While I like the story of Brotherhood better, it doesn't have quite the emotional draw the original has. Also I like the music for the original a lot more than brotherhood. Brothers is still my favorite anime song to date. I feel like it was sort of smart for Brotherhood to quickly cover what happened in the original, but it did lose a lot of the emotional tension. Hughes's death was no where near as horrible in brotherhood, even when I watched the original a second time it still hit me pretty hard.