(Oh, but did they waste the "useless in rain" comment in one of these episodes? I think they did.)
If I remember correctly, Hawkeye makes a crack about it in the first episode (and I think reveals that she carries a bunch of extra gloves around for him?) but then later on the scene that's supposed to have that reveal plays out as per the manga. So it's another way in which the first episode really doesn't make any sense.
Re: Mustang's intro, I've encountered a subset of fans who seem determined to view him as morally upstanding and straightforwardly heroic (aside from the whole war crimes thing, I guess?) and in my experience they tend to be people whose first intro to FMA was brotherhood. Whereas I don't think his subsequent character development unfolds as well if you don't get that initial impression that he's a slacker and kind of a lightweight. (IIRC, Brotherhood keeps a later reference where Havoc complains about Roy slacking off to go on dates all the time, which doesn't actually make any sense without the previous setup.)
I don't mean to be negative Nancy in your comments, btw! I think the series really picks up after the first few eps; it's just those few things at the start that I find frustrating.
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If I remember correctly, Hawkeye makes a crack about it in the first episode (and I think reveals that she carries a bunch of extra gloves around for him?) but then later on the scene that's supposed to have that reveal plays out as per the manga. So it's another way in which the first episode really doesn't make any sense.
Re: Mustang's intro, I've encountered a subset of fans who seem determined to view him as morally upstanding and straightforwardly heroic (aside from the whole war crimes thing, I guess?) and in my experience they tend to be people whose first intro to FMA was brotherhood. Whereas I don't think his subsequent character development unfolds as well if you don't get that initial impression that he's a slacker and kind of a lightweight. (IIRC, Brotherhood keeps a later reference where Havoc complains about Roy slacking off to go on dates all the time, which doesn't actually make any sense without the previous setup.)
I don't mean to be negative Nancy in your comments, btw! I think the series really picks up after the first few eps; it's just those few things at the start that I find frustrating.