Remember in One Shot, One Kill, when Tony found out Gibbs hadn't worn his vest? "I'm going to kill him", I think is the quote. Tony was pissed and I got the feeling Gibbs heard about it. The thing is, Tony will only ever chew Gibbs out in private. He won't do it in front of anyone else, because Gibbs is the boss. You don't rag on the boss and possibly undermine his authority. Gotta remember he attended a military academy for his high school. He learned this young. His comment to Gibbs comparing him to Captain Ahab was just the two of them (yeah, they were on the stairs, but they were also speaking quietly). As Gibbs' second, he has to set the tone for the others. He's got to jump higher and react faster than anyone else.
Oh! And in Agent Afloat, when Gibbs was on the transport plane, the captain told Tony something about "I've got a man on that plane!" Tony responded with, "So do I." When it's just the two of them, when the rest of the team isn't there, they do come across as feeling fairly equal to each other. No question of who's in charge, but they relate to each other far differently on their own than they do with the rest of the team at hand.
Tony has many, many masks and I would dearly love to see more about where they originated and if he's completely aware of why he uses them. He is, by far, the most complex character on the show.
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ninetydegrees
Tony's like an ogre, I mean onion... :-)
on 2009-01-29 04:54 am (UTC)Everyone's said just about everything. :-)
Remember in One Shot, One Kill, when Tony found out Gibbs hadn't worn his vest? "I'm going to kill him", I think is the quote. Tony was pissed and I got the feeling Gibbs heard about it. The thing is, Tony will only ever chew Gibbs out in private. He won't do it in front of anyone else, because Gibbs is the boss. You don't rag on the boss and possibly undermine his authority. Gotta remember he attended a military academy for his high school. He learned this young. His comment to Gibbs comparing him to Captain Ahab was just the two of them (yeah, they were on the stairs, but they were also speaking quietly). As Gibbs' second, he has to set the tone for the others. He's got to jump higher and react faster than anyone else.
Oh! And in Agent Afloat, when Gibbs was on the transport plane, the captain told Tony something about "I've got a man on that plane!" Tony responded with, "So do I." When it's just the two of them, when the rest of the team isn't there, they do come across as feeling fairly equal to each other. No question of who's in charge, but they relate to each other far differently on their own than they do with the rest of the team at hand.
Tony has many, many masks and I would dearly love to see more about where they originated and if he's completely aware of why he uses them. He is, by far, the most complex character on the show.