Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. I am a happy woman.
and of course then we get to the memory-wipe. and. God. That is the most marvelously done bit of work that I think I've ever seen, and it's not like you stuck with a formula, which made it stronger. Like it seems like every bit of it was unique, from how it was specifically set to beat (syncopated or not, on the beat or through the beat) and the varying scenes of Clark and how marvelously you've cut and blended and rendered this who entire sequence is shatteringly shockingly amazing, especially with how the images, for all their diversity, STILL managed to maintain the thread of feeling and still managed to be consistent and consistently amazing (and I really love how the 'shooting at Clark' bit was fuzzy like a lost rememberance, and how you've layered the "Lex hitting" bits).
Aw gee - thank you so much. Actually, the entire mind wipe was extememly formulaic - to me. I was following a very specific path of how the memories would be lost and how it is affecting the inner Lex at each part. But this was really just me - a way to keep myself on track and to make certain the brain wipe made visual sense on any level. I did try to keep a lot of the timing inconsistant - but that was just a happy accident - when I was going back and retiming clips in then vid, I liked how differing where the cuts come and if the clip will cut on the beat or if the internal motion will hit on that beat kinda keep you off-guard. I wanted this sequence to be very jarring.
I'm guessing at the themes because I haven't personally seen the episodes, but...Are you doing the argument that Clark could save Lex? Because what with Lionel disapproving and trying to Lex's affections and the memorywipe and without Clark...the 'future' will come to pass?
I think the future is inevitable with these guys - in many ways they live in a state of pre-determined destiny and I think the show is strongest when it plays up that theme. Even so, I think Lex believes that Clark *could* save him, redeem him and possibly enable Lex to resist the corruption of his father. I think if Lex had been allowed to keep the knowledge he gained in "Shattered" then the future would have been changed - he *worshipped* Clark once he learned the truth. Of course, he wasn't allowed that and I think that this was the first serious, significant step the show has taken toward moving the boys toward the inevitable rift. It is coming. There is now escaping it.
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Re: review (part 1 of 2)
Date: 2004-01-31 08:22 pm (UTC)Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. I am a happy woman.
and of course then we get to the memory-wipe. and. God. That is the most marvelously done bit of work that I think I've ever seen, and it's not like you stuck with a formula, which made it stronger. Like it seems like every bit of it was unique, from how it was specifically set to beat (syncopated or not, on the beat or through the beat) and the varying scenes of Clark and how marvelously you've cut and blended and rendered this who entire sequence is shatteringly shockingly amazing, especially with how the images, for all their diversity, STILL managed to maintain the thread of feeling and still managed to be consistent and consistently amazing (and I really love how the 'shooting at Clark' bit was fuzzy like a lost rememberance, and how you've layered the "Lex hitting" bits).
Aw gee - thank you so much. Actually, the entire mind wipe was extememly formulaic - to me. I was following a very specific path of how the memories would be lost and how it is affecting the inner Lex at each part. But this was really just me - a way to keep myself on track and to make certain the brain wipe made visual sense on any level. I did try to keep a lot of the timing inconsistant - but that was just a happy accident - when I was going back and retiming clips in then vid, I liked how differing where the cuts come and if the clip will cut on the beat or if the internal motion will hit on that beat kinda keep you off-guard. I wanted this sequence to be very jarring.
I'm guessing at the themes because I haven't personally seen the episodes, but...Are you doing the argument that Clark could save Lex? Because what with Lionel disapproving and trying to Lex's affections and the memorywipe and without Clark...the 'future' will come to pass?
I think the future is inevitable with these guys - in many ways they live in a state of pre-determined destiny and I think the show is strongest when it plays up that theme. Even so, I think Lex believes that Clark *could* save him, redeem him and possibly enable Lex to resist the corruption of his father. I think if Lex had been allowed to keep the knowledge he gained in "Shattered" then the future would have been changed - he *worshipped* Clark once he learned the truth. Of course, he wasn't allowed that and I think that this was the first serious, significant step the show has taken toward moving the boys toward the inevitable rift. It is coming. There is now escaping it.