final few QESes
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mikkenekoFull Metal Alchemist opens on a land nostalgic to the world of the late 19th century; a world of stagecoaches and steam trains, of chivalrous military officers and scientific enlightenment. But along with the science of this world comes the power known as alchemy, the mysterious force which allows an alchemist to transform the world around him according to the natural laws of science. Those who study and master the alchemical art are highly valued in the society, both in the military and as public servants to the population.
Growing up in the idyllic rural town of Risembourg, Edward Elric and his little brother Alphonse have already demonstrated a prodigious talent for alchemy. However, when their mother dies, leaving the brothers orphaned in the world, this same talent leaves dangerous and unpredictable powers in the hands of two lonely, grieving children. Edward and his brother try to use alchemy to return their mother to them, but an unforeseen flaw in the process turns the attempt into a horrific nightmare that leaves Edward maimed and almost kills Alphonse.
For the sake of his brother, the eleven-year-old Edward must now push himself to become an adult, in order to master the power that nearly killed them to undo their terrible mistake. The two brothers leave their childhood home and begin a quest for the legendary Philosopher's Stone, the alchemical Grail that will give them the power they need.
Along the course of their journey, Edward and Alphonse will discover that they are not the only ones seeking the mythical Stone, and that the alchemical mystery hides a Truth more terrible than death.
I'm pretty much done with the QES by this point. *yawn* Although, I'm not happy with 38-40. I've only seen them once, and a lot was going on, and very little of it easily mockable.
Episode 35: The Reunion of Fools
Man: Our village is afflicted with a horrible disease and --
Audience: Don't care.
Woman: The man I love is in love with someone else and --
Audience: Don't care.
Man: My alchemy isn't good enough to save my people and --
Audience: DON'T CARE.
Envy: Just in case you'd forgotten what bastards we are, here it's revealed that we've spent the last god knows how many years going around torturing and slaughtering people wholesale in the faint hope that one of them will be desperate, clever, and crazy enough to create the Philosopher's Stone just to get us off their backs.
Ed: Hmm, doesn't that plan strike anyone else as a little chancy, oh, and DUMB-ASS?
Envy: ...so? It worked.
Man: Lust, I love you!
Audience: Still don't care.
Lust: Maybe I'm not so much of a bitch after all. Oh wait, I am.
Man: *dies horribly*
Woman: *dies horribly*
Everyone in village: *dies horribly*
Audience: ...You know, it's a good thing we didn't care, because GEEEEUCH.
Ed, Al, and Winry: Why the hell are we even in this episode?
Episode 36: The Sinner Within Me
Ishvarite: The Ishvar people used to have alchemy.
Ed: What? Really?
Ishvarite: You thought that we were too stupid to have it, huh? You thought that just because we were a different ethnicity from you, we were too inferior to work alchemy, right?
Ed: Actually, it was more the fact that I've never seen an Ishvarite use it, that everyone I've ever asked has told me it's forbidden by your religion, and that as a matter of fact the only Ishvarite I know thought it was such an abomination that he had to kill anyone who used it, that led me to think that. Sheesh. Sensitive much?
Scar: Talk to the hand, the rest of me has no idea what I'm doing.
Episode 37: Flame Alchemist, Fight Lieutenant, Monster 13th Hangar
Roy: The purpose of this episode is to prove to all the watchers out there that the fanon stereotypes of me being a lazy, arrogant bastard of a womanizer are all completely grounded in canon. We will never see the end of this.
Hawkeye: Fanservice? No idea what you're talking about.
Armstrong: Now, as usual, despite the complete filler-like hilarity of this episode, there's actual important plot stuff that you need to know™, so please pay attention to this letter I put in your pocket while I groped you, Havoc.
Ed's seiyuu: I'M TALL. OmgYES.
Al's seiyuu: I'M SMALL AND CUTE. OmgYES. And just to drive the point home, look how I can't even play minor characters without throwing in incest vibes.
Roy: Please allow me a moment of Rockbell angst, and then we can continue with me being brave and sexy and commanding.
Breda, Farman, Fury: (...So hot!)
Archer: Break it up, guys. Back to the plot.
Everybody: Dammit.
Episode 38: With the River's Flow
Martel: I gave up a lucrative career as a porn star to get revenge on the military, so I'm damn well going to make it worth it.
Al: Hey, if you keep hanging out in there, I'm going to have to charge you rent.
Winry: Here I am in a dark, secluded tunnel with a bank of machinery and a cute girl. I'm in heaven.
Episode 39: Eastern Civil War
Rose: Bet you didn't expect to see me again, did you?
Ed: I give up. Nobody ever stays gone in this series.
Scar: Guess what, it was a National Alchemist who killed my brother and blew my face open, the military is tormenting the city populace in an attempt to foster a rebellion so they'll have an excuse to ruthlessly crush them, and Rose's baby here is a product of rape by a soldier.
Ed: Are you trying to out-angst me?
Scar: Is it working?
Ed: *sighs* Just go ahead and put me in handcuffs, it'll make the audience happy.
Episode 40: The Scar
Kimberly: Just in case anyone had forgotten what a psychopath I am, let's have some flashback.
Martel: Fuhrer! I kill!
Fuhrer: As anyone in the audience who can count knows, there's still one more Sin running around out there. Hope you were keeping an eye out for him!
Martel: ...Shit! AL! The Fuhrer is a homunculus!
Al: Don't worry, you'll be safe in here.
Fuhrer: Nyet. *shlick*
Al: ...oh boy. That's going to leave a stain.
