On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Wayne H. Yin wrote:
> hey walter,
>
> > There is however one counterexample I can think of to the discussion you
> > outline below. In the first movie, when Yang's ship flies up underneath
> > the Brunhild in order to stop the fighting, Reinhard gets angry and
> > shouts "Kircheis! We can't give up this victory just for my life and
> > this ship! Attack!", Whereupon Steinmetz, captain of the Brunhild,
> > stands up and says "Excellency, you are in command of the fleet but I am
> > captain of this ship!"
> >
> actually, i think this instance is something of an anomaly. no doubt,
> it took a lot of balls for steinmetz to stand his ground to reinhard,
> something that reinhard probably picked him for anyway to command his
> flagship Brunhild.
>
> when you think about it, every other flagship commander meekly allows
> the admiral to give orders despite it being tantamount to suicide, and is
> rewarded by being blown up. erlache comes to mind.
>
> imagine if instead of reinhard, steinmetz had stood up to mittermeyer.
> personally, i think that mittermeyer might have had him shot on the spot!
> relieved of command of the Beowolf, at least. how about meckenberger? i
> don't think so!
>
> yeah, walter, this whole thing is anomalous WRT the rest of the series.
>
> --
> Wayne H. Yin
> why@mail.utexas.edu
>
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