3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season Five, Episode Nine (Episode Fifty-Nine)

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Season Five Episode Nine: Lost Light - **   Spoilers: Yes. Audience Assumptions: None   Part One: Lies When we last left our heroes, Hawkeye's throat had been slit and she was being held against Mustang to force him to commit human transmutation. The previous episode ended with him breaking and saying, "All…

Another Day – Scott Pilgrim, Book Five

What happens after the monster is defeated? What happens when the hero has to settle down and re-acclimate to an ordinary life? I’ve always loved stories that ask these questions, that treat the usual climax as a secondary focus, prioritizing the emotional journey the character faces even if they’ve stopped moving their legs. Scott Pilgrim…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season Three, Episode Ten (Episode Thirty-Six)

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes. Audience Assumptions: None   Season Three Episode Ten: Family Portrait - **   Part One: Well, Armstrong, That May Be a Bit Much To be honest, this episode is split between a few…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season Three, Episode Nine (Episode Thirty-Five)

  Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes. Audience Assumptions: None   Season Three Episode Nine: The Shape of This Country - ****   Part One: If it Ain't Broke... We return after an unintended hiatus! I would love…

Figures in the Distance – Scott Pilgrim, Book Four

This is the book I've been rearing to write about. The Scott Pilgrim books are all enjoyable, but the latter half of the series raises the stakes to much more than relationship drama and magical battles. I love both of those, but now they have layers. Now the books charge ahead with all of the…

The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Scott Pilgrim, Book Three

The culmination of tension in the past two books as to the identify and significance of Scott’s former squeeze precipitates here as we finally meet the mysterious Envy Adams. To further complicate matters, she’s here with Todd, Ramona’s third evil ex. Unlike the short fights in the previous two novels, this one extends through the…

Meals and Mimickry – Scott Pilgrim, Book Two

Relationships are hard, what with boyfriends and girlfriends and friend-friends, some of whom have secret evil exes that attack you at random with lethal weaponry and sick finishers. It's a common problem. We rejoin Scott and company as they struggle through the difficulties of Canadian adolescence, Scott with the dual quests of breaking up with…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season Three, Episode Five (Episode Thirty-One)

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: None   Season Three Episode Five: The 520 Cens Promise - **   Part One: Reconvening This episode features Mustang contemplating how spread out his underlings have become, Ed and Al…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season Three, Episode Four (Episode Thirty)

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: None   Season Three Episode Four: The Ishvalan War of Extermination - ***   Part One: Hawkeye the Alchemist In this episode, we get an in-depth look at what happened in…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season Three, Episode Three (Episode Twenty-Nine)

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: None   Season Three Episode Three: Struggle of the Fool - ****   Part One: The Shuffle Little happens as characters regroup and inform each other about what they've learned. Ed…