Dragons!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons:_A_Fantasy_Made_Real
I'm watching this "documentary" on the Animal Planet channel for the fourth time or so, and they're near the end, where the starving mother mountain dragon comes back to the mountain cave, and finds her daughter killed by the medieval humans (who think the dragons are evil). As she is grieving over the body, the lord and squire come back to bother her again, so she kills the squire. But the lord escapes and runs back to the village and much later comes back with an angry posse of humans. The dragon can't find another mate, can't lay another egg, can't find food, becomes disabled and trapped in her cave, and the humans find her too weak to fight, unable to make fire in her belly. And they kill her, just like that, not understanding that all she was trying to do was get food for her offspring and protect herself. She just wanted to survive.
And, of course, I'm crying. Because I do that. Because I'm such a sucker for that sort of thing. I'm crying for a fictional documentary of a fictional history and fictional story of dragons that might have been real, but we'll never know.
But I believe. I have always believed.
Also: Patrick Stewart has the sexiest narrator voice ever. Shivers down my spine.
If you can find it or download it, watch this program. It's awesome.
(Also, the scene with the two dragons courting in the sky, locking talons in a spiraling freefall? Yeah, Adam and I do that in our mutual meditations. In our psychic places, we become dragons.)
I'm watching this "documentary" on the Animal Planet channel for the fourth time or so, and they're near the end, where the starving mother mountain dragon comes back to the mountain cave, and finds her daughter killed by the medieval humans (who think the dragons are evil). As she is grieving over the body, the lord and squire come back to bother her again, so she kills the squire. But the lord escapes and runs back to the village and much later comes back with an angry posse of humans. The dragon can't find another mate, can't lay another egg, can't find food, becomes disabled and trapped in her cave, and the humans find her too weak to fight, unable to make fire in her belly. And they kill her, just like that, not understanding that all she was trying to do was get food for her offspring and protect herself. She just wanted to survive.
And, of course, I'm crying. Because I do that. Because I'm such a sucker for that sort of thing. I'm crying for a fictional documentary of a fictional history and fictional story of dragons that might have been real, but we'll never know.
But I believe. I have always believed.
Also: Patrick Stewart has the sexiest narrator voice ever. Shivers down my spine.
If you can find it or download it, watch this program. It's awesome.
(Also, the scene with the two dragons courting in the sky, locking talons in a spiraling freefall? Yeah, Adam and I do that in our mutual meditations. In our psychic places, we become dragons.)