Okay, this will make no sense to anyone but me, but I see an interesting polarity in your reaction -- which I think I understand -- and the idea of the Lord King Bad Vid. My interpretation of "not fannish" is something like "making choices that are not in some way contingent on an unusual level of investment in what a particular text does for you." This can produce vids of amazing technical merit and storytelling power, but they can feel -- cold, in comparison to the vids that sucked me into the world of vidding. They're not bad, they're just different, and for me the difference reads as emotional temperature. But then on the other hand we have LKBV, which is about half admitting your overinvestment and half disavowing it.

It may just be that vidding is achieving new types of diversity in relations to the source text as well as technical backgrounds. I don't have much of a theory here, just wanted to agree. And as a big fan of LoM -- I think you might like it, in part because it does such a good job of showing rather than telling in the early episodes -- I didn't find "There is too much light in this bar" all that fannish, because the song story is so different than the show story. It was really, really funny, with great choices and it created resonances with the show, but in a way that made the vid fun rather than in a way that led me to think of the show differently. Maybe that's what I mean by fannish?