Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S1E26: “Reunion”

Here we are. The season one finale, and what a finale it has the potential to be! So many unions to be restored: Mustang and his team, Edward and Alphonse, Yao and Ninjette, and of course the brothers and Father. If they've actually met him before, of course; otherwise that last one isn't exactly a reunion. But anyway, midpoint of the series, and a major change of the status quo pretty much unavoidable.

The episode opens on the raging battle beyond the Gates of Gluttony. Damn, the visuals here are such a change from the usual for this series! Two young heroes, swords in hand, fighting desperately against a giant demon in a lake of blood and ancient ruins with a ceiling of darkness. It's an epic fantasy image to the core! Anyway, the battle isn't going too well for the humans. Edward and Yao aren't able to inflict any real structural damage on this bulky and multi-limbed monster, even before you factor in the regeneration, and there isn't too much for Edward to transmute with. They're both starting to tire, and every time Envy sends one of them flying it takes longer to pick themselves up again.

While Edward is covering for one of Yao's recovery periods, he manages to pounce on an exposed part of Envy's underbelly. His attack falters, however, when he suddenly makes a new acquaintance.

Another face ruptures out of that one, and just cackles maniacally. Then tens of others all start addressing Edward, begging for rescue, for death, for mercy, or just gibbering stuff that doesn't make sense. Edward freezes, stunned in horror. Yao finishes returning to the fray just in time to take back Envy's attention (and impale the head that was cackling in Edward's face, for all the good that does), but Edward's concentration is still broken.

As they narrowly evade another counterattack by Envy, Edward tells Yao that he thinks there's actually someone in there who's calling for help. Yao is more skeptical, insisting that this is just more of Envy's trickery. Either of them could be right. We don't know enough about the philosopher's stone to say that the souls of the people its made from aren't trapped in an eternal hell and screaming for death. But, if I were Envy that's also the exact sort of trick I might try in this situation, knowing (as she likely does by this point) that Edward is averse to killing humans and that his understanding of the philosopher's stone is limited. While Edward and Yao are arguing and hiding behind some chunks of rubble, Edward suddenly hears Nina Tucker's voice calling out from among the others, and he freezes up again.

We don't see a particular face that speaks with her voice, so this might just be Edward having a flashback brought on by seeing other tormented victims of alchemy. I don't think Envy could be impersonating Nina (I doubt she ever met her, or learned that Edward was traumatized by what happened to her), and there's no way that Nina could have been absorbed by Envy after Scar's mercykilling, so...yeah, I think this is just Edward being triggered. Triggered in the actual mental illness sense, not in the internet slang for "mildly irritated" sense.

Yao tries to snap him out of it again, but is unable to do so before Envy picks the paralyzed Edward up and slams him against what looks like a piece of Xerxian altar. It might even be a philosopher's stone lab/Wogdat altar, based on the familiar iconography carved into it. Once Edward is too injured to move, Envy then grabs him with an amorpheous tongue-type thing made of more doomed souls and tries to swallow him.

Yo dawg we heard you liked vore so we put a Sin in yo Sin so you can be eaten while yo being eaten!

If Envy is actually trying to absorb Edward somehow, then that might mean that the screaming faces are those of people's shes eaten throughout her life, rather than the victims used to make her battery. In which case, the chances of them actually being conscious people being trapped in living death rather than just echoes or imprints of such are significantly higher.

She finishes swallowing Edward whole, and then the title card drops. Well, if Edward IS actually being absorbed rather than just imprisoned within her mass or being more conventionally digested, then the process must be reversable, because the series is only half finished.

I wonder. Is he going to be reunited with someone else himself, inside of Envy? Who could she have absorbed that Edward knows? Maybe she's just reuniting him with Wogdat by giving him a near-death experience? Could just be a red herring too.

Cut to May searching the neighborhood for her pandarat. Eventually, she meets someone who saw Pandarat in the company of a "big armored guy," and she assumes that Alphonse must have intentionally stolen her during their escape.

Then, as they're trying to figure out where Alphonse might have taken Pandarat, May just happens to look down an alleyway and sees this:

The chances of this are...not very high, to say the least. I'm just going to assume that in the manga they got to this particular alley by following a trail of recent Alphonse sightings and move on.

