people have no idea how literal i was being here

i have no idea if you can do that with anacondas

me coming into work

the brothers i still really like, ed is so emo and al is the goodest boy

idk who needs to hear this but don't try to explain to me what happens at the end, i'm commenting as i watch and don't pass final judgements here, i also don't remember much

i'm conflicted on winry for example because i think it's sweet that her motivation for getting better at her craft is wanting to provide better support to ed in specific and it's clear that she is also passionate in general, but the narrative seems to still force her into the role of 'ideal wife'

anyway, women,

it's interesting to me that while it's a story written by a woman and there are a lot of female characters that are strong and skilled they usually also are sidekicks to men

like...buddy. your friends and coworkers were all there, it's not been 30 years it's more like 5

i think (and hope) that part of ed and al's character development is going from 'whatever i wasn't personally killing people in ishbala, so i don't feel responsible, and we have a lot of stuff on our plate as is' to ...not that

it sure is a choice to code the genocided nation as sort of middle eastern

ok ok i don't remember a ton, and back when i watched it first i didn't pay so much attention to the ishbala plot, but ??? i'm anxiously looking forward to seeing how they address a lot of characters' personal involvement with literal genocide

first thought, nothing revolutionary whatsoever, but the first episode that they tacked on is really unnecessary and actually bad, they establish rules and characters that get reestablished not much later and it kills the momentum

...go

Lin and I talked about watching it one day since we met basically bc I genuinely used to love it, and she only saw the weird first show, so on new years day it was time to