New vid! "Masters of War (Pegasus Rising Remix)," SGA Vividcon premiere

[bironic]

Title: Masters of War (Pegasus Rising Remix)
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Ensemble Atlantis team; members of many Pegasus Galaxy cultures
Rating: PG-13
Length: 4:02
Music: "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan (edited)
Summary: The Atlanteans came, they explored, they destroyed lives and families and whole civilizations. The people of Pegasus

Comments

[mecurtin]

Thank you for putting this argument into vid form. I think it's coming across as very intense for two reasons:

- picture, worth a thousand words

- music intensifies emotions

- the song is about and embedded in a real war

- fanvids are bouillon cubes. By which I mean: every clip in a vid references or evokes a whole scene or even episode. So, if you know the source, watching a vid with 100 clips is like seeing or at least thinking about 100 scenes. Yet it's all packed into 3 minutes, so it's like getting this jolt of condensed emotion, POW!

I see no indication that TPTB were ever self-aware enough to realize what they were showing. In my mind, the only reasonable way to end that trial episode was with sheafrotherdon's No Light and Transient Cause.

[bironic]

Thank you - it's an honor to have this vid put up alongside Cate's work ETA because that's not exactly what you were doing on closer re-read! I agree that Cate's story is an excellent fix for that episode. /ETA And I think you're right about some of those reasons the vid ended up affecting people so powerfully. I especially like the way you phrased the multi-layered nature of vids; it really is (or can be, anyway) compact, concentrated. (I also hope in general that people haven't found offensive the use of an angry song like this about a RL situation to illustrate a fannish/fictional point.)