much squee...

[ratcreature]

First, since thefourthvine was encouraging vid recs recently, I'd like to point out that lim's vid for the sga_flashfic mission report challenge is great. It's the first time I've seen a vid where someone wrote a song telling the story and then sung it illustrated by a vid. Admittedly I haven't watched that many vids, so this could be totally common, but even then it would still be awesome. I just really like vids where the narrative isn't that opaque, I guess.

Also take a look at brown_betty's DC comics vid You Gotta Have Boobs, which is hilarious.

Then there was this week's SGA episode which made me squee a lot as well. Just-- John! *hearts*

First there's the bonding with the Wraith and their temporary truce, and the Wraith actually protects John. And then the Wraith declares John his brother! And they both honor their deal, and John drops him off on a planet with darts... so much squee.

I like that the Wraith are steadily getting kind of more sympathetic and complex, to the viewers and also to the Atlanteans, but still no real options are there for coexistence or negotiation, seeing how Wraith have to eat humans. (I don't really consider the mad scientist retrovirus an option for the Wraith from their perspective, even if it really worked. I mean, who'd trade many thousands of years of life for a few measly decades?)

Also the Wraith worshiping makes a lot more sense now if they prolong the life of their collaborators and share in some little way what they take from the other humans.

I do wonder though why that Wraith hasn't called the others telepathically. Maybe he was too far away for him alone to reach any or too weakened, but still it has to be really bad luck on his part (or great planning by the Genii) that he's held captive in some area of the galaxy where for years no Wraith came into his telepathic range.

And I liked the symmetry of how here John doesn't give the Wraith a mocking name as with "Steve", whereas the Wraith acknowledges John with his name, even though he still feeds from him.

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[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I - how did I miss that brown_betty had made a comics vid? I must go download that immediately.

(And, no, I haven't seen a lot of someone telling a story in song form and then vidding it. Like, not any. But have you seen I Put You There, by laurashapiro and lithium_doll? It's - well, it's a vid about fandom to a song about fandom. It's not like lim's vid in pretty much any other way, but that's the closest I can come.)

[ratcreature]

I have seen that recced a lot, iirc, but I haven't watched, I think it was on some password protected site? And I'm one of those people who don't download if they have to mail for a password.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Oh. Bummer. Because it's really and truly fabulous - as they say in the summary, it's the kind of love every fangirl knows. (And it's also half original drawings and animation by the wonderful Lithium Doll). But right now it's only on Laura's site, which is indeed password-protected.

I don't suppose I have any chance of persuading you to email for it? (Although, seriously, if there's a chance, let me know, because I will happily persuade until the cows come home. Or until the cows send off for passwords, even.)

Hmmm. Well, I will ponder, and perhaps I'll think of an unprotected vid that Lim's vid reminds me of. (Although I warn you the connection may be even more tenuous if I do manage to.)

[ratcreature]

Heh, you know, it turns out I actually had mailed for that password way back in 2003 and just found it buried in my password folder and it hasn't changed. I just had forgotten that I had it already. Back then I still bothered with the hassle of an extra step, because vid sites in general were less open. Just these days there are so many vids that you can get easier that I don't anymore as I don't watch a lot in the first place. But I'll check this one out.