i think Ryl did well bringing up MFauli's question from the first episode. there is a TON of stuff crammed into this episode, and in many ways I think it was bad to give us so much backstory without developing the characters more. Based on just these two episodes, I'd hardly care about Ed or Al at this point, much less their mom or Winry...

They really jumped back and forth too much in this episode. They're working to set the story, but they littered this episode with tons of plot points, and didn't do well elaborating more than two of them.

They could "go back and add more" to stuff like their training, Ed's re-training, before their mom died, about Winry's parents suddenly being dead. But I've never been a fan of delivering the main course of a backstory first, then giving the appetizers and "rounding it out" with little add-ons here and there. Always feels like poor planning to me...

I did enjoy the scene where Mustang found the brothers. His VA is absolutely fine in my book. The part with Hawkeye was good as well. They did cut one of my favorite things out of the State Alchemist Examination part, but I absolutely love King Bradley, and so anything with him is solid gold in my book. I was on the fence about the way they did "The Truth", but that isn't the kind of thing you can easily package into an anime. Probably shouldn't have tried to put any humor in that scene...