i dont get the comments about fma’s portrayal of war crimes and genocides and how it weirds them out when it’s an incredible anti-war animanga. how can you read/watch this series and think “hmm i think they’re taking it too lightly” when the entire plot line revolved around an racial extermination/genocide and how the soldiers who took part in mass murder are facing punishment by becoming sacrificial goats themselves.
do yall remember that olivier scene in the briggs summit where she said she enjoys the scenery because it’s almost in black and white? but bucaneer told her to look up at the blue sky and see that things are just not black and white? i think that yall are missing that part too.
one thing this series made obvious was that it is ANTI WAR. there’s no ifs and buts. the military in this verse is incredibly frowned upon despite being a military state, and the plot progression definitely showed why it should be. it revealed that every blood shed in amestrian history was instigated by the military. it couldn’t be MORE ANTI FASCIST THAN THAT.
but it gets complicated when it comes to characters like the soldiers who took part in the extermination and scar who killed in the name of revenge. this is where the gray areas come in. this is where characters like riza and dr marcoh who have a very complicated view on their life post-ishvalan war really gets you thinking. because these military dogs are as worse as their superiors but they hated what they did and they will carry their sins until they died. this is where characters like scar make shit even more complicated. because as a survivor of an extermination, I can’t help but root for him to see through his goals. but then he started targeting ed and al who had nothing to do with the ishvalan war. and then it gets revealed that he was the one to kill the rockbell doctors. and the three childhood friends had to live with the fact that the bad man who killed winry’s parents was a product of an never ending cycle of hate. and that he couldn’t be faulted for what he’s done but they still hated what he did. do yall get what i’m saying?
i have too many words for this incredible series but i think i might have to ponder my beans about it for now. one thing i can say is that: in no way does it take war lightly. it looks down on war crimes and paints fascism in no other way than a human’s greatest pit for their downfall. that’s the overall view. but if you micro-analyze the characters that put that overall view together, you see that things aren’t always black and white. it gets messy in a human’s mind, especially if you witness the horrors of a war. you kill, you feel guilt, but you have no choice but to go on and suffer in silence in consequence of the lives you’ve taken. we don’t even have to get to the debate on whether or not the amestrian soldiers are redeemable. the series more so focused on these character’s emotions and feelings about their crimes. as if the character themselves know that they’re far from redeemable. and they could only define their actions now that they’re picking up the pieces after bradley’s reign.
i dont get the comments about fma’s portrayal of war crimes and genocides and how it weirds them out when it’s an incredible anti-war animanga. how can you read/watch this series and think “hmm i think they’re taking it too lightly” when the entire plot line revolved around an racial extermination/genocide and how the soldiers who took part in mass murder are facing punishment by becoming sacrificial goats themselves.
do yall remember that olivier scene in the briggs summit where she said she enjoys the scenery because it’s almost in black and white? but bucaneer told her to look up at the blue sky and see that things are just not black and white? i think that yall are missing that part too.
one thing this series made obvious was that it is ANTI WAR. there’s no ifs and buts. the military in this verse is incredibly frowned upon despite being a military state, and the plot progression definitely showed why it should be. it revealed that every blood shed in amestrian history was instigated by the military. it couldn’t be MORE ANTI FASCIST THAN THAT.
but it gets complicated when it comes to characters like the soldiers who took part in the extermination and scar who killed in the name of revenge. this is where the gray areas come in. this is where characters like riza and dr marcoh who have a very complicated view on their life post-ishvalan war really gets you thinking. because these military dogs are as worse as their superiors but they hated what they did and they will carry their sins until they died. this is where characters like scar make shit even more complicated. because as a survivor of an extermination, I can’t help but root for him to see through his goals. but then he started targeting ed and al who had nothing to do with the ishvalan war. and then it gets revealed that he was the one to kill the rockbell doctors. and the three childhood friends had to live with the fact that the bad man who killed winry’s parents was a product of an never ending cycle of hate. and that he couldn’t be faulted for what he’s done but they still hated what he did. do yall get what i’m saying?
i have too many words for this incredible series but i think i might have to ponder my beans about it for now. one thing i can say is that: in no way does it take war lightly. it looks down on war crimes and paints fascism in no other way than a human’s greatest pit for their downfall. that’s the overall view. but if you micro-analyze the characters that put that overall view together, you see that things aren’t always black and white. it gets messy in a human’s mind, especially if you witness the horrors of a war. you kill, you feel guilt, but you have no choice but to go on and suffer in silence in consequence of the lives you’ve taken. we don’t even have to get to the debate on whether or not the amestrian soldiers are redeemable. the series more so focused on these character’s emotions and feelings about their crimes. as if the character themselves know that they’re far from redeemable. and they could only define their actions now that they’re picking up the pieces after bradley’s reign.