This episode is beautifully animated, the alley scene with Bradley and the black&white was incredible, and the score is perfect. Lapis philosophorum and Trisha's lullaby are the most beautiful Latin songs I've ever heard on TV. But the problem is that the show doesn't want to spend time explaining what alchemy is, explain the setting or the characters. It wants you to love the characters beforehand (watch original FMA y'all, it was great, though a bit poorly animated). But if you didn't watch the original show, you will not get anything. This episode is just a bunch of strangers doing some kind of magic (for people who haven't watched the original obviously). I personally did watch, and I loved this episode because I love the original, but yesterday I showed THIS to my mum (She likes anime, Guess she's a lady of culture:)). And you guess what - she didn't get anything, overloaded with information and characters, she already wanted to drop the show on the first episode, but luckily she liked the second one (but it was rushed too, again, original was better in character introduction). Overall, it's good for a fan, but cruel with new audience, and it won't get better, unfortunately. This show does as many things in 10 episodes as the original did in 20, and did them better, so if you Do want to enjoy The Fullmetal alchemist as an idea, philosophy and just the best anime ever created, watch FMA 2003 first, and then come back to Brotherhood.