FULL METAL ALCHEMIST-THOSE WHO CHALLENGE THE SUN-EPISODE 1-3 STARS

First scene, Ed and Al are walking through the desert, and…….Wait a minute, who in the hell can survive out in a desert, and why are they walking? “See Ed, if you didn’t burn your house down in episode 3 like an idiot, you could have sold it, or rented it out to someone else. Then you’d have enough money to buy a car, or a horse, or at least a canteen!” Now Al’s soul is encased in armor, so he should be alright, but I don’t think Ed is gonna make it. Oh wait, he has to survive, the show just started, so it would be kind of dumb to kill off the protagonist.

Okay, so he’s walking through the desert, and barely makes it to the town of Liore, and I guess  in search of the philosopher stone. Everybody is really friendly in this town, but they also seem to be kind of stupid, following some dude who calls himself Sir Cornello, a supposed miracle worker.

A woman named Rose shows up, and is more than happy to take Ed and Al to see Cornello. She  jokes that maybe he’ll be able to give Ed some height. Oh yeah? “Well Rose, maybe Cornello can perform a miracle and hook you up with a better hairstyle, ’cause that two tone crap in your hair makes you look rediculous!” By the way, just exactly how tall (or short) is Ed?

Whatever, anyway Cornello knows how to do a few tricks, but he’s far from being a miracle worker. However, he’s able to convince the whole town along with Rose that he’s the second coming, and promises to bring back her dead boyfriend, all in due time. Now Al thinks that it may be possible, but Ed senses a phony and knows that alchemy is involved.

Well if that’s the case, isn’t Cornello defying the laws of alchemy by not using a transmutation circle? Ed decides to spoil Rose’s party by telling her there’s no way in hell that her boyfriend can be resurrected from the dead, even with the help of science. He also says that alchemist are the closest things to God, but I think he’s getting a little too full of himself, so he needs to just sit down, shut up, and let people believe what they want to believe.

Now Cornello knows a lot about the full metal alchemist, and plans to take him out. First, his assistant Cray blows Al’s head off, but c’mon, he doesn’t have a body anymore, and I don’t think you can kill a soul.

Using the philosopher stone, Cornello turns the floor into sand so Ed can’t use a transmutation circle. Then, he releases a fierce lion. Wow, I’m glad I’m at home, looking at this on TV where is cozy and safe, “Good luck Ed!” Hey wait, how was he able to conjure up that spear out of the sand?

Cornello continues to use alchemy powers to release this horrid bird, but Ed owns, and that’s it. But the lion is not done yet, and comes back for more punishment, but ends up chewing on Ed’s mechanical arm. Ed gets tired of it and slaps it into oblivion. Now Cornello is all pissed off, but hey, he’s the full metal alchemist, what did you expect?

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