Oh yes! I'd forgotten but when we first heard Astrid's last name, the bro decided the Futurama thing wasn't a coincidence! Heh...
Compared to Fringe Stargate's science is amazingly accurate! They at least have Ancient technology to justify it...
But I'm liking the chars enough to want to stick with it. And I've heard it gets better later seasons, so...
FMA now doesn't need to get any better, it is amazing and fantastic as is. Olivier is SPECTACULAR. And yeah, all the female characters...I think it does help that Arakawa is a women; there's a certain...not just depth, but realism? The women feel like real people as much as the men, have hearts and minds just as much. And it's not that guys *can't* write like that (or that female writers can't screw it up!) but - yeah, things like her female characters working for a living because that's what life is for her, yes, I can see that. At least in shounen series, there are few in which the female chars compare (actually Gintama is the other one which comes to mind; I still don't know why that is, but...part of it might be lack of fan-service? FMA is just very low-fanservice - the guys and girls both are all awesome and gorgeous (the bro is mad in love with Riza ;) but they're not on display like that...)(also in the visual sense, love that FMA chars are all *solid* - neither anime-slender or superhero-muscular, but built like real people...)
...which (obligatory shallowness) doesn't preclude them from being HOT AS HELL OMG ROY~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (putting aside the obvious puns, there are moments where he is one of the sexiest men I have ever seen in an anime...something about his eyes, or hair, or face, or just...yowsa.....)
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Compared to Fringe Stargate's science is amazingly accurate! They at least have Ancient technology to justify it...
But I'm liking the chars enough to want to stick with it. And I've heard it gets better later seasons, so...
FMA now doesn't need to get any better, it is amazing and fantastic as is. Olivier is SPECTACULAR. And yeah, all the female characters...I think it does help that Arakawa is a women; there's a certain...not just depth, but realism? The women feel like real people as much as the men, have hearts and minds just as much. And it's not that guys *can't* write like that (or that female writers can't screw it up!) but - yeah, things like her female characters working for a living because that's what life is for her, yes, I can see that. At least in shounen series, there are few in which the female chars compare (actually Gintama is the other one which comes to mind; I still don't know why that is, but...part of it might be lack of fan-service? FMA is just very low-fanservice - the guys and girls both are all awesome and gorgeous (the bro is mad in love with Riza ;) but they're not on display like that...)(also in the visual sense, love that FMA chars are all *solid* - neither anime-slender or superhero-muscular, but built like real people...)
...which (obligatory shallowness) doesn't preclude them from being HOT AS HELL OMG ROY~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (putting aside the obvious puns, there are moments where he is one of the sexiest men I have ever seen in an anime...something about his eyes, or hair, or face, or just...yowsa.....)