Wait...Attolia had him beaten, didn't she... Ugh, I'm disgusted with my patchy memory of QT. But either way, I remember thinking that Gen got his retribution for having been tortured by Relius. Basically, I totally agree with your thoughts, but I think that it's not really that Gen "saw the similarities between the two circumstances"--for some reason, this sounds like a gradual realization. He's in more control than that. It's more like Gen immediately saw that their circumstances were practically exactly the same.