FMA. MOVIE. PLOT. FINALLY. >____
I thought that the FMA fans on my friend's list might be interested in reading THIS!!!! if they haven't seen it already. (If you haven't finished the series yet, please refrain from clicking the link ^__^;;).
Germany, 1923. ALTER!AL!!!!!! I DON'T THINK THAT THERE ARE ANY WORDS THAT CAN DESCRIBE HOW HAPPY THE IDEA OF ED HANGING OUT WITH ALTER!AL MAKES ME! PLUS the implications that there will be "Our World" versions of the other characters INCLUDING THE SINS! I don't think I can describe how happy this entire article makes me, since I am having a random bout of faith that this movie will be worth it.
And our world's Al is studying under Hermann Oberth? Al's gonna be a rocket scientist! ^___^ I also love how the interview vaguely implies that Alter!Al might think Ed a little off his rocker ("I'm from another world, I have a brother that looks just like you." "Riiight. WTF.") I'm absolutely in love with the idea of a distant, pessimistic Ed just kind of wandering in this world where he doesn't belong. It'll strike me as rather sad if he fails to make a connection with even this boy who looks EXACTLY like his brother...
I've been wracking my brian ever since the end of the series trying to tie all these loose ends together and make some cohesive sense of it. The symbolism behind Hohenheim's name (there was a real alchemist by that name who wrote under the pen name Paracelsus studying, surprise surprise, humonculus), the reasons for setting the story in post WWI Germany, the whole Alchemy=Death=NO SUCH THING AS EQUVIALENT TRADE deal, the fact that the Gate is more or less IDENTICAL to Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture 'The Gate to Hell' (which was based on that very infamous piece of hell-related literature by, you guessed it, Dante!).
The icing on the cake would have been if Dante and Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim lived in roughly the same time period, however Paracelsus was a good two centuries too late to meet 'The Inferno's' author in the flesh. Which is a good thing, I suppose, since the implications of that would most likely cause me to froth at the mouth with an overdose on historical references.
ALL THESE OBLIQUE REAL WORLD REFERENCES BREAK MY BRAIN! DAMN YOU, FMA! DAMN YOU FOR MAKING ME CARE ABOUT THOSE DAMN ELRIC BROTHERS AND THEIR DAMN QUEST! >____<
... that is all.
(*psst* Just in case you didn't realize it, there are MASSIVE FMA spoilers behind that cut. Abstract, yes, but massive.)
PS: I just found out today that it is 100% impossible for my apartment to suffer a deadly invisible gas leak. This is good news as I can now sleep easier. ^_____^
Germany, 1923. ALTER!AL!!!!!! I DON'T THINK THAT THERE ARE ANY WORDS THAT CAN DESCRIBE HOW HAPPY THE IDEA OF ED HANGING OUT WITH ALTER!AL MAKES ME! PLUS the implications that there will be "Our World" versions of the other characters INCLUDING THE SINS! I don't think I can describe how happy this entire article makes me, since I am having a random bout of faith that this movie will be worth it.
And our world's Al is studying under Hermann Oberth? Al's gonna be a rocket scientist! ^___^ I also love how the interview vaguely implies that Alter!Al might think Ed a little off his rocker ("I'm from another world, I have a brother that looks just like you." "Riiight. WTF.") I'm absolutely in love with the idea of a distant, pessimistic Ed just kind of wandering in this world where he doesn't belong. It'll strike me as rather sad if he fails to make a connection with even this boy who looks EXACTLY like his brother...
I've been wracking my brian ever since the end of the series trying to tie all these loose ends together and make some cohesive sense of it. The symbolism behind Hohenheim's name (there was a real alchemist by that name who wrote under the pen name Paracelsus studying, surprise surprise, humonculus), the reasons for setting the story in post WWI Germany, the whole Alchemy=Death=NO SUCH THING AS EQUVIALENT TRADE deal, the fact that the Gate is more or less IDENTICAL to Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture 'The Gate to Hell' (which was based on that very infamous piece of hell-related literature by, you guessed it, Dante!).
The icing on the cake would have been if Dante and Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim lived in roughly the same time period, however Paracelsus was a good two centuries too late to meet 'The Inferno's' author in the flesh. Which is a good thing, I suppose, since the implications of that would most likely cause me to froth at the mouth with an overdose on historical references.
ALL THESE OBLIQUE REAL WORLD REFERENCES BREAK MY BRAIN! DAMN YOU, FMA! DAMN YOU FOR MAKING ME CARE ABOUT THOSE DAMN ELRIC BROTHERS AND THEIR DAMN QUEST! >____<
... that is all.
(*psst* Just in case you didn't realize it, there are MASSIVE FMA spoilers behind that cut. Abstract, yes, but massive.)
PS: I just found out today that it is 100% impossible for my apartment to suffer a deadly invisible gas leak. This is good news as I can now sleep easier. ^_____^