Well, yeah, the too obvious thing was another big tipoff. But as I pointed out to one of my friends when he watched the series, he was speculating that Gin might not be the one pulling all the strings, where I was dead certain he could not be the mastermind.
Gin is... well, as I was thinking last night, Gin's like the kid in the class who comes from a home where his parents don't love each other, and who hits the other kids because he doesn't know any other way to express himself. He's at once both envious and fearful of the affection other people show each other, and desires it, but doesn't know how to get it, and in the occasional case he does, what to do with it. So he falls back on the only way he does know how to deal with people- hitting them.
He's probably not irredeemable, I think his regret and apology to Matsumoto was genuine, but on the other hand, he again just doesn't know how to love or be loved. He isn't loyal to Aizen, no, not in the way Tousen would be. He has no loyalty to the cause, just his own self-interest, and the fact that he knows that he can't hit Aizen, because Aizen hits harder. And that's something Gin does understand. If he thought he could get away with it, he'd have nothing stopping him from hitting Aizen and betraying him. He simply right now knows that he can't. And Aizen is probably well aware of this too, I doubt he would've taken Gin on without being well aware of what kind of person and temperment he was dealing with...
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*snickers* Poor you ;p
Date: 2006-09-13 06:12 pm (UTC)Gin is... well, as I was thinking last night, Gin's like the kid in the class who comes from a home where his parents don't love each other, and who hits the other kids because he doesn't know any other way to express himself. He's at once both envious and fearful of the affection other people show each other, and desires it, but doesn't know how to get it, and in the occasional case he does, what to do with it. So he falls back on the only way he does know how to deal with people- hitting them.
He's probably not irredeemable, I think his regret and apology to Matsumoto was genuine, but on the other hand, he again just doesn't know how to love or be loved. He isn't loyal to Aizen, no, not in the way Tousen would be. He has no loyalty to the cause, just his own self-interest, and the fact that he knows that he can't hit Aizen, because Aizen hits harder. And that's something Gin does understand. If he thought he could get away with it, he'd have nothing stopping him from hitting Aizen and betraying him. He simply right now knows that he can't. And Aizen is probably well aware of this too, I doubt he would've taken Gin on without being well aware of what kind of person and temperment he was dealing with...