Selby owned this ep. He's a great finger snapper, yes? And he was marvelous at playing the shameless hypocrite, and at lording it over Laura that he was settling their score. ....And with all the murder attempts, threats, and physical assaults that we know Quentin has pulled off, it's a WONDER that he has not successfully killed someone. Yet. That we know of.
So, will Dirk light Laura's fire using sex to rejuvenate her? Sure looks like it, doesn't it? How else would she be "restored"?
My answers: No, no, and by tapping into the powers now within him. ![[snow_undecided]](http://www.dsboards.com/SMF/Smileys/classic/snow_undecided.gif "Snowman Undecided")
That scene between Quentin and Laura was sexy, wasn't it? You know they were once lovers, ... But he touches her one last time, as though establishing that they DID once have a physical relationship--and now he's taken away her very life force--really intense scene!
His goodbye kiss for her made me think about their former relationship too, but I don't think there's anything "sexy" in that scene. Actually, I thought the kiss was a pretty nasty thing for him to do, though not at all surprising since this isn't the first time we've seen Quentin use sex as a weapon.
Can't agree with you more about Selby. But then, I'm not exactly a shrinking violet about my opinion that he's SERIOUSLY underrated as an actor.
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Isn't it odd that, after their history, Judith lets Quentin take Laura to her room? Wonder if Edward knows, considering the fit he had that they were even together in the drawing room.
Oh, the scene between them is marvelous. Quentin at the top of his nasty game, relishing his payback no end. Very good drama, though oh so messed up psychologically.
Good point about his use of sex as a weapon. Thinking about where that could have originated leads me down some very dark paths of speculation, probably not intended in the script -- and which send chills down my spine. Thing is, they were stealing from the Victorian classics, with him as a combination of a number of "bad boys" with Heathcliff at the top of the list. Something I never noticed until I went from the corporate world to a not for profit agency which deals with abused children is just how many characteristics of those classic characters of Victorian literature are also signs and markers of past sexual abuse. The reckless don't give a damn behavior, the drinking and other vices, the violence and cold blooded manipulation of others, amongst other behaviors, all fit the pattern.
He likes women, but seems to keep testing them and expecting to be betrayed. Angelique and Laura show he has a powerful reaction of anger towards women who try to mess with his head and manipulate and use him (No double entendres meant, FYI). He tests Beth over and over, yet in a particular scene we see his initial reaction is still that he would be betrayed.
I'm probably not explaining this too well. The impression I get is that he learned young that sex is a weapon to use against someone, and at the time of the storyline he's partially unlearned it, but when threatened goes back to that behaviour pattern.
Jeannie
