"I'll thank him in my own way. I'll kill him." -- To some degree, [Heero] 's saying: "I'll kick his ass, if that's what he wants," and it's his usual dry tone. But maybe in another way it's a line drawn in the sand, saying: Zechs isn't up to Heero's level, and if Zechs wants to play at being so, Heero will show him the gratitude of a soldier, and slam him back down to his place.
To say that Heero will slam him back down to his place is awful reminiscent to the way Treize treats Zechs, don't you think? It's ironic in some ways... Heero is assuming--just like Treize--that he is superior to Zechs and that he'll win the battle, injury or no injury. It's like the way Treize is superior to Zechs even though Zechs is royalty and Treize is not. The "inferiority complex" that Zechs has might not be all that self-proclaimed, when you really think about it. Other than Noin and a few people who were willing to die for him, most of the crowd seems intent to assume that Zechs is just naturally inferior--there was Alex and Mueller, whom Zechs literally demoted himself to fight with under their command, and in the very beginning there were hinted tensions in the fact that although Zechs was Treize's right hand man, he himself had very limited power. And there was also the episode with Otto--Zechs couldn't handle Tallgeese and couldn't win Sanq on his own, but Otto--seemingly a random soldier, though obviously a longtime friend of Zechs--was stronger to his own death.
Getting back to Treize, Mr. K seems very intent on keeping a collar on Zechs--using his real name and thus Relena as a blackmail (I really think I heard blackmail in Treize's tone when he first said Millie's real name), and then there was the Une and Zechs metaphor earlier on with the two birds that he freed if only to come back to him, implying that they'd much rather stay in captivity in OZ, to the scene right here in ep 15 where the boy crawls away and then walks back, implying Treize is confident Zechs will return on his own... Treize has a habit of "slamming him back down to his place" quite often. Of course, where Heero is literal about it and does so only because Zechs asks for it (which is really ironic), Treize does it indirectly, from afar, and doesn't necessarily slam Zechs into his place so much as he assumes Zechs won't need to be slammed because he's potty trained and a Good Boy and thus already in his place to begin with. Which is worse in some ways.
What's even more ironic though is that when BOTH Heero and Treize assume they'll win the battle of slamming Zechs into his place, they also BOTH lose... Treize loses Zechs as a part of OZ, Heero got his ass kicked all over the glaciers. Funny isn't it?
From the young man [Heero] who could survive throwing himself out of a window, setting his own leg, and bending solid steel, he grunts in pain at just the act of putting on a coat.
That's because this injury is taking longer to heal than the others did--which could be direct physical link to the fact that he hasn't completely gotten over killing the doves or the fact that he's "on borrowed time" as you said. It's also the first injury that stays for a duration of episodes, also implying that even though Heero can do so many things, he's still not... well... perfect. He hurts, he bleeds and yes, he's human. It's probably there to contradict the way he was wowed with Duo... when you think about it, his time with Duo (flashy, lots of action, healthy, Heero Looks Good) and his time with Trowa (not-so-flashy, kind of depressed, injured, Heero Looks Bad) are complete opposites. Maybe that reflects Duo's and Trowa's weird character same-but-completely-different relationship? ^^; *thinks too much*
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Date: 10 May 2005 11:27 pm (UTC)Check. ^^;
"I'll thank him in my own way. I'll kill him." -- To some degree, [Heero] 's saying: "I'll kick his ass, if that's what he wants," and it's his usual dry tone. But maybe in another way it's a line drawn in the sand, saying: Zechs isn't up to Heero's level, and if Zechs wants to play at being so, Heero will show him the gratitude of a soldier, and slam him back down to his place.
To say that Heero will slam him back down to his place is awful reminiscent to the way Treize treats Zechs, don't you think? It's ironic in some ways... Heero is assuming--just like Treize--that he is superior to Zechs and that he'll win the battle, injury or no injury. It's like the way Treize is superior to Zechs even though Zechs is royalty and Treize is not. The "inferiority complex" that Zechs has might not be all that self-proclaimed, when you really think about it. Other than Noin and a few people who were willing to die for him, most of the crowd seems intent to assume that Zechs is just naturally inferior--there was Alex and Mueller, whom Zechs literally demoted himself to fight with under their command, and in the very beginning there were hinted tensions in the fact that although Zechs was Treize's right hand man, he himself had very limited power. And there was also the episode with Otto--Zechs couldn't handle Tallgeese and couldn't win Sanq on his own, but Otto--seemingly a random soldier, though obviously a longtime friend of Zechs--was stronger to his own death.
Getting back to Treize, Mr. K seems very intent on keeping a collar on Zechs--using his real name and thus Relena as a blackmail (I really think I heard blackmail in Treize's tone when he first said Millie's real name), and then there was the Une and Zechs metaphor earlier on with the two birds that he freed if only to come back to him, implying that they'd much rather stay in captivity in OZ, to the scene right here in ep 15 where the boy crawls away and then walks back, implying Treize is confident Zechs will return on his own... Treize has a habit of "slamming him back down to his place" quite often. Of course, where Heero is literal about it and does so only because Zechs asks for it (which is really ironic), Treize does it indirectly, from afar, and doesn't necessarily slam Zechs into his place so much as he assumes Zechs won't need to be slammed because he's potty trained and a Good Boy and thus already in his place to begin with. Which is worse in some ways.
What's even more ironic though is that when BOTH Heero and Treize assume they'll win the battle of slamming Zechs into his place, they also BOTH lose... Treize loses Zechs as a part of OZ, Heero got his ass kicked all over the glaciers. Funny isn't it?
From the young man [Heero] who could survive throwing himself out of a window, setting his own leg, and bending solid steel, he grunts in pain at just the act of putting on a coat.
That's because this injury is taking longer to heal than the others did--which could be direct physical link to the fact that he hasn't completely gotten over killing the doves or the fact that he's "on borrowed time" as you said. It's also the first injury that stays for a duration of episodes, also implying that even though Heero can do so many things, he's still not... well... perfect. He hurts, he bleeds and yes, he's human. It's probably there to contradict the way he was wowed with Duo... when you think about it, his time with Duo (flashy, lots of action, healthy, Heero Looks Good) and his time with Trowa (not-so-flashy, kind of depressed, injured, Heero Looks Bad) are complete opposites. Maybe that reflects Duo's and Trowa's weird character same-but-completely-different relationship? ^^; *thinks too much*