Fullmetal Alchemist, Brotherhood, Episode 26- Party Interlude

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!
So this episode was a little tough to cover because most of it is re-treading a lot of things we've already seen. While it's understandable that we might need a refresh while watching this in real time, for the way I'm watching it just feels really redundant.
However, there are also the interspersed scenes of Hempstool dreaming that he's at a party with Pinako, and reflecting on how human beings are violent and stupid and make the same mistakes over and over again. We see that there's a glasses-less version of him that seems to believe human beings are meant to be used as fuel for the experiments that they (he?) have been working on. So what's up with that?
Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!