>>It's interesting that the scene gives you the impression that he's
>>"broken", since that's not at all the effect I was aiming for. I
>>mean, yes, he's bit preoccupied in that last scene, but that's largely
>>because the sudden and unexpected encounter with the dread shadow of
>>Unicron has quite knocked his other train of thought all ahoo and he
>>needs to take a couple of moments to chase it all back into order
>>again before he can articulate it, not because he's having some kind
>>of a breakdown.
>
>I didn't take it as a breakdown, so much as G admitting how much he
>wanted Tali in his life more. I quite liked that scene actually.

I agree, I think it's a good and quite raw scene, but I still kind of hope Tali ultimately turns him down. Not because she doesn't love him, but because that's not what their relationship is anymore, and (perhaps) Gryph swinging back to pick her up might seem as if he's regressing back to Exile Gryphon, with all that that entails. Beyond that, I reckon she works better as that kind of friend, the near-miss, what-if type that was presented so well in the Correspondance shorts.