[SGA vid] Welcome Home

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_{Source: Stargate Atlantis (Spoilers up to The Siege III)
Song: "The Blood of Cu Chulainn", by Mychael and Jeff Danna
Summary: Her, city}

Thanks: Much love and thanks to aurora_84, nel_ani, and sisabet for the feedback and advice, and also to lierdumoa and absolut3destiny for audiencing! =D

"Let us resolve that she shall dream dreams deeper than the sea and higher than the clouds of heaven, that she shall come forth crowned and transfigured with her statesmen and wizards and saints and sages about her, with magic behind her and miracle before her."

_{-Vachel Lindsay}

Notes: It's been awhile since I've let myself cut loose on the cutting, partially because I've been experimenting in style and effect and partially 'cause I was testing my threshold of pain/irritation with not molesting every beat. This vid felt like a sigh of relief after all that, what with the massive beat-whoring, finally getting the RAM able to handle the type of vid I've been wanting to make, and finding SGA. Which, just...::waves vaguely at old meta posts:: yeah.

Oh, and there's like huge numbers of things I tried to say about Elizabeth and Atlantis in the vid, all mixed up together, so there are a very many equally valid interpretations of the vid. Hell, I'm not even sure of all the things I put in there, but I'm very curious as to what themes or stories or impressions that those watching the vid might get, so don't be afraid to tell me what you think!

(I would recommend using VLC Player to play the vid, it's free, or you can look at this guide. Also, apparently there's a compatibility problem with playing the vid in Quicktime.)

Notes part 2: The wierd and uncomfortable feeling that occurs before the music starts? That's on purpose; it was my goal that Atlantis is creepy and uncomfortable and wrong...until the expedition came, woke it up, and let it breathe.

Notes part 3: Wow!



::bounces and glomps everyone::

Thanks to everyone who'd nominated and voted for me at the Stargate Fan Awards, it won for Weir's catagory!

Comments

[kyriacarlisle.livejournal.com]

This may not seem like a compliment, but it is, I promise: the first three times I put this on, I didn't get all the way through. You see, sequence after sequence was so fabulous that I had to keep hitting pause in order to get up and pace about for a while, grinning stupidly (or getting choked up), until I was ready to keep going.

You caught the Atlantis that I want to believe in and the Elizabeth whom I would follow. Thank you.

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Oh wow, that's an awesome compliment! thank you for letting me know! ::glomps::

Just out of curiosity, and you don't have to answer this if you don't have the time, but which three places?

[kyriacarlisle.livejournal.com]

Darn, now I have to go watch it again.

Bear in mind that I saved this and then walked away from my computer for two weeks, so my initial reaction is a bit faded. Here goes: 1.07 (the shot of Grodin near the controls), 2.16 (the woman being helped with her vest), somewhere during the cuts between the Athosians and the bomb ca. 2.26-34, and now that I rewatch, probably 3.00, too.

And, to be truthful, about five restarts of the first 20 seconds just to watch the lights come on, because that was wicked cool and sometimes (often) I am a dork.

It looks as though I jumped transitions by a few seconds every time; I think these must have been the moments when I was getting too worried about the characters to sit still for a resolution. It interests me, though, that they're all shots of civilians; I remember being upset at 2.16 that a scientist had to be fumbling for a holster at all. Possibly these were the times when I felt that the expedition was furthest beyond what it could have been expected to do? Or perhaps I can't handle dramatic tension. You choose.

That was probably more than you wanted to know - and more than I expected to write - but do please tell me if any of it doesn't make sense.

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::nods:: that makes sense! Again, thank you so much for letting me know! I'm so glad you found that it worked so well especially since I'm not quite sure how you found the vid nor that we seem to share no interests.

One of the things that shocked me most about Weir is that she's trying so much to maintain that civilian prescence in Atlantis, despite the war, and I love her for that, so I get what you're talking about with the civilians having to be armed too.

[kyriacarlisle.livejournal.com]

since I'm not quite sure how you found the vid nor that we seem to share no interests.

Oops, sorry! Luck, and browsing by astolat's journal on a whim. And, yeah, my interests list *is* pretty square, mostly on purpose; unfortunately, it does tend to confuse people.

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ahhh! okay, that makes sense. =D and yeah, for me, I keep a RL journal and a fan journal to keep it all separate.