Did he give anyone else massive Prince Rilian of Narnia vibes when Sam and Celia visited him? He was so cheerful and totally fine with not really being able to remember anything.
Look - They both wear black. They both live with older women who do the talking for them. They're both unnaturally cheerful. They both love to offer their guests food and drink relentlessly. And they both tell people that the clues they're following are a dead end.
Gerry: There’s some fresh sourdough rolls, if you want a bite?
SAM; No thank you!
GERRY: (calling) You sure? Homemade lemon curd to go with it
…Tea? Coffee? Orange juice?
Rilian: Honest Frog-foot, your cup is empty. Suffer me to refill it.
...Sir, be pleased to take another breast of pigeon, I entreat you.
...Little lady, eat one of these honey cakes, which are brought for me from some barbarous land in the far south of the world.
GERTRUDE: Well I’m sorry, but I don’t think Gerry can help you-
GERRY: Yeah I barely remember any of it.
Rilian: You must understand, friends, that I know nothing of who I was and whence I came into this Dark World. I remember no time when I was not dwelling, as now, at the court of this all but heavenly Queen.
GERRY: I remember filling in a bunch of forms and questionnaires then some old men asking me questions about what books I liked to read, who did I look up to, that kind of thing. Then I left.
SAM: (Disappointed) That’s all?
GERRY: Yea, afraid so. Other than just sitting around with a bunch of other kids in a room that smelled like old books.
Beat. SAM is clearly dejected.
"We had been told to look for a message on the stones of the City Ruinous," said Scrubb. "And we saw the words UNDER ME."
The Knight laughed even more heartily than before. "You were the more deceived," he said. "Those words meant nothing to your purpose. Had you but asked my Lady, she could have given you better counsel. For those words are all that is left of a longer script, which in ancient times, as she well remembers, expressed this verse:
Though under Earth and throneless now I be,
Yet, while I lived, all Earth was under me.
...Is it not the merriest jest in the world that you should have thought they were written to you?"
This was like cold water down the back to Scrubb and Jill.; for it seemed to them very likely that the words had nothing to do with their quest at all.
Anyway, Prince Rilian tied up squirming and begging in the Silver Chair has always been formative for me, so here he is just because.
(Would love to see Gerry in this situation, just saying.)
