Club Vivid and Challenge vids

[thuviaptarth]

I love these vids as much as I love all the vids I recced earlier, but I am tired and out of energy so I probably will not sound like I do. Also, the comments will be spectacularly inane. The vids are much better, I swear.

Club Vivid
dualbunny, If I Had You (Legend of the Seeker)
Poor Rahl. He is wearing eyeliner and his shiniest robes and Richard just doesn't understand.

littleheaven70, Dance across the Floor (Scrubs)
This is the dancing-est vid I saw this year. Also there are Muppets. I am adding this to my list of Happy Fun Vids.

jarrow, Lucky (21)
This is fun and a little moving and the dissolves are one of the sexiest things I've seen a while.

bradcpu, The Name of the Game (Legend of the Seeker)
I hope people will continue vidding Legend of the Seeker. I like it so much better through vids.

hollywoodgrrl, Boom Boom Pow (Fringe)
My favorite vid of the con. I could talk about the clever lyric/non-lyric matches or the beautiful flow of the editing, but mostly it is Olivia and Peter and Walter in a box. And also Olivia does sit ups and is an action hero.


Challenge vids

kiki_miserychic, twinkle, twinkle (Doctor Who)
Creepy.

sisabet and sweetestdrain, On the Prowl (Multi)
I thought I was missing the point by watching it all with a sense of recognition instead of going into a frenzy of introspection, but maybe not? Also I tend to think that violence against male characters occurs in such a different cultural and narrative context than violence against female characters that I just am unable to worry about it as presented in this and most h/c (or h/0c) fanworks.

I wasn't laughing at most of it, but the brevity of the comfort clip cracked me up. Oh, Fandom.

Comments

[vehemently]

I kept watching each clip in "On the Prowl" with a possibly-different recognition moment: Oh I hated that scene! And that one! And THAT one! OMG, this is like the OTT Haterade Olympics!!

...It is possible I am the wrong audience for the vid.

[musesfool]

Heh. Yeah, I didn't see anything of my preferences in that vid.

[rachelmanija]

I liked all the clips with men dripping wet.

[musesfool]

Well, sure, that part's nice. It's the beatings, electrocutions and torture I'm not really into. *g*

[vehemently]

There's that point somewhere, pretty far along into the vid, where suddenly there was the Single Perfect Mantear, and I just laughed crazily and hit Next on the DVD.

Also, I am pretty sure that some of the violence/self-mutilation clips are from that stupid Dan Brown movie, and the whole point is that the villain self-mutilates, because he is a crazy (uber-Catholic) villain. So I'm not sure what the point was in including all that. Like, there's "I like my people to SUFFER" and then there's random violence like splatter-horror only even less meaningful. Unless you were supposed to dig the villain in that movie? But it's a Dan Brown movie! Never before has so much agita produced so little feeling.

[musesfool]

Yes, I did laugh at the Perfect Emo Mantear. And that was the flagellation clip, right? I didn't see the movie but I did lose an hour or two of my life to the book. They probably included it because didn't Paul Bettany play him in the movie? He's fangirl catnip.

[vehemently]

Yes, that's Bettany. He looks like what would happen if Johnny Rotten were to turn Savonarola suddenly, all bad dye job (I think he's supposed to be albino, but uhhhh albino hair is not bleach blond!) and murder eyes. He's both the flagellation and the pokey dog-collar thingy around the thigh, which has a name and a history in some of the kookier sects of Catholic monkery. It's all about literal mortification of the flesh as a route to purification of the soul, circa 1350.

Which makes it vaguely blasphemous (but also distantly funny) that people appear to be getting off on it. Presumably not with their married opposite-sex partners for the sole purpose of creating children, either!

[ratcreature]

Heh. Probably.

Whereas I kept thinking that if it was a single fandom vid these kind of scenes would work really well as recruiter vid for me. And my response was wanting to know the fandoms I didn't recognize to check whether I might want to watch. But then I like a lot of hurt, and am not much interested in comfort, and enjoy character torture. Also the vid thankfully didn't do eye injury, which is pretty much the only violence/hurt I find myself squicked by. So for me there was no introspection or anything either, but I enjoyed that escalating pain the characters were put through.

[rivkat]

I have been watching Boom Boom Pow at least once a day since I first saw it. Will.i.am! The music matches! Olivia's swagger! It is all joy.

[thuviaptarth]

Peter walking forward intercut with burning buildings! Peter on the silent beat! Interstellar spaceship Observers! But Olivia's swagger most of all.

[kore]

I have never seen Fringe, and doubt maybe I will (still feel a little burned from Alias and dropped Lost after Mr Eko bought it), but I've watched that vid repeatedly. It's *fantastic.* (I didn't like the other Fringe video quite as much, but it was pretty neat.) I loved the Older Guy (Walter?) dancing.

I couldn't watch Prowl all the way through - I just found the imagery too upsetting, and the same thing happened with the Criminal Minds vid (oddly enough this didn't bother me with Women's Work, which I loved).