User:Nikolai the Second

Problems with FMA Brotherhood
Ep 1-10: introductory arc
 * 1) Pride apparently can only use shadows and he can't take his true form at night. However, nighttime is just one big shadow. The sun casts a shadow on the earth when one half of the earth is not facing the sun. So Pride's inability to take his true form at nighttime is a plothole.
 * 2) Pride apparently can't travel wherever he wants and is stuck in the tunnel and Central. Why does he have this constraint? It was never explained.
 * 3) Mustang apparently can't use his flame alchemy during the rain. Is this is only alchemy? You are telling me Mustang never studied even basic alchemy? He should know how to do at least a few things.
 * 4) Also Mustang should have an umbrella and cigarette lighter at all times. The writers obviously wanted him to be a really smart character but apparently he hasn't figured out that if he has an umbrella then he can use flame alchemy in the rain.
 * 5) The Briggs border gaurd attacks the Elrich brothers in a pointless, frustrating fight scene that could have been avoided if Edward or Alphonse said two words. "State Alchemists!" The entire fight scene was pointless and infuriating because it didn't need to happen in universe.
 * 6) In response to Edward Elrich saying "Its a secret." Olivia Armstrong replies "We all have secrets." and proceeds to interrogate Edward. This is a stupid excuse. If everybody has secrets then why should Edward give up his? Surely the fact that everybody has secrets only strengthens Edward's hand. Later Miles uncovers his secret free of charge but it isn't a secret if Miles tells everybody he comes across.
 * 7) Edward uncovers his secrets to Olivia in the underground. But Pride would have seen them and noticed that Olivia Armstrong was being used against the conspiracy. So it makes no sense why Olivia takes Raven's seat at the council and why the villains trust her all the way up until she betrays them.
 * 8) Everybody around Olivia Armstrong is nerfed just so that she can seem powerful. Characters act differently around her. She warps the entire universe around her character. I hated Olivia Armstrong. She is a Mary Sue. Her only flaw is being so strong that no man could approach her. That is not a convincing flaw.
 * 9) Scar + Co. decide to leave for a Ishvalan refugee camp when Alphonse tells them that Briggs is compromised. But they should have gone back into the abandoned mining town. We were told that it would take Kimbly weeks to search the mining town which is longer than it would take to search the Ishvalan Refugee camp. Additionally, the mining town was so big that Scar + Co.  could slip back into previously cleared areas. Not so with the refugee camp. This stupid decision was just made so that Edward could face Kimbly 1 on 1 and save himself with medical alchemy.
 * 10) Why is Mei Chang following Scar? Mei Chang wants immortality but Scar wants to kill State Alchemists. There is no reason in universe for it. Same thing with Yoki. I hate both of these characters and every second they have on screen makes me wish Scar would just kill them in their sleep.
 * 11) Alphonse never learns Alchehistory from Mei Chang which was the whole point of going up north. To learn Alchehistory so that they can use it against Father.
 * 12) The four Chimeras that turn good at the end were a waste of time and only added to a bloated cast with little development. They should have just been shot by Miles. I had zero to little investment in these 4 chimeras, Mei Chang, and Yoki.

Ep 11-15: Southern Arc

Ep 16-32: Central Arc

Ep 33-42: Northern Arc

Ep 43-64: Final Arc