More SGA ramble
Aug. 13th, 2005 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lierdumoaSo I'm still thinking about my vidbunny from yesterday. I went on and on about it to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seperis last night, who then told me I had to make it immediately. It's simpler than my other upcoming vidbunnies, so I might slip it in sometime soon. Well, maybe simpler is the wrong word. It is more complete in my head, therefore it will be easier for me to make than the vids that aren't coming together as easily, mentally.
See, I love SGA. SGA is probably the only fandom I've been in where I enjoyed the ensemble gen fic as much as the relationship centered fic. I find in most fandoms I get bored with ensemble fic because I really only care about what's happening with maybe three out of the seven characters. Not so in SGA. I find that I am genuinely fascinated by all of the characters in this show, which is rather statistically improbable for me come to think of it. I mean, I usually have favorites. In this show I just love the group dynamic more than anything else.
Actually, SGA reminds me a little of One Piece, which I love for similar reasons, where again I find myself wanting to make an ensemble vid. Because omg they love each other so much! I love created family themes in shows. Maybe I'm projecting here because I think of fandom as a surrogate family.
My One Piece song is "Brand New Colony" by Postal Service, which is a really shmoopy love song. "If I Wrote You" by Dar Williams is also a love song, but a sad one. Well, I'm not exaclty the best at interpreting lyrics, but to me it seems the song is about loving someone and having loved that person and known him for a long time, but not being able to tell him, knowing that doing so would be the end of the relationship. My vid won't be about the exact same story as the song I'm vidding it to, but I am using that theme of heartbreak -- my vid is about losing people, about the whole "winning, but at what cost?" theme.
And when the spring came and flooded all the streams
It's like how you got the night you told me all you dreams
And when the barn roof sagged after an icy bout
It's like how you shrugged when you knew the truth was the only way out
But not the only way
I'm seeing Atlantis rising out of the water, and that look on Rodney's face when John activated the chair for the first time, and John's first suicide mission to save Colonel Sumner.
We drew our arms around the bastard sons
We never would drink to the chosen ones
Well you know the way I left was not the way I planned
But I thought the world needed love and a steady hand
so I'm steady now
This verse is all about Weir and Teyla and what it is to be a leader. I'm seeing "38 Minutes" and John and Rodney arguing like bratty kids and Teyla staring them down with her "shame on you" face and Weir and her speeches in "The Seige" and Teyla leaving her people behind on the mainland and Weir leaving her fiance behind on earth and burying herself in paperwork when she returns to Atlantis without him.
Still not exactly sure what I'm doing with the first verse. The choruses are, of course, all about "Letters from Pegasus."
And if I wrote You
If I wrote You
You would know me
and you would not write me again
The episode in which people were sending messages home, a lot of which were essentially goodbyes -- the whole idea of grasping for something familiar while the world is crumbling all around you. And, well, that's not exactly the message the lyrics are conveying, but I think I can swing it. Video editing is all about what you can get away with.
I <3 this fandom.
seperis last night, who then told me I had to make it immediately. It's simpler than my other upcoming vidbunnies, so I might slip it in sometime soon. Well, maybe simpler is the wrong word. It is more complete in my head, therefore it will be easier for me to make than the vids that aren't coming together as easily, mentally.See, I love SGA. SGA is probably the only fandom I've been in where I enjoyed the ensemble gen fic as much as the relationship centered fic. I find in most fandoms I get bored with ensemble fic because I really only care about what's happening with maybe three out of the seven characters. Not so in SGA. I find that I am genuinely fascinated by all of the characters in this show, which is rather statistically improbable for me come to think of it. I mean, I usually have favorites. In this show I just love the group dynamic more than anything else.
Actually, SGA reminds me a little of One Piece, which I love for similar reasons, where again I find myself wanting to make an ensemble vid. Because omg they love each other so much! I love created family themes in shows. Maybe I'm projecting here because I think of fandom as a surrogate family.
My One Piece song is "Brand New Colony" by Postal Service, which is a really shmoopy love song. "If I Wrote You" by Dar Williams is also a love song, but a sad one. Well, I'm not exaclty the best at interpreting lyrics, but to me it seems the song is about loving someone and having loved that person and known him for a long time, but not being able to tell him, knowing that doing so would be the end of the relationship. My vid won't be about the exact same story as the song I'm vidding it to, but I am using that theme of heartbreak -- my vid is about losing people, about the whole "winning, but at what cost?" theme.
And when the spring came and flooded all the streams
It's like how you got the night you told me all you dreams
And when the barn roof sagged after an icy bout
It's like how you shrugged when you knew the truth was the only way out
But not the only way
I'm seeing Atlantis rising out of the water, and that look on Rodney's face when John activated the chair for the first time, and John's first suicide mission to save Colonel Sumner.
We drew our arms around the bastard sons
We never would drink to the chosen ones
Well you know the way I left was not the way I planned
But I thought the world needed love and a steady hand
so I'm steady now
This verse is all about Weir and Teyla and what it is to be a leader. I'm seeing "38 Minutes" and John and Rodney arguing like bratty kids and Teyla staring them down with her "shame on you" face and Weir and her speeches in "The Seige" and Teyla leaving her people behind on the mainland and Weir leaving her fiance behind on earth and burying herself in paperwork when she returns to Atlantis without him.
Still not exactly sure what I'm doing with the first verse. The choruses are, of course, all about "Letters from Pegasus."
And if I wrote You
If I wrote You
You would know me
and you would not write me again
The episode in which people were sending messages home, a lot of which were essentially goodbyes -- the whole idea of grasping for something familiar while the world is crumbling all around you. And, well, that's not exactly the message the lyrics are conveying, but I think I can swing it. Video editing is all about what you can get away with.
I <3 this fandom.
