This is awesome! The Kant vs. Aquinas talk in the comment thread was a little over my head, but I think I got the gist of it.
Multiple motivators IS the defining element to the longevity of the show, the story, and the fandom. Otherwise, we'd have had them all figured out long ago and there'd be nothing to talk about. In fact, I worry about the people who refuse to see the multi-dimensioned aspects, yet are still obsessing about the show. Tilt at windmills much?
I was going to say something about how it's Spike's "evil" side that makes him such a fun character for me to obsess think about, but find I can't really argue with your "more or less noble loves" point. I think the salient point is that I can't help but use my own morality ruler when ranking those loves and find some of the less ones MUCH less than a typical all-out Spike fan. Yet, it's for precisely that reason that I find his "higher" (again, by my own ruler) loves so ennobling.
Also, I've just always had a thing for bad boys, and my libido prefers it when Spike plays naughty.
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Date: 2009-01-27 05:23 pm (UTC)Multiple motivators IS the defining element to the longevity of the show, the story, and the fandom. Otherwise, we'd have had them all figured out long ago and there'd be nothing to talk about. In fact, I worry about the people who refuse to see the multi-dimensioned aspects, yet are still obsessing about the show. Tilt at windmills much?
I was going to say something about how it's Spike's "evil" side that makes him such a fun character for me to
obsessthink about, but find I can't really argue with your "more or less noble loves" point. I think the salient point is that I can't help but use my own morality ruler when ranking those loves and find some of the less ones MUCH less than a typical all-out Spike fan. Yet, it's for precisely that reason that I find his "higher" (again, by my own ruler) loves so ennobling.Also, I've just always had a thing for bad boys, and my libido prefers it when Spike plays naughty.