| Re: Mid wife Ed!?
You obviously didn't watch that episode or you'd remember it.
It's when they are training for the military alchemist exams with the doctor guy (before the tragic stories occur with him...) and when Ed heats up the water in the basin it's the first time (chronologically, you've seen it before in the anime but this is a flashback) that he discovers he can perform alchemy without a circle.
They reflect on how their mother went through that and how alchemists couldn't do what mothers do in a million years.
It's actually a pretty continual theme throughout the anime, how equivilent exchange isn't true because you get new life basically for free, how there is an inherant quality to it, it comes back near the end involving Rose... |