Being a woman, I’d like to know……
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Originally posted by Reveal7:
[b]Is there a difference between not available and dead? According to Stan, Kai is dead, alive. So that makes Prince alive, dead? Don’t really see the difference. So, then are there just as many women out there attracted to Prince? After all, he’s really not available. [/b]
The difference here is that Kai is, to lapse into horror movie terminology, a zombie. He’s a physical shell with remembrances of his past, but without much in the way of emotional motivation. The denizens of Fire and Water, however, have all of their desires intact, not being reanimated corpses, but “reborns” that actually have emotions, drives and what have you. Taking Water as Heaven, it wouldn’t do to have a rewarding afterlife where one’s own loves and desires wouldn’t exist — how would they be rewarded for leading a “good” life? The reverse applies to Fire: how can you punish someone that has no emotion to react to the punishment? It just wouldn’t work. Suffering only exists when one’s emotions and desires are present and able to be frustrated. Prince, being Prince, is a whole ‘nother thing altogether. In the theology of LEXX (if such a thing can be said to exist), he represents Satan, who has never been known to be at a loss for lust, as it were.
–Aleck