babe/roe starting to tickle my interest, but I can't say I fully understand the dynamic yet. I get eugene's side. throughout the series and especially in bastogne we see how isolated eugene is from the other men because when shit hits the fan he has to be objective about their medical care and do what he needs to do. he can't buddy up with them because if they get hit and he loses them the blow will be too great and he can't work in those conditions. he meets renee who unlike the other guys of easy, besides spina, understands exactly what he's going through and how hard it is to treat these wounded men. he loses her, but maybe in knowing her he realizes he needs someone in his corner, that he can't completely distance himself, so he allows himself to get closer to babe
what I'd like to hear people's thoughts on is what babe gets out of his relationship with eugene. we see that babe is pretty integrated into easy even though he was a replacement because he has that connection with bill. we see him laughing and joking around with the guys and he's well-liked. is it just that he sees how gene is different from the other men and feels some sort of draw to him because he's mysterious and reserved? i.e. he calls babe edward/heffron when no one else calls him that. babe is obviously really torn up about julian and felt some sort of responsibility for saving him but couldn't get to him, so is it that he's feeling eugene's pain of losing men?
anyways, these probably aren't original thoughts by any means but I haven't been active in the fandom in this capacity even though I watched the show ten years ago so I'm still new to the fandom interpretations of these characters/their dynamics. television man.......
“Roe was the best medic we ever had. You hollered, 'Medic!" he was right there come hell or high water"
― William Guarnere, Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends