I don't even watch GoT and I LOVE this. It's so well done. It almost makes me want to watch the show so I could get all the subtleties you've packed this with.
Sometimes I need people's notes and comments to help me understand vids! I came by to see if anyone was talking about whether this vid is on a meta level about the escalating violence on the show, the media's fixation on it, and the audience's arguable demand for it (in addition to, as I think you're pointing out with clips like Brienne with the bear, the characters' own saturation in ultraviolent entertainment). Y/N?
But separate from that, I am finding it intriguing to watch this multiple times (first two times was with people, it was hard to concentrate) and pick out more of what's going on. I'm not sure I know the show deeply enough to grasp half of what you've done, but at least the posting of the lyrics helps, ha, because I never took the time to read what Kurt Cobain was mumbling all these years. My problem, not yours! :)
I know what you mean. I definitely used to write excessive notes to go with my vids (and there was vid_commentary to get super meta-y) and I love reading them when others do it. But this year it just got away from me. I didn't have time to prep my posts before the con and then afterwards YOU MUST POST IMMEDIATELY. But at the same time, I think I've reached the point with vidding where I'm ok with just releasing them and letting the work speak for itself and become whatever the audience wants it to be. For instance, your dissection of the vid as the escalating violence on the show, the media's fixation on it, and the audience's arguable demand for it (in addition to, as I think you're pointing out with clips like Brienne with the bear, the characters' own saturation in ultraviolent entertainment) is brilliant and waaay deeper than my intentions for this vid. I love it! Please feel free to still look at it this way
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So I just finally finished catching up on season 3, so I can watch these new vids of yours! Yay!
- I will never, ever get tired of those intense black and white-ish close-up shots of the various characters on the Iron Throne from that one trailer. Using it in the beginning like that felt like a great opener to set things off, partially because we've seen them so many times before
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Thanks so much, man! So glad you caught up with the show. S3 was A-MAH-ZING.
I really love how for the first two verses you paired a set of families that we normally wouldn't think to make an association between. Like for the Baratheon/Targaryen verse: it becomes a story of two men who end up being usurped during their own bid for power by these women with magical strengths. (I also, personally, really liked that you used Viserys as a character focus, just because post S1 everyone has more or less forgotten him, it seems!) And then with the Lannisters and Greyjoys, it becomes about effed-up parent-child and sibling relationships.Yay! The Stannis/Daenerys/Melisandre comparison I think is entwined in the text. Mels believes Stannis to be this hero reborn with his "flaming sword. " She' basically making him fit a certain prophecy, but probably the prophecy refers to Dany with the dragons being her flaming sword. But the parallel goes much deeper than that. The kinslaying/fratricide that is so built into both Dany and Stannis' stories
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But separate from that, I am finding it intriguing to watch this multiple times (first two times was with people, it was hard to concentrate) and pick out more of what's going on. I'm not sure I know the show deeply enough to grasp half of what you've done, but at least the posting of the lyrics helps, ha, because I never took the time to read what Kurt Cobain was mumbling all these years. My problem, not yours! :)
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- I will never, ever get tired of those intense black and white-ish close-up shots of the various characters on the Iron Throne from that one trailer. Using it in the beginning like that felt like a great opener to set things off, partially because we've seen them so many times before ( ... )
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I really love how for the first two verses you paired a set of families that we normally wouldn't think to make an association between. Like for the Baratheon/Targaryen verse: it becomes a story of two men who end up being usurped during their own bid for power by these women with magical strengths. (I also, personally, really liked that you used Viserys as a character focus, just because post S1 everyone has more or less forgotten him, it seems!) And then with the Lannisters and Greyjoys, it becomes about effed-up parent-child and sibling relationships.Yay! The Stannis/Daenerys/Melisandre comparison I think is entwined in the text. Mels believes Stannis to be this hero reborn with his "flaming sword. " She' basically making him fit a certain prophecy, but probably the prophecy refers to Dany with the dragons being her flaming sword. But the parallel goes much deeper than that. The kinslaying/fratricide that is so built into both Dany and Stannis' stories ( ... )
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