Full Metal Alchemist - the flaws?

*Warning spoilers*

I've been rewatching it recently. Minus its tracking off from the manga story, if you look at the series at itself it is quite brilliant. The tragedy is plays is quite brilliant. And when the comedy comes its just hillarious (the episode with Al versus Roy). Just that when you watch don't expect a lovey dovery ending or feel. The series central theme is tragedy. You will cry sometimes watching it (Nina).

The parrelel universe was a real bad part of the series. Ridiculuous concept. But other than that as an anime series, its quite perfect. Are there any other flaws in this series?

Correct me if im wrong, because i havent watched in a while but i kind of didnt get the timeline that the homunculi lived on. When they are born do they look just like the person the alchemist was trying to ressurect when they died?

And also, people say they do not have emotions but it pretty much looked like they had emotion to me. Especially Lust and Wrath and sometime near the end, you see Gluttony's connection with Lust. Why the hell would be calling for Lust and acting like a complete retard if he hadn't grown attached to her? How is that not having emotion?

Uhh, the series was incredibly dragged on? 

>>2
Well techinically when they are born, they just look like misplaced lump of meat. Then as they eat the philosophers stone, they form slowly take shape of the person the alchemist was trying to ressurect.

>>3
Was it really dragged on? I never got that feeling when watching it. Nearly every episode opened up a new chapter in the mystery to me.

>>1

don't you mean Ed vs. Roy?

>>3

I didn't feel that the series dragged on too much. There were a few episodes that felt a lot like filler roundabout episodes 3-6, but the rest of the series ended quite neatly. Compare it to popular shonen series like One Piece (240+ episodes) and Naruto (140+), and it seems quite compact.

>>5

Oops my bad. yeh Ed vs Roy. Not just the fight but that whole ep in general

LOL
especially the part where Maes unveils the giant picture of his daughter, man, that was hillarius!

I <3 Pomatoes. That was my favorite episode for funny stuff. I liked the Greed fight.

Flaws?

I thought that the first bit of the show was promising-- there was a real edginess involved with the poor little girl and such.  Unfortunately, I think that the end of the series didn't deliver on the promise, instead shifting to a much more formulaic storyline.  I stopped watching around episode 30 when I lost the last little bit of remaining interest.

ive only seen 2 eps of it, and already something was wrong. I saw one near the beginning where ed and al were fighting, training, i belive, and the little guy throws the armor dude in the water. Victory for ed.

Now in another ep, hell if i know which, Ed gets really pissed at Al for messing around with water (rain?) due to the fact that his blood circle thingy would erase, therefore killing him. I try to have an open mind, but was that a mistake?

>>11
There are so many cases like that. Such as when Al went into the water to fish (on the island).
Flaws?...Not enough Winry screen time...

>>12

When he fished in the water I'm sure he made sure to not go so deep that the blood seal would go under. Remember, it's RIGHT below his head on the inside of his back, so he could go in fairly deep and be just fine.

Maes was a fucking idiot and deserved to die. You just don't walk right up to a person and be all: "HEY I KNOW EVERYTHING, KILL ME NOW PLEASE"

Whenever one or both Elrics goes all emo, usually it's Al. God that's annoying...

>>15

How are they emo?

Series flaws?

The steampunk world where magic works is a nicely original setting, the animation is great.

But the writing, the plotting, the characterization, it all just feels like generic shonen to me.

The anime differ from the manga too much, and the characters' intents because of that are lame

>>15
yeah, the part in lab5 where he goes all "i dont exist" was stupid. Why would he believe the admitted murderer who is trying to kill him? Stupid.

>>19

Yeah that really annoyed me as well.  Same with the Sloth fight, believing two homunculi over his brother. Oh well it was still a great story, and better than most other shows I've seen. 

I still need to see the movie; anyone know if it is any good?

>>2

The homunucli thing is mind-boggling and confusing. The manga doesn't make it any better either. My personal theory is that the alchemists actually DID make the person they intended to make...but that because making a functional human is REALLY HARD they always came out super f'ed up. And then of course there's the fact that the souls would be YANKED from the grave to inhabit the new body...that has to be traumatizing, so no wonder the homunucli have trouble remembering their lives (but they DO remember sometimes) and act so weird.

Because it always struck me as weird how everyone was all "OMG THEY HAVE NO SOULS"...I'm all '...uh, how can they TELL?' What, do they have some sort of special measuring system where they figure out How Much Soul is in someone? So considering the time period that FMA is set in, I always assumed it was Ed, Izumi and  everyone else having a Victorian mindset.

Can I mention who is my favorite? Armstrong always made me laugh with his constant body-builder posing and BOOMING LOUD STATEMENTS while glinting. He's great.

Wrath is a giant plot hole. How did he get out of the gate?

Flaws? Not enough Hawkeye screen time! Hawkeye LOVE!

Other than that, like >>10, I lost interest halfway through. Then I tried reading the manga, and I quickly became a big fan of it.

>>21,  well, the manga hasn't really tried to explain exactly how the homunculi came to be. Or, well, maybe it has, but I haven't read it yet :) (I follow the tanko releases)

it's shit