The throne room conversation is truly an A+ miscommunication scene because both characters are trying so so so hard to communicate through painful vulnerability and are failing due to both their own internal shit and a really insane set of external circumstances. Like, of course Quentin is unable to say anything more obviously romantic than "we work"! That is the most personally revealing thing he could possibly bring himself to say! Of course Eliot can't find that enough to risk anything on! Just such good stuff, absolutely my favorite kind of communication issue













