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Originally Posted by SleepingTerror
You know, I actually thought their interaction foreshadowed a MiraFrey ending.
It doesn't bother you that he has no morals? That the deaths of people around him have absolutely no affect on him? That he has questioned absolutely nothing of the adults' decisions? Made no effort to use his authority as a means of getting answers? Ignorance may not be a crime, but conduct arising from ignorance is  |
What deaths around him? Up until this episode (and last), nobody died in Windermere. He has had no contact with deaths (except his father's which made him do as Roid said because it was "my father's will"), you're demanding him to have abstract thinking, which is an ignorant and unreasonable demand because he's not capable for it at that age. Again, you're
not seeing he's a child and not a little adult who happens to look like a child. Those complicated thought processes aren't really something a kid are capable of doing.
Children start to developing "morals" (what you understand as morals, anyway) around 12 years old when they start to be less self-focused (and comes with abstract thinking developing to boot). There's a reason why armies started indoctrinating child soldiers on Heinz's age group.
Because they are
malleable and would do as trusted adults say. At that age, the sense of morality they have is about the rules of the
immediate environment. So yes, only Windermere laws and rules and justice and fairness which is what he's displaying and following. According to Piaget and other researchers, children between the ages of 5-6 to 10-12 see the world through what's called a "Heteronomous Morality". Meaning that children think that authority figures (parents, teachers, guardians: aka Roid, Gramia, Keith) have rules that they (children) must follow
absolutely. Rules are thought of as real, unchangeable guidelines rather than evolving, negotiable, or situational ones, by the way. Only when they grow older and develop more abstract thinking, children become capable of forming more flexible rules and applying them selectively for the sake of shared objectives and a desire to co-operate.
Heinz is 9-10 years old. He has a heteronomous morality. It's kind of child psychology 101. You're asking him to rebel and stuff which is
unrealistic for his age (it would be expected in a few more years). Secondly, in the first half of the show Heinz had doubts and hesitated about what he should do but Keith, Gramia and later Roid pretty much gave him a speech about WINDERMERE JUSTICE, DO THIS (and die for it), so he's pretty much doing exactly as they told him to do (including the dying part to Keith's horror
). They laid down the rules. It's Freyja's word against... uh his dead dad's and beloved brother's? I mean I love Freyja, but while she planted the idea and Heinz did question about songs and music (which is good), he's not going to suddenly go against his father's will unless he learns: 1) Roid lied about being his father's will; 2) Keith finally speaks his goddamn mind and voices he's against this (which we know he is, but he
doesn't speak up). He needs someone of
his circle actually being against this and that they informed it (Neither Cassim and Herman actually
told him their suspicion and dislike for the turns of events).
Frankly speaking I'm impressed that, despite the bad writing is rampant in the second half, they are portraying a child in power as... an
actual child in power. They aren't trying to moralize or make him more mature and ready to deal with this impossible situation correctly because that's unrealistic. It's not an adult in a little boy package as you all seem expecting, it's a child. It's not really a matter of temper and personality, it's about how your brain develops at that stage.
Saying all this it doesn't mean that Windermere leadership is ah-Okay, but Heinz is not responsible for it. He's a victim of
child abuse which I doubt will ever get acknowledged.
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The claim that Deltas music sells better than Frontiers ever did seemed totally preposterous to me, but I didn't have the numbers. 