Scar recognizes Gluttony, of course, and warns May about what to expect. Scar might not know much about haemonculi, but personal experience has at least taught him that they're nearly unkillable, which allows them to be viciously aggressive in combat. "Unkillable" is close enough to "immortal" to get May's attention; like Yao, she wonders if she can harvest a few barrels of immortality from a haemonculus if she can just get her hands on one. So, that's both of the things that she wants right in front of her, walking down the same creepy underground staircase.

Speaking of creepy underground things, when they sneak up to the stairway after Gluttony and Alphonse have descended May's ki sense begins tingling. Multiple biosigns right under their feet, and they don't read as human or animal.

This ki-sensing thing has been universal among the Xingites we've met so far. I guess it's a basic enough alkahestry trick that pretty much everyone who learns how to fight in Xing picks it up. Of course, May actually IS a proper alkahestrist, unlike the other three. Just thinking in general.

Anyway, while they're hesitating at the entrance, Gluttony leads Alphonse through an underground corridor. Pandarat is spooked, and Alphonse gets spooked too when he sees the broken and mangled human bones scattered here and there along the way. When asked what happened here, Gluttony indicates the ceiling, and tells him that the "gatekeepers" won't bother him as long as he's with Gluttony.

That's probably the anomalous biosigns that May was getting. I'm guessing they're chimeras of some stripe, or maybe zombies. That's probably what Pandarat has been scared about too.

Father really is rocking that classic flavor supervillain routine, isn't he? Between the swiveling chair, the rising incinerator, and now the caged monsters guarding the outer corridors of his underground base, he's straight out of a 1940's comic book. This latest detail does make sense for him, though. If the thing he's best at is creating alchemical life forms, then he'd use that wherever feasible.

They continue on their way. Alphonse asks Gluttony if his father will know where the people he gluttonized went. Gluttony just smiles, and reassures him that Father knows everything. Why is Gluttony so cute, seriously?

Back to Edward now, floating in a gelatinous mass of half-formed, hollowly moaning proto-faces. Too bad the surrounding mass is pinning his arms; if he were to cast that disintegrate spell here, it would be kind of hilarious and also very embarrassing for Envy. A red light shines between the strands of semiliquid flesh, and Edward sees the philosopher's stone at their roots.

He remembers what Mustang told him about Lust, and realizes what he must be looking at. The irony torments him. All these years looking for a philosopher's stone, and now there's one just a few feet in front of him as he's about to die. It's Tarterian.

It's not clear at all what Envy is trying to do to him, while this is going on. There's nothing that seems like a digestive process beginning. She doesn't seem to be assimilating him either. He's just kinda suspended in there. Is she just planning to let him suffocate or something?

Then, suddenly, he realizes something. He looks at the philosopher's stone, thinks of the broken bits of Xerxian altar strewn around Gluttony's pocket dimension, and remembers the half-disintegrated temple he saw back in the ruins. Then, suddenly energized again, he...

Okay, I just about died laughing. Never change, Edward. You can get taller if you really want to that much, but otherwise never change.

Also, it looks like he was still in Envy's mouth or throat that whole time, if he's able to get his leg out again so quickly. Looking at Envy's size and shape, that would mean that her battery is somewhere near the back of her true form's head or throat. I wonder if it moves down into the chest area like Lust's when she compresses herself into human shape? If not, that probably means that each haemonculus has it somewhere else in their bodies. I'd suspect a relationship with the location of their ouroboros marks, but we've seen that Gluttony's isn't in his tongue, so probably not.

Edward's muffled shouts suggest that he may have figured out a way to get them out of here, but he'll only be able to do it if Envy doesn't kill him. The battle stops, and she starts spitting him out.

Meanwhile, May and Scar have entered the corridor behind Gluttony and Alphonse, and are under attack by the gatekeepers. They're chimeras, but they don't seem to be purpose-built chimeras like I was expecting. Unlike those green dog things that Father uses to guard his prisoners, these ones are all different, each one a mishmash of random animal, human, and synthetic parts. I get the impression that Father just uses the gatekeeper pack as his dumping ground for old experiments. And, as you'd expect given the above, they're not too effective against skilled combatants.

Granted, they're probably only meant to deal with vagrants, street kids, and the occasional mook cop. If Father was expecting serious opposition, he'd post golems or haemonculi.

