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?

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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.