Quentin's & Jamison's loving (familial) relationship plays out quite genuinely on the surface but I can't get past Quentin using Jamison the way he is and labeling it as true affection. I don't know how to say it professionally but I think that if you truly love someone you wouldn't use them to do bad things to suit your own selfish (and wrong) desires...
Yes but, here you're placing a value judgement on someone else's feelings and love for another. If we stand back and judge, yes -- we can say, "well, Quentin doesn't REALLY love the child because look how he uses him for his own selfish ends -- you don't really do that to someone you love."
What we see of Quentin so far, is a selfish, greedy, conniving, immature man. There have only been a few hints so far, of what lies below the surface. (Example: The scene yesterday between Beth and him where his manner is quite different - letting down his guard, revealing some disquieting emotions, wanting to talk. He's sincere when he says. "I need you."
Also the other day when he's talking to Judith and she accuses him of always hating her. There's a look of quiet sadness on his face when he replies that he'd always thought that it was SHE who hated him.)
Quentin's a complex character and becomes more multi-dimensional as Selby and the writers develop him.
ANYWAY, lol, from Quentin and Jamison's point of view, they love each other - their feelings are quite clear. At this point in Quentin's emotional maturity, (not very impressive LOL), he loves him as much as he's capable of loving him. Then of course, you can get into a whole discussion of how we use each other in relationships - the subtle and not so subtle ways. We always use the ones we love in one way or another - and usually the ones we love the most. I mean, I love my mother NO END and more and more each day, and I use the HELL out of her. It all becomes very complicated, but interesting when you start examining all this stuff.
I better stop here 'cause I'm going on too much. But suffice it to say, I've learned over the last few years not to judge someone else's love, but to accept it with an understanding of who that person is and what they are, and are not capable of.
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