Once they've dealt with the swarm, May asks Scar what those things were, and he tells her. Huh. Did she really not know about chimeras until now? With Xing's emphasis of medical alkahestry, I'd have thought chimera creation would be a common practice for them. Weird. She then tells Scar that she detects something else deeper underground below them. Not more chimeras; something different. Something that she recognizes as "people," but in such a distorted way that the sensation horrifies her. Father's main stash of protostone, perhaps? Hmm...if so, she should have felt a similar ki-signature coming from Gluttony, but she isn't making that connection, so I guess this is something else. Maybe Father himself has an extra weird signature due to how dang much of the stuff he's consumed?

In his office, Father feels "a disturbance." In the Force? Maybe. He senses that someone is coming his way, but who is he detecting, and how?

Also, I just realized that this is the first time we've seen Father in person since his debut in "Those Who Lurk Underground," unless that actually was him impersonating Hohenheim back in Resembool.

And now for something completely different! A bunch of babies being collected somewhere, a voiceover...hold up, that's Wrath's voice! "I don't know if I was orphaned or sold. I don't even remember my original name."

What...we're getting Wrath's autobiography? Now? And...he used to be human? What?

Okay. Well. A bunch of baby boys were acquired by what appears to be either an ultranationalist Amestrian cell, or a literal cult led by Father. Or both? I don't think this is being done by the state itself, since again, if Father had that much control of the Amestrian government to begin with there'd have been no need for Wrath to lead it. The boys are being raised as "prospective fuhrers." All are being trained to be ideal officers and statesmen, with the most qualified among them by young adulthood being destined for insinuation into the government.

As they get older, we see them being put through brutal sparring sessions, with the boy who would later become Wrath and get the dictator 'stache that comes with it accidentally killing one of his fellow candidates and being told not to regret or worry about it. Finally, in their late teens or so, we see the candidates being brought one by one to a medical lab, being restrained on a cot, and having philosopher's stone injected directly into their bloodstreams. Each one dies in agony, red lightning consuming their bodies and causing them to waste away to a semi-mummified corpse. After each, the doctors proclaim this attempt a failure, extract the philosopher's stone from the corpse, and try the next one.

Finally, proto-Wrath is strapped in. They tell him not to worry, but he catches a glimpse of his brothers'/classmates'/peers' bodies being stuffed into an adjoining room, and begins to panic. Then Father leans over him, and tells him that he's the twelfth one so far; will he be the one who's able to accept his wrath?

Father's expression and tone of voice here are so undignified and goofy, it makes it seem like a fever dream. It's almost the diametric opposite of how his personality came across during Greed's execution. That touch of silliness in the midst of the atrocity he's performing makes him less intimidating, but also more disturbing. He feels unpredictable and dangerous, and that touch of mundanity makes him seem realer as well.

He keeps reminding me more and more of Joseph Curwen, from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." Curwen had some similar banally undignified moments that made him seem more human and therefore more uncomfortable to read about.

There's also another dimension to this brief little appearance. When Father first looms over proto-Wrath, his face is shrouded by that heavenly glow he likes to surround himself in and his voice is deep and commanding. Then when he leans over him, we see the dopey smile and his voice gets higher and zanier. Like he's affecting godhood, but under all the special effects he's still ultimately just a person, and as such can be defeated.

Anyway, he's referring to the philosopher's stone being used here as "my wrath." So he is actually imbuing the haemonculi with those sinful aspects of himself. Which take the form of philosopher's stone, somehow. Is he a haemonculus himself? If so, is he somehow shedding the distilled Xerxian souls who were the most wrathful for this purpose? Or is he somehow extracting a little of that quality from all of them and concentrating it in a certain physical part of his core? If he's NOT a haemonculus, then...I guess he's using preexisting philosopher's stone as a conduit, making the souls within absorb his wrath and then carry it into their new host?

You know, between that and the duality of his appearance here (the godly upright presentation, and the mortal hunched one), I wonder if he has another motive in creating the Sins besides just needing some powerful minions. Is he trying to purge himself of what he perceives as weaknesses and imperfections? Imbuing his lowly sinful traits into the haemonculi, and thus leaving himself pure and capable of ascending to some higher state of being?

Well. If so, given how much hubris this guy displayed even after Pride's coming into existence, I don't think it's actually working.

