That's... an interesting change. You weren't going to do it that way before. :-)

Yeah, Erik is a very passionate person, but he's usually much better at directing it. He has learned to control his temper over the years because that's part of effective leadership. But his emotions are very raw.

That does make sense though, that Alexi has never felt that. A lot of Erik's anger stems from the shame of failure, of having been tricked and captured, having put his own people at risk over a false lead. That's on top of well... everything else. If Alexi has truly never failed, then he would not really understand any of that.