#270: Merlin explain

[Cueball and Megan standing by a train on a platform.]

Megan: I’m bad at goodbyes. At some level I never think they’re for real.

Cueball: They make me think of T. H. White’s Merlin.

[They are still standing at the edge of the platform, but the train is no longer in the frame.]

Megan: Oh?

Cueball: He lived backwards, remembering the future and not the past. To him, final goodbyes meant nothing, while first hellos were tearful and bittersweet.

[Zooming out, the rail closest to the platform becomes visible.]

Megan: Huh - so over the years he’d forget all his friends.

Megan: Must’ve been lonely.

Cueball: Yeah. He ended up just sitting around at home watching DVDs all day. The best was the time he rented ‘Memento’…

[Merlin with pointy hat and long white beard is sitting in a couch with the remote, watching TV which emits light and is clearly hooked up to a device (a DVD player).]

Merlin: Well, that was straightforward.