting it in the safe, on ep50 , he didnt get paralyzed or anything ?_?

[realdeal]

DNE - plothole

Spoiler:

Im confused, how did Ed end up in london timeline cos when he woke up, he was with rose(roze) and shes in alchemist timeline. Also, I thought he got his body back..and was it explained how Al got his body back too?

[Proto]

Well, I guess we need one of the camp of "I totally hated the ending", and that is me. As always, my problem is Bones having a marvelous ability to build up the antagonists, however, like with Scrapped Princess

Spoiler:

The way they killed Bradley seemed to me like the way they killed the PeaceMakers, specially Shizu... a potentially good character gone to waste, well at least this time they got a reason, they turned him sadistic in the last three seconds

Also, the rest of the antagonists, except for maybe Envy, got all crappy closures, even if it means that some of them could still appear in the movie.

Also, I feel that they should have killed Roy, but it seems they didnt have the guts of it-

And for Archernator, a character they brought out from nowhere so he could do some flashy filler scenes and have some utter meaningless and stupid death.

As with Wolf's Rain

Spoiler:

With the power of Kiba and Cheza we got a.... Brand New World!!! with all the good guys alive

RahXephon

Spoiler:

With the power of RahXephon and the will of Ayato we get a... Brand New World!! with all the good guys and even some of the not so bad alive

and Scrapped Princess

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With the power of the useless pacifica and the indecision of the utter disapointing Masuer we got a... Brand FREE world (wow they were imaginative here) with all the good guys alive and the bad guys totally wasted (wasted in the sense of wasted potential

And now with Full Metal Alchemist we get...

Spoiler:

Two Brand HAPPY worlds.... with almost all the good guys alive, and many of the bad guys utterly wasted again

a beautifully built up series was screwed up (AGAIN) because of time shortage. Congrats Bones, you are getting really good at this.




...Cmon, there is always one who doesnt like it