He's injected with the liquid stone, and his voiceover resumes, explaining how the many souls within the liquid try to reconcile themselves with the foreign human body they've been installed in, while the body and its native occupant try to repel them. The subject is disintegrated and healed simultaneously through this process, until they either die in agony or manage to stabilize as a human-bodied haemonculus; the first of its kind in history. When that finally happens, Wrath opens his eyes again, and one of them has now manifested the ouroboros mark. He is given his new name, Wrath, and his new alias, Earl Medici du'Pompadour Le'Riechstag, PhD.

Return to the present, where we see that he's in his office and telling all this to Mustang. Okay, yeah, he's trying to do something here, and I don't think it's something Father would approve of. Even for an "I might as well tell you my plan since I'm about to kill you anyway" villain speech, showing this kind of vulnerability wouldn't fit.

Anyway, he finishes his story by saying that he isn't sure if he, the consciousness known as Wrath, is actually the body's original soul. His memories are scattered and indistinct, and it's quite possible that they're mixed together from all twelve of the victims who the stone went through before stabilizing in this body. It could even be that "he" is a soul recycled from one of the original philosopher's stone constituents with those mixed Amestrian memories overwriting its old self. Mustang asks him (while still being careful to call him "your excellency." He's treading as lightly as you'd expect) if he has any desire to live as a human again, but Wrath says that he is completely okay with who and what he is and doesn't resent what was done to himsel(ves?). Not quite sure if I believe that, given the way he told the story. Also, he says that he takes pride in his state as a haemonculus, just as the woman who Mustang killed had pride in it, and just like even limited humans have pride in their flawed condition.

He keeps saying the word "pride" over and over again. He's definitely trying to tell Mustang something, with that.

Return to the realm of Gluttony. Yao puts together a splint for Edward's organic arm that Envy broke when she bashed him against the rubble. Meanwhile, Envy comes back to their little stone island carrying some more Xerxian altar fragments. She's been assembling all of the pieces of what appears to be a giant transmutation platform scattered around the space, and Edward is decrypting the symbols and piecing things together. These are indeed pieces of the half-destroyed altar he saw in the ruins of Xerxes, but he was wrong about what the complete version looked like. It's similar to what he saw in lab 5, but not the same. It also has some repeated iconography from the Gates of Truth, but only some.

The sun, moon, and stone symbols across the top of the circle represent the human soul, mind, and body, respectively. The circle is clearly meant for human transmutation of some kind, but it doesn't seem to be for converting a human into something other than a human; more of a transformation or reconstruction type of spell.

If he completes it using his own memories and studies, he should be able to transmute himself into another version of himself; sort of a dis/reintegration process. And, since doing that would send him through the Gates of Truth again, he could theoretically use it as a teleportation method; enter Wogdat's realm here, exit it again into a different location outside of Gluttony's pocket dimension. Elaborating further, Edward hopes that since the Gates of Gluttony are a failed experiment and not really part of the world as it's intended to work, when Wogdat sends him back to the "location" he plucked him from he'll appear next to Gluttony rather than inside of him.

It's...one hell of a longshot. And depends on some very untested assumptions about how Wogdat's realm and Gluttony's realm work.

Also, he seems to think that once the Gates are open, the other two will be able to jump in after him. And that Wogdat will put them back on the other side with him, rather than smiting them for trying to game the system or whatever. Longshot. Long, long, LONG shot.

But if the alternative is just sitting around in here until they starve to death or Envy kills them out of boredom, well...the long shot is their only shot.

Before they try it though, Edward has a question for Envy. Back in Xerxes, Edward saw some other symbols on the remaining part of the altar that these new findings put in a different light. There was a rune that represents God (which version of God, I wonder? We know there are multiple religions in this setting. Regardless, the Xerxians at least probably meant Wogdat, since they seemed to know how the universe actually works to a much greater degree than any modern civilization) that was inverted in this case. Then just beneath it, a two-headed dragon, which apparently represents a conceptual "perfect being." And now, on one of the gluttonized fragments that would have been opposite these symbols across the circle, there's a lion swallowing a philosopher's stone-colored sun.

So, something to the effect of consuming souls and becoming a perfect being who will cast down God. The fact that half of that altar is in here means that it was gluttonized, and that probably was done for a reason.

That phrasing. The person that was either Hohenheim or Father who Edward met in Resembool talked about how burning the house down was, in addition to spiteful, an attempt at hiding the evidence. In that same scene, he said that Edward reminded him of himself at that age.

