[i]It’s a pretty good show. I’d probably rate it higher if it weren’t for the fact that I saw the original Full Metal Alchemist series from 2003. For context for those of you that haven’t seen the original FMA series, the first dozen or so episodes of Brotherhood feel very, very rushed. The way it introduces characters, and establishes character relationships, the way certain plot points are introduced and then resolved - everything feels rushed. I’m also not a fan of the way the animation looks in those early episodes, or how the show transitions from serious to silly, and then back again. Brotherhood becomes a significantly better show once it starts covering the new material that original series never had a chance to tell ( this is because the original FMA series was animated before the manga officially finished, so the manga and the show begin to diverge after a certain point, and the original series has a completely different ending. Brotherhood on the other hand is very fateful to the manga ). In many ways FMA is comparable to Game of Thrones, in how both shows began, and how they eventually ended. Brotherhood on the other hand is like a reverse Game of Thrones, where the creators are rushing through the beginning of the show, because they assume most of their audience is already familiar with this story ( because they’ve seen the original show ), and they don’t t care about setting up everything. They only care about telling the new stuff, which is where they start delivering their A-game.[/i]