Did Jonathan Still Love Lucy

Well, I suppose he wouldn't have gone after if he didn't love her, but I never have believed that Jonathan did love her in the first place. I saw no evidence of it. He had no respect for her. It seemed to me that all Jonathan wanted was someone to suck face with. The way he treated her was more like property than a mature emotional relationship. He was fast to get jealous and overly possessive.

Do you think he still loved her? Or did he ever actually love her?

I didn't see any other women other than the crazies, the locals, and Mina...so I think Lucy was the best choice for Harker. I don't think that he loved her in the first place personally...after Dracula though, I doubt that he would love her because she had been "spoiled" by a vampire.

I don't think so. The two actors do a good job conveying this with subtle but noticeable body language: Lucy reaches up for Jonathan's arm as Dracula is dying above them, and he shrugs her off and almost shudders. For a man who risked his life to save her just moments earlier, I think the reaction is very telling and isn't just the result of exhaustion after their struggle (and, if Dracula had gotten his full rest, Jonathan would have gotten the Renfield neck twist, making such musings a moot point). I think Jonathan realizes she has been defiled by Dracula and as such can never be truly his again. It also makes Lucy's subtle smile at the end as the cape flutters away make more sense.

And, like a lot of others, I'm not sure he actually loved her anyway. Though Lucy makes quite a statement about a woman's role in the changing society of the '20s--"we are not chattel!"--it's somewhat ironic that Jonathan treats her as such and she just seems content to let him...until Dracula arrives and upsets the whole relationship dynamic. The conversation after Mina's funeral, when Jonathan is trying to persuade her to go to London with him (so that she will be unable to accept Dracula's dinner invitation) is very telling: He wants her to go so she will be able to "laugh" and "be happy", Lucy's insistence that she doesn't want to be happy right now, Jonathan's determination to return as soon as his business in London is done (again, so that he can cut off any relationship with Dracula at its roots by returning to monopolize her), Lucy's rebuff ("You needn't bother, I can manage") followed by Jonathan's challenging reply ("Can you?")...this is not a couple who are in love. This is a couple who were perhaps engaged out of convenience (Lucy herself wants to be a solicitor), or who let a "crush" turn into a relationship only to realize too late that at least one of them has already moved on.

I think what he felt for her passed as love, in those days anyway. Hey, we get along all right, you're a hard worker, respectable, have a good reputation, and you're reasonably attractive. I guess you'll do.
(Actually, I know people who feel that way, today.)

I think Jonathan really did love Lucy. Remember when she was in the cell, he said basically that he would die for her and was willing to be in her arms as they kissed. By pulling away from her, he was awed in what was happening to Dracula as he was exposed to the sun which was something that he had not seen for 400 years. I would have wanted to see what was happening to Dracula as he was exposed. Weren't you? Also, since at the time that this was going on (1897), men and women were more proper during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Yes. He never stopped loving her, that's why he went after her. He knows she was under Dracula's spell. Dracula even bragged to him how he has had many brides over the centuries. Lucy was just the latest victim. Jonathan had to save her.