I Crossed Over to the Dark Side...

[sisabet]

Or How I learned to download the wildfeed and watch it early. I was supposed to go to bed, but the episode beckoned. No spoilers - not from me... but we are finally in hiatus and now I can finish Closer. Funny that hiatus is a relief for me. I think I just need time to process everything... AtS, BtVS, oh my. It is just too much.

Speaking of finished vids - cool new crop coming up. Cappy vidded Spike/Dawn to White Wedding and it is up on the video page at Headtilt. Dawn is fairly skeeved by the pairing - I think this vid is kinda sweet. From what I gather, Spike knows that Dawn has this hero-worship crush on him, but he doesn't pay her much notice. Things happen and he goes away and now Dawn is angry and moving past him and her childish crush. Spike comes back and is hurt when Dawn no longer cares about him. Then he realizes she has grown up and it is too late for him so he turns to alcohol. At this point I sorta lose the narrative flow of the vid - and Cappy hasn't explained it to me yet.

heres_luck made an incredible Faith/Buffy vid, Come On, it is at paper cup -- Go forth and reap the Faithy goodness. Also - it is deep. I promise. Check out the fight scenes - check out the flow - see how she does that? Buffy swings in one episode and Faith ducks in the next frame but it is a different fight, different season - Did you catch that? Cause that is freakin' cool. She makes all of the fights one big fight and it ties in thematically with the vid (you'll see). Told you it was deep. I didn't even touch the hand imagery. I leave that for you to decipher.

myrtleneunice have finished their second season 2 vid. This will really, really depress you - but in that good cathartic way. Go and download Fragile at Myrtle & Eunice Productions. And then cry. When you are ready we can discuss the larger import - the presence that hangs over the vid, and is yet unseen. Very, very effective technique - you see the wrecked lives and the fallout from the unending pain of season 2 BtVS. Ah, pain...how I love thee...

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[just-eunice.livejournal.com]

Eunice here, and I'm going to try to be all literary and stuff...so be very afraid.

I don't think there is a conflict between what either bonibaru or Myrtle is saying. The way I see this vid (except for the circular imagery which I missed, because I'm a dunce), and have through the whole process...both interpretations are correct, and in fact rely on each other.

It is Buffy and her shadow that is the common tie between the pain of all the Scoobies. All the relationships that started, ended, or never got a chance to begin in the first place can be directly related to her. The angst and pain, both physical and emotional, of the season that each of these characters go through is an inadvertent result of loving Buffy, of championing her cause. That wasn't a slam against Buffy, by the way, it's not exactly like she has a choice in the matter.

And what is uppermost in overshadowing Buffy's life in season 2...is Angel/Angelus. Her pain, her confusion, her decisions...all of which are the pebble in the pond that ripples out to everyone around her. Jenny/Giles, Willow/Xander, Xander/Cordelia, Willow/Oz...and all of them seperately are tied through the common thread of the gathering storm of Buffy's life that year. We deliberately chose not to show Angel's face in the vid (leading to the three hour clip manipulation to obscure him in one shot)...just a hand, a profile, a glimpse, and to elude to him through the orb and the fallout of certain scenes. The reason for this was to try and create the invisible presence, the "elephant in the room". Buffy ties the Scoobies together...but what caused her such immense pain that it would conflict her loyalties and destroy them...even inadvertantly.

So I get what you're saying bonibaru...and I agree with what you saw. And I also see what we saw. And I'm done now. I'll go back to staring at shiny things and waiting for other people to be brilliant.

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I'm all tired and dumb tonight but I love it when we talk vids. I love it that there are vids that we can discuss. Sigh.