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I'M. SO. OLD.

FMA Brotherhood 21 - 34 Oh wow the incompatibility between the two series runs deeper than I thought. It would take an absolute madman to try to edit this together into one chimera cut. Oh wait a minute...

Every time I did, it'd usually end in an account ban.

FMA Brotherhood 12 - 20 Oh Winry's down baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

Sir, holding the organs of the dead is considered unpatriotic in 38 states.

Nah. Bitch named her gym after a Star Wars planet and got quirked

Some asshole at work literally said I'm too old to be keeping up with new music and should listen to talk radio and podcasts instead. Fuckwad, just because you're a miserable adult doesn't mean I have to be.

My Bloody Valentine > Nirvana

FMA 49 - END / Conqueror of Shamballa Uh... wat the fukk?? I appreciate the big swings in '03's attempt at wrapping things up -- But unfortunately, my memory of this show was somewhat correct as its ending dives straight off a cliff. "Oh, but the friends you made along the wa-" Shut the fuck up Hohenheim.

FMA 40 - 48 That lull is actually way shorter than I remember being because good lord this is fantastic

I suffered so now you must too

I can't. I physically cannot. I have a weekly radio show and stumble upon a thousand artists per year. This is an impossible task.

FMA 29 - 39 The anime original stuff with Wrath and Greed up to episode 34 is GREAT. There's a very Southern Gothic vibe with the Dante mansion that I heavily mess with. Unfortunately, 35 - 39 feels like a lull. It's dragging now -- And while there's moments with Winry and Mustang that feel of narrative significance, something feels off. When the Homunculi are spending their time plotting in dive bars, the threat feels much smaller than it should. Not only that, but the Ishval stuff is becoming a bore.

https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/reviews/23852766/one-piece-live-action-review-netflix-season-1 Interesting take that sums up why I'm hesitant on jumping into this.

Dead as a doornail.

That's... insane. I'm still skeptical, but very unexpected nonetheless.

Will see this in theaters, but we need to bring back the intermission holy shit

FMA 26-28 I gave up. A couple things happened in Brotherhood 11 that already occurred in the original series. Mission failed. Chimera Order impossible without editing.

I'll admit, watching anime on a week-to-week basis has become a turn off. Most of this shit has a million characters and plot points I'm not gonna remember in more than 3 days if I don't continuously marathon. Maybe that's the nature of the beast? Maybe I'm getting old? Idk.

FMA 13-25 / Brotherhood 9-10 Well I ruined the illusion of a seamless transition LOL it looks like both So no, as much as I hate to say it, you can't jump from "The Event" into Brotherhood as too much '03 original stuff is in play already. However, aside from The Secretary / Juliette Douglas just hanging out in the background with no follow up, you can seamlessly jump into Brotherhood right after Lab 5 (so basically go from FMA 22 to Brotherhood 9). That said, I forgot how cartoony and lame Brotherhood can be. "The Event" holds no weight and gravitas, and neither does Basque's talk with Ed & the subsequent tension between the brothers. I remember the humor calming itself down at a certain point, but this is really rough. EDIT: Went back and watched FMA 25 with the commentary track to wash the taste out of my mouth. To hell with the inconsistencies, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

But, like... 4:3 shouldn't be a "nuisance" anymore. TV's are too big now to complain about black bars. At the same time, TNT & TBS still crop cinemascope movies to 16:9, so how am I not surprised?