Growing up in the idyllic rural town of Risembourg, Edward Elric and his little brother Alphonse have already demonstrated a prodigious talent for alchemy. However, when their mother dies, leaving the brothers orphaned in the world, this same talent leaves dangerous and unpredictable powers in the hands of two lonely, grieving children. Edward and his brother try to use alchemy to return their mother to them, but an unforeseen flaw in the process turns the attempt into a horrific nightmare that leaves Edward maimed and almost kills Alphonse.
For the sake of his brother, the eleven-year-old Edward must now push himself to become an adult, in order to master the power that nearly killed them to undo their terrible mistake. The two brothers leave their childhood home and begin a quest for the legendary Philosopher's Stone, the alchemical Grail that will give them the power they need.
Along the course of their journey, Edward and Alphonse will discover that they are not the only ones seeking the mythical Stone, and that the alchemical mystery hides a Truth more terrible than death.
I'm pretty much done with the QES by this point. *yawn* Although, I'm not happy with 38-40. I've only seen them once, and a lot was going on, and very little of it easily mockable.
Episode 35: The Reunion of Fools
Man: Our village is afflicted with a horrible disease and --
Audience: Don't care.
Woman: The man I love is in love with someone else and --
Audience: Don't care.
Man: My alchemy isn't good enough to save my people and --
Audience: DON'T CARE.
Envy: Just in case you'd forgotten what bastards we are, here it's revealed that we've spent the last god knows how many years going around torturing and slaughtering people wholesale in the faint hope that one of them will be desperate, clever, and crazy enough to create the Philosopher's Stone just to get us off their backs.
Ed: Hmm, doesn't that plan strike anyone else as a little chancy, oh, and DUMB-ASS?
Envy: ...so? It worked.
Man: Lust, I love you!
Audience: Still don't care.
Lust: Maybe I'm not so much of a bitch after all. Oh wait, I am.
Man: *dies horribly*
Woman: *dies horribly*
Everyone in village: *dies horribly*
Audience: ...You know, it's a good thing we didn't care, because GEEEEUCH.
Ed, Al, and Winry: Why the hell are we even in this episode?
Episode 36: The Sinner Within Me
Ishvarite: The Ishvar people used to have alchemy.
Ed: What? Really?
Ishvarite: You thought that we were too stupid to have it, huh? You thought that just because we were a different ethnicity from you, we were too inferior to work alchemy, right?
Ed: Actually, it was more the fact that I've never seen an Ishvarite use it, that everyone I've ever asked has told me it's forbidden by your religion, and that as a matter of fact the only Ishvarite I know thought it was such an abomination that he had to kill anyone who used it, that led me to think that. Sheesh. Sensitive much?
Scar: Talk to the hand, the rest of me has no idea what I'm doing.
Episode 37: Flame Alchemist, Fight Lieutenant, Monster 13th Hangar
Roy: The purpose of this episode is to prove to all the watchers out there that the fanon stereotypes of me being a lazy, arrogant bastard of a womanizer are all completely grounded in canon. We will never see the end of this.
Hawkeye: Fanservice? No idea what you're talking about.
Armstrong: Now, as usual, despite the complete filler-like hilarity of this episode, there's actual important plot stuff that you need to know™, so please pay attention to this letter I put in your pocket while I groped you, Havoc.
Ed's seiyuu: I'M TALL. OmgYES.
Al's seiyuu: I'M SMALL AND CUTE. OmgYES. And just to drive the point home, look how I can't even play minor characters without throwing in incest vibes.
Roy: Please allow me a moment of Rockbell angst, and then we can continue with me being brave and sexy and commanding.
Breda, Farman, Fury: (...So hot!)
Archer: Break it up, guys. Back to the plot.
Everybody: Dammit.
Episode 38: With the River's Flow
Martel: I gave up a lucrative career as a porn star to get revenge on the military, so I'm damn well going to make it worth it.
Al: Hey, if you keep hanging out in there, I'm going to have to charge you rent.
Winry: Here I am in a dark, secluded tunnel with a bank of machinery and a cute girl. I'm in heaven.
Episode 39: Eastern Civil War
Rose: Bet you didn't expect to see me again, did you?
Ed: I give up. Nobody ever stays gone in this series.
Scar: Guess what, it was a National Alchemist who killed my brother and blew my face open, the military is tormenting the city populace in an attempt to foster a rebellion so they'll have an excuse to ruthlessly crush them, and Rose's baby here is a product of rape by a soldier.
Ed: Are you trying to out-angst me?
Scar: Is it working?
Ed: *sighs* Just go ahead and put me in handcuffs, it'll make the audience happy.
Episode 40: The Scar
Kimberly: Just in case anyone had forgotten what a psychopath I am, let's have some flashback.
Martel: Fuhrer! I kill!
Fuhrer: As anyone in the audience who can count knows, there's still one more Sin running around out there. Hope you were keeping an eye out for him!
Martel: ...Shit! AL! The Fuhrer is a homunculus!
Al: Don't worry, you'll be safe in here.
Fuhrer: Nyet. *shlick*
Al: ...oh boy. That's going to leave a stain.
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Date: 2004-09-25 01:59 am (UTC)*Dies and iz ded*
Okay, I just sprayed banananananana milkshake over my computer screen. Thanks.
(I know how to start spelling... that word... I just don't know how to stop!)
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Date: 2004-09-25 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-25 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-25 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-25 03:25 am (UTC)But judging from his stunt with the ink in...18? 19? he's got a better scanner than I'll ever be able to afford, the bastard.
Insane jealousy trip ends here!
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Date: 2004-09-25 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-25 04:18 pm (UTC)...
Al: Don't worry, you'll be safe in here.
Fuhrer: Nyet. *shlick*
Al: ...oh boy. That's going to leave a stain.
OMFG YOU ARE HILARIOUS.
I had to say it.
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Date: 2004-09-25 05:27 pm (UTC)Although to be scrupulous, the "stain" line was inspired by Oyster.