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I'm drunk. On rum anc coke. I'll even leave the typoes in for your own amusement. My dad is drunk too. It's rather cute. We're having fun comparing drunken opinions on things.
Am now not drunk, but have to say it's a lot more fun to get drunk with my dad, then with my mum. My mum is a really annoying drunk. That is some very good rum my dad picked up, I have to say. Hurrah for Bacardi Gold.
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ozmaz this evening. We had fun finishing off the last ten eps of Fullmetal Alchemist. I then was my usual evil self and introduced her to One Piece. Incidently, having rewatched it, I can now say how many of hte plot holes in the last season of FMA annoy me. The worst is probably the fact that Envy's real face looks like Hoenheim. This would be fine, if Hoenheim had looked anything like how he does now, 400 years before - but he doesn't, so therefore if that was his real face, Ed shouldn't be able to recognize him.
Second, it's not possible for there to be a copy of Ed walking around our world/AU London (whatever you want to consider it) simply because there was no Hoenheim in their world, or rather their wasn't an immortal Hoenheim since there is a historical alchemist of that name (if I recall correctly) therefore how could there ever have been a the same combination of genes to create the Elric brothers? (though if I understand it correclty, the movie is somehow supporting the idea that their could be a copy of Al around who isn't even related to Ed's body there... *sigh*) The only remote possibility is that the body Hoenheim stole also fell in love with Trisha, but the chances of that without Hoenheim's influence are so slim...
Third is how the series ends with Hoenheim and Ed in Munich in 1921. This is fine until you consider that the only year London was bombed by zeppelins was in 1915 and the early part of 1916. This already messes up the whole fact that the entire series takes place in the 1920s (based on their approximate level of technology and the date on one of the documents Ed is handed somewhere in the season). The only possible explanation is that Ed travelled in time as well as through the gate cause there is no way he'd have hung around his father for 4-5 years before pursuing his own ideas. Of course, it could have been done to even out the two brothers in years since Al has now lost four years in additon to already being younger, but it's still been poorly thought out. And I'm not even ranting about the variable effects of the homonuculi's body parts on their bodies...
Fourth is how they've written themselves into a hole with making alchemy powered by the deaths in the other world. It's a lot like that episode of Star Trek Next Gen where they decided that going over warp factor 7 was polluting the galaxy, then they realized no one could do anything cool unless they could go warp 10 and had to write themselves out of that hole. It's the same in fma since this basically means that every single alchemist is a mass murderer and has been since the moment they made their first dolly or whatever. Remember, every time you fix a radio, you kill a person. *headdesk* Thank god the manga seems to operate on some sort of logic.
My brother just walked in my room and said, "Watching Crocodile fight makes me thirsty." *L* The poor boy has been marathoning One Piece's Arabasta arc since around 4pm... It being 2:20am now.
Am now not drunk, but have to say it's a lot more fun to get drunk with my dad, then with my mum. My mum is a really annoying drunk. That is some very good rum my dad picked up, I have to say. Hurrah for Bacardi Gold.
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ozmaz this evening. We had fun finishing off the last ten eps of Fullmetal Alchemist. I then was my usual evil self and introduced her to One Piece. Incidently, having rewatched it, I can now say how many of hte plot holes in the last season of FMA annoy me. The worst is probably the fact that Envy's real face looks like Hoenheim. This would be fine, if Hoenheim had looked anything like how he does now, 400 years before - but he doesn't, so therefore if that was his real face, Ed shouldn't be able to recognize him. Second, it's not possible for there to be a copy of Ed walking around our world/AU London (whatever you want to consider it) simply because there was no Hoenheim in their world, or rather their wasn't an immortal Hoenheim since there is a historical alchemist of that name (if I recall correctly) therefore how could there ever have been a the same combination of genes to create the Elric brothers? (though if I understand it correclty, the movie is somehow supporting the idea that their could be a copy of Al around who isn't even related to Ed's body there... *sigh*) The only remote possibility is that the body Hoenheim stole also fell in love with Trisha, but the chances of that without Hoenheim's influence are so slim...
Third is how the series ends with Hoenheim and Ed in Munich in 1921. This is fine until you consider that the only year London was bombed by zeppelins was in 1915 and the early part of 1916. This already messes up the whole fact that the entire series takes place in the 1920s (based on their approximate level of technology and the date on one of the documents Ed is handed somewhere in the season). The only possible explanation is that Ed travelled in time as well as through the gate cause there is no way he'd have hung around his father for 4-5 years before pursuing his own ideas. Of course, it could have been done to even out the two brothers in years since Al has now lost four years in additon to already being younger, but it's still been poorly thought out. And I'm not even ranting about the variable effects of the homonuculi's body parts on their bodies...
Fourth is how they've written themselves into a hole with making alchemy powered by the deaths in the other world. It's a lot like that episode of Star Trek Next Gen where they decided that going over warp factor 7 was polluting the galaxy, then they realized no one could do anything cool unless they could go warp 10 and had to write themselves out of that hole. It's the same in fma since this basically means that every single alchemist is a mass murderer and has been since the moment they made their first dolly or whatever. Remember, every time you fix a radio, you kill a person. *headdesk* Thank god the manga seems to operate on some sort of logic.
My brother just walked in my room and said, "Watching Crocodile fight makes me thirsty." *L* The poor boy has been marathoning One Piece's Arabasta arc since around 4pm... It being 2:20am now.
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I've seen this one remarked upon by various other people, with two fudged explanations: 1) Hohenheim tended to choose bodies with the same general physical type or 2) Envy chose a face that looked like the Hohenheim Ed knew, since freaking out Ed was really the point of the face. But I tend to agree that this was just a good old continuity mistake.
I worried less about the gate issues that you note, largely because the gate itself is such a vortex of worldbuilding handwavy-ness in the first place. We know so little about how it works--especially given that what we do know mostly comes from an entirely unreliable narrator, Hohenheim--that it's hard to argue that it breaks its own logic. With English!Ed, I couldn't figure out if we were suppose to think he was identical to Ed or simply similar enough that Ed's spirit, having been thrown through the gate, was attracted to it. With the gate, I think I'm probably too used to the conventions of fantasy: the idea that time can run differently on both sides of something like the gate doesn't phase me after having read things like the Narnia books, with the wardrobe. (And the idea of time running differently in different places goes all the way back to those folk tales of people lured into hills by fairies and coming out to find that eighty years have passed.)
As for the alchemy running on death thing: is it actually said that acts of alchemy *cause* deaths on the other side of the gate? Because Ed didn't consciously kill the boy to power his alchemy; the English boy was already dying due to the zeppelin crash and Ed used the death to get back to his own world. In other words, are the alchemists tapping into a power that's already there--because people on the other side of the gate are always going to be dying of natural or historical causes anyway--or are they indeed, like the various makers of the Philosopher's Stone, causing deaths of individuals who would have lived longer without the interference of alchemists? I didn't think that was made clear, but perhaps I just missed it. And either way, I think alchemy is still a morally dubious pursuit, but there are degrees of evilness.