Quote Originally Posted by lelouch
No, I said that if they are going to do a retelling of an anime following the manga storyline when the storylines diverged less than half way through the series, I'd prefer it better that they just make a new anime altogether slightly based off the manga.

Of course many may disagree, it is just that FMA is my favorite anime just the way it was, so I won't like to see any parts of it changed.

For many other viewers it may be similar to retelling naruto from the middle of the chuunin exam, and have naruto/sasuke defeat orochimaru right there and then in the forest, and then change the storyline to something else.

Again, many may disagree, it is just my opinion.
Oh I see what you mean. No I think that's what they intend, it wouldn't make sense to start from some point in the previous anime since even the beginning of the FMA wasn't completely true to the manga.