Hmm. I don't think melting down an entire country's worth of people is something you could do by accident, though.

And, speaking of that, Edward's suspicion is the same as what I've been working under. And, given the visuals that the show provides for his narration, I think we're meant to understand that he is correct. The population of Xerxes was sacrificed to create philosopher's stone.

So, his question for Envy. Was her Father the one responsible for the fall of Xerxes? And, if so, is he using her and her siblings - born of that very destruction - to repeat the same process in Amestris?

Envy tells him that she'll answer all his questions as soon as he's gotten them free.

Well. Neither of them have anything else to negotiate with. So.

In order to perform human transmutation, of course, they'll need to pay a toll, and Edward is running out of limbs. So, Envy exposes her core and tells Edward to charge it to Father's account. Okay then! Maybe that can also cover any extra fees that transporting the other two with him might incur. Also, apparently you CAN use haemonculus cores as alchemy-fuel without having to purify them first; the haemonculus just needs to cooperate. Mustang *could* have used Lust's core back then, if she had let him. Noted.

Edward isn't sure if he's okay with using a philosopher's stone now, though, since thanks to Envy's mutable flesh the constituents of that stone are able to make him aware of their presence. When asked, she confirms that they are indeed Xerxian souls trapped inside of her, but tells him that they have no minds or thoughts coherent enough to make them "people" even by pitiful human standards of personhood. They don't remember who they used to be, they don't have hopes or dreams or aspirations, they're just raw consciousness-stuff waiting to be used for something else.

Edward has trouble taking that at face value. Since, you know. Some of them are using complete sentences to beg for help. Envy just laughs at him, and tells him that he just wants to believe that they're still living people because he wants to believe that his brother is still a living person, and his situation is similar to theirs.

What. Envy...what?

Alphonse can think. He has complete access to all of his past self's memories. He's capable of experiencing the full emotional range, learning and retaining new information, and having independent ideas and inspirations. If the souls in her core are in fact in a similar situation to Alphonse's, then everything she said about them being homogenized blank slates is even more bullshit than it already seemed.

But, Edward doesn't have a choice. And it's unlikely that using a little bit of Envy's power supply is going to make the Xerxian ghosts any worse off than they already are. Edward tells Yao that if they don't materialize together, he needs to warn everyone that he can about the apocalyptic event that he thinks is being planned for Amestris.

Envy's seething CGI faces are more unsettling when there's no music. This is the first time we've seen her true form without dramatic scoring, and it's weirding me out. And also making me notice that her CGI is actually really poorly matched to the rest of the show's art style, but oh well.

Yao says he doesn't care about Amestris, but he likes Edward so he'll do it for his sake. Good enough, I guess. Yao really has the tribal mentality going on, doesn't he? Strong morals, but only applicable to his ingroup. That could be a Xingite aristocrat thing, or it could just be a Yao thing.

Edward completes the basic, non-godslaying version of the circle. Then, he apologizes to the babbling faces, tells them he'll use them with care, and casts the spell. As he forms his spontaneous casting arm circle, Yao notices something that he hadn't before.

Woah.......

Damn.

That's got to chap Edward's /r/atheism asshole when he figures it out himself.

I guess that the praying hands gesture is universal in FMA-world, rather than just being tied to one particular religion like IRL. I wonder. Did that prayer gesture become a thing in this setting in imitation of spontaneous casters...or is it the reverse, and this is a sort of tribute that Wogdat exacts from those who behold his dubious glory? "Those who behold my Truth are given the power to perform miracles, but only by praying to me and acknowledging my greatness." Something along those lines? That definitely seems in character for a god of Wogdat's particular flavor of dickishness.

The other two step onto the giant blazing eyeball that just opened in the circle, and are vanished. A moment later, Edward is pulled after them, and sees Wiggly-Woggly taking his old limbs for a spin.

Either Wogdat isn't actually allknowing, or he's just pretending to be confused to fuck with Edward.

Meanwhile, Alphonse and Gluttony are at the door to Father's office, which looks like it might be designed to resemble Wogdat's door. Father is such a tosser lmao. Anyway, if Edward's plan works, it had better work now, because inside Father's room is going to be a very awkward place to appear.

Back to Edward. He's standing before the Gates of Truth. Gates plural, in this case. There are now two of them.

