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Current Talk '06 II / Re: Moments that made you go "WHAT?!!!!"
« on: October 04, 2006, 02:02:29 PM »
Quentin evolved... but he didn't turn into a simple 'good guy' without flaws. He was still evolving up through the time he left Collinwood, to the point where he showed much more consideration and fondness for Beth, and was torn up over his involvement in what happened to her. But people seldom 'evolve' completely.
He was not necessarily in love with Beth. His evolution just may have been leading him toward owning up to Beth that he didn't feel toward her all that she felt toward him, so as not to lead her on. Either way, he didn't get a chance to move toward or away from Beth because of other events.
One thing that makes it hard to evolve 'completely', if there is such a thing, is that we can't be totally aware of the flaws in our own perceptions, because our perceptions are all we have. If we're emotionally impulsive it's even harder. Maybe some are hard-wired that way. Quentin is coming to understand his own jerky tendencies more and more, but there are still aspects of his impulsive nature that he hasn't come to grips with late in the 1897 storyline. Many people have believed in love at first sight, and that love conquers all.... and that if you feel something, that matters more than anything else. Pretty naive and potentially hurtful to others and self-serving, but Q was still in his twenties.
He was not necessarily in love with Beth. His evolution just may have been leading him toward owning up to Beth that he didn't feel toward her all that she felt toward him, so as not to lead her on. Either way, he didn't get a chance to move toward or away from Beth because of other events.
One thing that makes it hard to evolve 'completely', if there is such a thing, is that we can't be totally aware of the flaws in our own perceptions, because our perceptions are all we have. If we're emotionally impulsive it's even harder. Maybe some are hard-wired that way. Quentin is coming to understand his own jerky tendencies more and more, but there are still aspects of his impulsive nature that he hasn't come to grips with late in the 1897 storyline. Many people have believed in love at first sight, and that love conquers all.... and that if you feel something, that matters more than anything else. Pretty naive and potentially hurtful to others and self-serving, but Q was still in his twenties.