"The years and the hours, the seconds and minutes..."

[gnine]

So, here we are again, with another music vid (SGA again) to offer. One that ATE MY SOUL. Nomnomnomnommmm. Mmm, apparently quite tasty! Who knew? Well, other than almost every fandom I've been in…ah well.

Vid info, download links and an extensive, rambling vidder's note

Title: What is Eternal?
Song: from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
Character: Rodney…oh, OOohhh Rodney
Category: episode-related (Last Man), angst, and does Rodney McKay count as its own category?
Spoilers: Yes, yes and very much YES. All of the show, particularly "The Last Man". Will probably make very little sense if you *haven't* seen season four, so don't watch if you have yet to be shown it, this means YOU, utopiantrunks! *cough* ^_-
Size: ~56 MB
Format: .avi
Notes: Vidder's note on just what addled thoughts were passing through my brain as this vid sucked hours, days, WEEKS from my life, can be found after the download links.

Links:

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Song lyrics can be found here.

Or just watch it here:

Vidder's Notes:

So, I first got obsessed with Beethoven's Last Night several weeks before "The Last Man" aired, and at the time, I recall thinking, hmm, "What Is Eternal" could make a fun SGA vid. Maybe a Rodney piece, maybe the whole team, whatever. With no clear ideas jumping out at me, I put it on the back burner to stew for a bit. Then they gave us the season finale and it was OMG must do this vid NOW. Rodney, oh Rodney, so, SO perfect.

And thus began several weeks of semi-permanent exhaustion. Because, beyond eating my soul, this vid also devoured most of the hours I should have been doing useful things, like say, oh, SLEEPING. But, totally worth it. 'Cause…well, Rodney!

Still being kinda new to this whole vidding 'thang, I used this opportunity to test some new techniques. Like the image matte keying feature, which opens all kinds of new doors. (Coincidentally, I also discovered my computer reeealllly doesn't like having both Photoshop and Premiere open at the same time :-p) I hope what I was trying to accomplish comes through in the end…and that I didn't clutter up the video too much. :-p



As always, I'd very much like to know what people think (truthfully, with all the hours, and amount of SOUL this has eaten up, it's more like 'incredibly anxious to know" :-p), C & C is tremendously welcome!

Comments

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

So, ok, I haven't seen most of season four, so maybe this vid wasn't so much with the sense-making for me, but it was so gorgeous, and, unlike everything else in the world, it's made me want to see all of s4 that I've missed, because, oh, Rodney.

[gnine.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! So glad you enjoyed it. I'm curious, what eps of season four have you seen? Personally, I loved a LOT of the season, especially as a Rodney fan...and for me, as a McShepper, there was a lot of fun stuff! ^_^

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

I've seen early s4 to, er, *checks wiki* Doppelgänger, then I've seen Miller's Crossing (for the Jeannie!), Be All My Sins Remember'd (for the Elizabeth!) and Outcast (for the family drama). I think that's it. I really, really should see more, huh?

[gnine.livejournal.com]

As I said, personally, I really like pretty much the whole season, Travelers being the only episode I didn't really like, and even that one had one or two scenes that I enjoyed.

Kinda depends what you're watching the show for, though....ie, if you're a McShepper, then there's some GREAT scenes you're missing (parts of Quarantine, couple scenes in The Seer, Moral Coil, Harmony...really short scene in Missing but So SO cute). If you're a Rodney fan, again, missing some good stuff (Tabula Rasa, Kindred 2, Trio and of course, Last Man...Last Man being the ULTIMATE oh Rodney ep), etc.

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly a Rodney fan and a McShepper, and it's not that I deliberately didn't watch so much as I kept forgetting to download and watch the episodes during the weekend, because I was catching up with other shows.