also hey sidebar real quick; what the fuck is up with Septem's family??
Both Septem's dad and Gwinter are chill!!! They're cool!!! They've got consciences and working moral compasses and everything! what the FUCK happened in between generations to give us Septem??? What all star batter hit that one, specific apple so far from the goddamn tree??
And what the fuck were they feeding Gwinter to make him 9 million feet tall?? Zechs comes up to his *shoulder*. I'm baffled. Touching the earth. What happened here.
Thinking about Treize attacking the prototype mobile dolls in a Leo suit and directly threatening the command center and how absolutely crazy that must have been for Dermail specifically.
That's his nephew with the business end of a beamsaber pointed at the room full of Romefeller financiers and himself, going shark-eyed and telling his soldiers to execute their chief engineer, and they're about to do it, right in front of the leader of Romefeller, without a question. Dermail's gotta be thinking about they raised and groomed the family prodigy for power and now they're looking at the results of that labor and thinking "we have GOT to put that man in a smaller cage".
Also, like,, I know this is probably just a fluke of translation, but the choice of words to "murder Tuberov" vs. "execute Tuberov" is so compelling to me. "Execute" would imply that Treize has the authority to issue a command to have the chief engineer of Romefeller killed on behalf of Romefeller-- which he very much doesn't. Instead he says "murder", and every soldier in the room says "how high". This is a personal request. It's his little Cersei Lannister "power is power" moment.
It's just so, so bad when they do that! you hand raise them from cubs and they're so cute but then they grow up and turn into exactly the thing you trained them to be and now they're sizing you up! There's nothing you can do at that point but put them down, oof you hate to see it!
like Unfortunately he has principles. We thought he'd eventually grow out of those, but he never did, poor fool. It's such a shame, such a waste of a good asset. Like jfc if Treize hadn't resigned in person Dermail was going to have him poisonstabbed six times to death.
Treize was always going to be a problem for them in the long run, but that has to have been the exact moment Dermail decided he needed hobbling. And more than that, humbled-- No, you don't get to play with your toys anymore, you don't get to give your friends special favors, you're not going to save them when they get into trouble. Tuberov decides what happens in space, Lady Une answers to him and Dermail. We decide what you "say" on behalf of OZ. You work as *part* of the PR team that's manufacturing conflict, that's your job; you don't command and you don't lead and you don't set doctrine. (When Treize eventually steps down, Tuberov becomes the commander of OZ, which makes me wonder if that was in the pipeline already.) We don't even want you as a "dazzling mirage" for the soldiers anymore. You can do that from a distance, they don't even need to see the real you to do that, and besides, pretty soon we'll have mobile dolls that don't need inspiring.
(god, episode 22 is the most dense neutron star of an episode. every ten seconds there's something to unpack. chef kiss.)
I can't help but think that Dermail having both Treize and Tuberov report to him at the same time is a power move. Making them stand next to each other at the front of the class where they have to behave. And they're equals now. Except Tuberov is the one calling the shots, the one directly coordinating with Lady Une, who is readily accepting of his agenda. And he says so, to Treize's face, in a truly "that's not what your girlfriend said last night" kind of way. And I just think. I just think that's on purpose. There aren't any soldiers in that room to dazzle. Just shareholders, and you answer to them now. Be a good boy and do as you're told.
Thank you, Duo. Treize agrees. He doesn't remember signing off on that one. Colony FM Radio Host: Treize and Une are helping us manufacture mobile dolls in space! , Treize: Source please
Authoritarian regimes always eat themselves and baby, it's dinner time. Love this for me. Love seeing my man on the menu. That's why they're the Specials.
God he's so sad. God he hates that he's so good at this part of power. God he wishes he was Zechs. You want to be Zechs so bad right now it makes you look stupid. The one woman who still believes in you just called you a god and it broke your heart so thoroughly you decided to break hers right back.
I love him, he's wretched, he's everything, he's dissolving in the dredges of glory, he's balancing on one foot at the razor's edge of the highest peak and realizing there's nowhere to go but down and he can either jump or wait to be pushed. The ideals he's lived and breathed and killed for and was ready to die for are all revealing themselves to be hollow and recursive, the idea that the powerful could and should reign responsibly in order to save humanity from itself is made of tinsel and gold-plated bullshit, the eternal human urge to fight becoming a resignation rather than an inspiration, an inevitability to be suffered rather than the road to apotheosis. I'm going to shake him with my teeth until his squeaker comes out.
@wordsandrobots and his partner are watching Gundam Wing and i am being unfairly persecuted for unjust and cruelly terrible reasons such as my belief that Wing is good actually and makes sense if you REALLY look at it and also ignore the many things that do not make sense and are not good.
AND IS THIS A CRIME???
NAY, I SAY
and yet, ladies and gentleman of the jury, I have been subjected to such indignigites and offences AS:
Scruffing by the neck until sideways
the damages were severe.
AND:
UNAUTHORIZED LION COLORS
the changes have left me vulnerable to ducks, and VFX background removal.
BUT YOU WILL NOT SILENCE ME!!!! I SHALL NOT YIELD TO THIS VICIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST SMALL BONELESS FELINES!
