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Chels

Man, Brotherhood is good, but episodes like this one make me miss the original. I just don't understand some of the choices they made for the remake. What came to mind from this episode is that in the OG, the show starts from when they're kids and their mom gets sick and dies, so we get to slowly go through that part of their journey with them, and this episode reminds me of when they first set Ed up with automail. I feel like it was such an important scene to see what lengths they would go through even as children. Ed barely waited to heal before he got his automail and went into a very long surgery (awake) and when they were connecting the nerves, he was screaming but was so determined to get through it and he was only around 9 or 10 at the time. Such a good scene, it's a shame it was cut from Brotherhood. The scene when they burned the house down was also very impactful.

Lela

yeah I only ever watched the og anime but I heard people raving about brotherhood for years and the consensus seems to be that brotherhood is way better but I also remember how their past and the Nina storyline were way more fleshed out in the og and I was more emotionally invested

Nikki

I think Ed’s character feels very different to me between the OG and Brotherhood. The actions and motivation is technically the same, but the way his personality is expressed feels extremely different. In the OG at least the thought process or emotions behind Ed are fleshed out so much more. For example like how ruthless he can be like you mentioned above, but also how he truly doesn’t understand fully the implications of the consequences of becoming a state alchemist. There’s none of the whole struggle depicted in the OG about the State Alchemist title where Mustang is both the person who provides the resources to do it and gives Ed the idea in the first place while also trying to in a way ‘discourage’ him from it in a sense after the fact. There’s also none of the original work Ed was sort of forced into doing as a state alchemist by Mustang besides the city in episode 3 but even then it doesn’t show Rose’s boyfriend thing and how horrible it actually was. It sets up the characters in a way to make them more human and sympathetic to them.

Haruto Yuzuki

You have to remember that they rushed the first 10ish episodes kinda like DBZ and DBZ Kai because it was already aired and it was probably so people would still be the OG. I might be wrong but im pretty sure they wanted it to end roughly the same time as the Light Novels and Manga... I remember being extremely hyped because it was the first time ive experienced a adaptation ending sooo close to the Manga unlike Naruto/Bleach/One Piece at the time when they were a year or two behind... (I searched up the release dates) the LN ended April 2010, the Manga ended June 2010 and the anime ended July 2010

Alexandre

It's kind of Brotherhood's original sin. When it got made, the assumption was that anyone watching it would have already watched the 2003 adaptation, and so they cut a lot of corners at first. And as time went on and Brotherhood's reputation as "the right adaptation" got cemented, that assumption proved to be more and more wrong. Plus, I feel like the pacing issues remained even after they passed the divergent point, still rushing parts of volumes 5-15 (which is a shame, because I think those are FMA at its absolute best), before slowing to a crawl as Brotherhood got dangerously close to catching up to the published chapters.

Juan Carlos Jaimes Jr.

I don't know if anyone told you, but you have to pause the endings carefully. Sometimes, they have an after-credit scene. At least here, it looks like you missed an important one. I'm not sure if this scene will reappear in later episodes. Once you react to Ed's arm failing, we will determine if you watched that ending scene. If you get confused by what Winry says on the phone in a later episode, it's because you also missed this ending scene.