Re: FMA 37 - The Flame Alchemist, the bachelor lieutenant and the mystery of warehouse 13


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>>>>>>> Dave Baranyi wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Okay, here is a key point among the goofiness - why does Bradley
>>>>>>>> suddenly ask Archer to go to the East. (And what has happened to
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> previous officers who have received similar instructions from King
>>>>>>>> Bradley? <g>)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The quest for the Philosopher's Stone, of course. Archer's
>>>>>>> indicated
>>>>>>> pretty clearly that he has no qualms about making one.
>>>>>>> Incidentally, this probably makes Sciezka relatively safe. If she's
>>>>>>> part of an investigation into Bradley, she's a threat. If she's
>>>>>>> involved in an investigation into the Philosopher's Stone, then
>>>>>>> she's
>>>>>>> probably safe as long as she's useful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nothing is ever that straightforward in this series...<g>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm teasing Laurie again because I want her to considered the motives
>>>>>> behind the motives of the characters.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave Baranyi
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>>>>> So, Dave, why am I remembering that Stalin ruined the Soviet army
>>>>> before WWII by killing his generals because he thought they were
>>>>> threats? Is there a gulag in Liore?
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>>>> You've actually been told on screen a couple of times what is
>>>> happening, and what will happen. What you don't know is who is doing it
>>>> and why. <g> And even some of the participants don't know that they are
>>>> being manipulated, let alone by whom...<g> But everyone thinks that
>>>> they have their own best interests at heart.
>>>>
>>>> BTW - what have "gulags" been used for in the past in FMA?...<g>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers -
>>>>
>>>> Dave Baranyi
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>>>>> laurie
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>>> I'm gritting my teeth here because I see where you're going but I don't
>>> want to put it into words. I'm guessing that we're back at what the
>>> exile told Ed and Al about the Ishbalan method?
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>>> laurie
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>> Ed's been told things. Scar's been told things. Hughes was told things...
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>> I'll suggest that what might be more interesting for you to do would be
>> to speculate upon is what is inside of Ed and Al's heads at this moment.
>> Do you suppose that they have the same suspicions that you do? And what
>> does that mean for them? <very nasty grin>
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> I don't think they have the same suspicions I do, because they don't have
> you for a Mephistopheles.
>

Why thank you! That's a marvelous compliment! <g> Therefore I shall give you
a quote, the appropriateness of which you will soon see as the story
progresses:

Faustus: Where are you damned?
Mephistopheles: In hell.
Faustus: How comes it then that thou are out of hell?
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.

- Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Scene 3

> This is a case where the viewers know more than the main character because
> we've watched several characters be told things whereas the main character
> Ed only knows what he himself has been told. I think Ed and Al think that
> they're making their moves of their own free will whereas I'm becoming
> paranoid for them. Also, there's so much Ed and Al don't know about --
> Hughes and what Hughes found out in particular.
>
> I was just thinking that I wished this way a book instead of television
> series so I could flip through the pages and find the clues. I may have to
> print out my recaps so I can refer back to them.
>

That's why I recommended that you rewatch the earlier episodes while coming
up to the final quarter of the series.

Cheers -

Dave Baranyi

> laurie
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