FMA plot and lessons learnt...

[Hautalken]

What do you think the story of Fullmetal Alchemist has to tell? I mean, usually an anime has a message for its viewers and I really couldn't understand it in FMA. Secondly, what about the plot of the whole show? Where did it all lead to in the end?

I agree its a great anime, but there should be a meaning to the whole thing right?:closedeye

[Doom85]

I agree its a great anime, but there should be a meaning to the whole thing right?:closedeye

Well, it has several:

-you have to work hard to gain something (equivalent exchange)
-don't discriminate (Ishbalans)
-everything that lives has to die (Dante failing to live forever, Izumi's lessons)
-you can't solve bloodshed with more bloodshed (Scar)
-our world's imperfection makes you appreciate it more (Roy's words to Hawkeye at the end of the anime)

I'm sure there are more.

But actually, no, there does not HAVE to be a concrete meaning. I mean, when Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings, he flat out said he simply wanted to tell a good story. Any meanings, symbolism, or allegories that fans note were not intended by the author. So you don't need to have a moral or such in every story.

[EnneadNokonx]

Agree with Doom.

[IC3]

That you shouldn't play God.

[DARKMizuSasuke]

Doom 85: I think you've basically answered everything plain and simple :) Reps for you!

[Oracle]

That you shouldn't play God.

I so agree with you, if you try to play God, in the end something terrible happens.

[lynne88]

I also believe that sibling bonds are in there somewhere. The lengths that the two brothers go for each other is incredible.

Otherwise, I feel that Doom hit it right on the head.

[Rafear]

I, also think that doom pretty much got it.

I think to two heaviest where:
1. Don't play god. (The punishment the Elrics received for that folly should be enough for that.)
2. All living things, without exception, will eventually die. (Immortality is so over-rated......)

[Hautalken]

Thanks for posting everyone ^^
I guess I got my answer then. And Doom85 is SO right!


Reppies coming your way...

[FULLMETAL TIGRESS]

This are the lessons that I have learned from Hagane No Renkinjutsushi/Fullmetal Alchemist/Hagaren/FMA..
1)Brotherhood:The love and care that feel for each other Edward and Alphonse even if their mother asked them to do it as a promise few seconds before her dead.
2)The Equivalent Exchange: Nobody can't gain something without lost something of the same value. I love the way Edward defends that theory because it's the truth behind all the thruths.:awe: Dante just made a fool of herself deniening this theory and she jus got her equivalent exchange when gluttony ate her. Everybody must believe in the Equivalent Exchange and must be careful with your actions guys.:yeahthat: Remember that the equivalent exchange is between us:sofa:.
3)Nobody musn't play being a God remember that once something is dead remains dead for always at least if that person suffers from that desease that appear dead but he or she or it isn't dead Catalepsy i guess is the right spell of this word.
4)You can't judge a book for his appearence. Thanx Edward for teach me that.:lol2: No, really that's true, we can't judge people for his or her appereance, where they come from, Edward and Alphonse taugh me that when they were with the Ishbalans and Edward remind me that lesson again when he meet the Gypsie Girl.
5)The 7 Cardinals Sins.
Gluttony
Wrath
Lust
Sloth
Greed
Proud
Envy
All the carathers have something in common with their transmutations:
Dante was Greedy and Proudy.
Izumi was Wrathy almost all time with Edward and Alphonse.
Hohemhaim was envy of what?
Edward and Alphonse were slothy? i don't think so ... maybe because they don't create the philosopher's Stone themselves and Gluttony we don't know who creates him... and scar's brother was Lusty? i don't know either:banghead: