(August 20, 2016 at 11:38 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: This free will thread isn't phenomenologically sexy enough.
Where's Gem when ya need her?
How about we try the existential approach. Absurdism. Joss Whedon made no secret about the fact that his absurdist philosophy informed his writing, and there's an episode of Buffy that I think illustrates this well. Episode 9 of season 6--"Smashed."
Tension has been building up between Buffy and Spike throughout the season. Then Spike finds out the chip in his head doesn't protect Buffy from him.
They both slug it out in a wild, thrilling assault on one another's preternaturally strong bodies, until the smoldering heat between erupts into raw sexual passion. No less violent, their love-making takes them from room to room, smashing the very building apart, until the roof collapses on them.
Rather like two participants in an argument over free will, who careen from thread to thread, ravishing one another with their philosophical disquisitions, until the forum comes crashing down on their heads in a climax of phenomenological sexiness.
Yeah...kinda like that. I'm sure there's some existential themes in there somewhere.
A Gemma is forever.
