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


"Dave Baranyi" <a_nospam.b_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "elsie" <lcubbison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> laurie
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>>> Ed's been told things. Scar's been told things. Hughes was told
>>> things...
>>>
>>> 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>
>>>
>> I don't think they have the same suspicions I do, because they don't have
>> you for a Mephistopheles.
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> 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
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It's interesting that you quote those lines because they'd been on my mind
too. They're absolutely great lines, and I'd love to see what kind of line
readings an actor would give them.

>> 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.
>>
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> That's why I recommended that you rewatch the earlier episodes while
> coming up to the final quarter of the series.
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I've been doing that. I may have another recap to post soon.

> Cheers -
>
> Dave Baranyi
>
>> laurie
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