Currently reading: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
for when it’s gone, you’ll know the loneliness
the heartbreak only the lonely know
I’ll sleep in your embrace at last
The dragons have always been something highly, highly important to him, because he constantly refers to them as kin, as a connection. In a way, he goes back to the dragon because there’s no one else that he has that connection with. They are people of magic, creatures of magic. And regardless of that, I think there’s a lot of loneliness in Merlin. The dragon’s no longer what he was, he’s no longer, [he’s] the source of advice Merlin is kinda now going to, because… who else is he going to? [x]
“It broke me up, their performance. The reality of the way they played that sequence was absolutely extraordinary. You can see they almost look at each other but they’re only looking at empty spaces and it seems extraordinary but I think they played that absolutely truthfully. It’s a brilliant piece of work.” - Graeme Harper (Episode Director of Doctor Who Series 2: Doomsday)