Maybe because he's going to be reconstructed into a different location, so there's one gate for entry and one for exit? Or because he's creating a new body for himself to inhabit at the destination, so original body comes in one, new body goes out the other? Something like that, I think.

Then he sees a thin, emaciated figure with long, wild blonde hair the color of his own sitting in front of the opposite gate.

Is this his new body, still in the finishing stages of being formed? Or, more likely given the overgrown hair and atrophied physique, is this Alphonse's body, sitting here being nourished by Edward's digestive and brain activity as they hypothesized?

Then it turns its head and looks at Edward, sadness in its sunken eyes. Edward's expression becomes one of abject horror. He runs toward it, calling Alphonse's name, but it tells him that it can't leave with him; he's not the right soul.

What.

How is.

If it's just the body, how is it talking?

I also am still baffled as to why there's actual physical air in this place, but that's a smaller issue right now.

Edward tries to grab it, calling Alphonse's name over and over again, but the gate behind him opens again, and Wogdat's tentacles pull him back in. Alphonse looks even more miserable than before as the gate closes behind Edward.

...and then a few seconds later, Edward punches the gate open again, struggling with the tentacles pulling him back in, and shouts that he WILL be back for him, and he WILL get him out of here.

Alphonse manages something like a smile as Edward is pulled back in again.

If this body is still conscious, and able to communicate and experience emotions and everything, then what the hell has been walking around in the golem body all this time? If it turns out that the "Alphonse" we've been following is actually just a p-zombie copied from the original's personality while said original is just quietly going mad for years in hell, then that's...it's not that it's too horrible for me to deal with, per se, but it's just cheap. There wasn't actually a conscious entity inside of the golem, all those times when we were being made to empathize with it and be invested in its wellbeing? Really? I have trouble believing that the author would pull something like that.

Maybe Alphonse's consciousness is sort of in both places at once? Or maybe there's a part of his subconscious mind that's still animating his original body, while the rest of his "self" operates the golem? That makes a little more sense, narratively if not metaphysically. I think? Maybe?

I am pretty much lost.

End episode. End season.

Well, to talk about this episode in isolation...

Too dense. It would have been hard enough just trying to grock Edward's escape plan and whatever the hell Alphonse's body had going on in quick succession. But putting yet another complicated metaphysical puzzle that requires more information than what we've been given in order to solve in there too with Wrath's origin story? That, I think, is what pushed me over the limit. Too many brain-twisters in too little time, and at least one of them wasn't even particularly necessary to include in this episode. Starting the season 2 pilot with Wrath's backstory (or hell, even having it BE the season pilot, with the results of Edward's teleportation and Alphonse's reaching of Father's lair being teased in the last few minutes or so. Wrath's story could have easily carried a twenty minute episode, with a bit more fleshing out) would have been a much better idea than squeezing it in here. It left me with insufficient brain cells to deal with "Reunion's" ending.

Well. The opening chords and vocals of the end credits theme made a perfect emotional backdrop for that last scene, at least. I did understand the scene emotionally, if not in any other capacity, and the song helped with it. I wouldn't be surprised if they wrote that ending theme specifically with this moment in mind.

Aside from that baffling end bit though, this episode was a big one with both plot advancement and revelations. Father aspires to literal godhood! It's not clear to me if he attempted it before in Xerxes, or if he was created by the "Grandfather" (Hohenheim?) who did so, but either way that's almost certainly what he's going for with this plan of his. Philosopher's stone contains actual, conscious souls of it's creator's victims! This makes it much harder to accept the existence of a living haemonculus, if their very life process is an ongoing atrocity with countless victims. Any existing philosopher's stone needs be destroyed, however one can do that. Wrath is a transhuman! Ish! I think! Edward may or may not now be linked to Envy and Yao the same way he is to Alphonse! Exclamation mark!

We're really going into the hardcore "dark fantasy" realm now, with the quests to free people from hell, the secret magical economy powered by tormented souls, etc. Well, it wasn't a totally unexpected genre direction, but it sure did it strongly. If anything, Father's more cartoon supervillain-like aspects seem a little out of place against these much grimmer elements.

Good episode, but it would have been much better as two or even three.

I was planning to do a season review for FMA:B, but I don't know if my schedule will permit it in anything like a timely manner, and I don't want to hold up my Let's Watch for it. So, I'll start with season 2 as scheduled in the queue, and either do a season one retrospective sometime in the future or just save it all for the end of the series as a whole.