I did seriously think about it. In fact, I even debated it with a friend who suggested me putting it in. In the end, though, she came to agree with me that it wasn't quite right for the essay, and there are a couple of reasons why. A purely frivolous one is that, for a line that's so remarkable in the show, it actually scans amazingly flat in print or when you tell someone about it--trust me, I've tried this repeatedly. A great deal of its power rests on John Glover's amazing delivery. I'm going to see if I can scare up a .wav file of it now that it's been brought up anyway, just for posterity or... well... .
More seriously, though... I don't think that was a particularly Zeke/Devil moment. It was extraordinarily telling for the Devil, to be sure, and added whole extra layers to his character, some of which you could easily build off of to create a Zeke/Devil story--but I'm not sure it stands at all in favor of or against them one way or another. It's sort of... an accessory; not necessarily part of the bedrock of their relationship, but certainly a fun addition to throw in if you so choose. So, ultimately, given that I was already running about a thousand words over the limit, I decided it required to much extrapolation to work in and left it out.
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Date: 2004-11-26 03:41 pm (UTC)More seriously, though... I don't think that was a particularly Zeke/Devil moment. It was extraordinarily telling for the Devil, to be sure, and added whole extra layers to his character, some of which you could easily build off of to create a Zeke/Devil story--but I'm not sure it stands at all in favor of or against them one way or another. It's sort of... an accessory; not necessarily part of the bedrock of their relationship, but certainly a fun addition to throw in if you so choose. So, ultimately, given that I was already running about a thousand words over the limit, I decided it required to much extrapolation to work in and left it out.
I could have been wrong, but.... *shrugs*