"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:

Youtube
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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

[epicycles.livejournal.com]

Holy Toledo! That was *awesome*! The song took me a bit by surprise -- I was expecting an instrumental -- but it fit, it just FIT, so perfectly, to everything Rodney been through and seen and done and *loses coherence*. What I mean is, I loved it! Favorite bits: Miller's Crossing to "traded his soul", his team as the scale he's weighed against, the montage at the end, and oh, oh the Ode to Joy!

So what I mean is: thanks. *goes to watch again (for third time)*

[gnine.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, I was surprised when I first heard about Beethoven's Last Night because all my previous experience with Trans-Siberian Orchestra was instrumental, but the whole musical is worth a listen!

Hehehehe, the amounts of times of watched that scene from Miller's Crossing...I just had to get it in there, cause um, yeah, truly John is TRADING HIS SOUL FOR RODNEY!! It just doesn't get better than that! ^_-

So glad you liked it. Also, just gotta say, your icon made me smile, mmm, d20, now that brings back happy memories ^_^

[epicycles.livejournal.com]

I'll have to track down that album -- all I knew of TSO was instrumental, but I can't resist musicals!

Hee, I did my share of flailing over Miller's Crossing. There's dying for the team, there's giving your whole life (like Rodney), then there's giving up your very humanity. Oh, John.

However, I find your blinky-John icon deeply unnerving. :) And yeah, d20 = old school geek! I actually just started my first D&D campaign recently (finally!) and I'm loving it!

[gnine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm a major sucker for musicals as well, and a TSO musical for the WIN, believe me! ^_^

Hehehe, it is a bit unnerving...but John is just so HOT...and creepy, and smexy and yeah...Okay, so I might just have a bit of a thing for dark!Sheppard ^_-

And D&D, aaahh, that brings back such happy memories. I had a regular group that met weekly all thru high school, and then played a bit when I did study abroad, but haven't played at all since college, miss it terribly!

[epicycles.livejournal.com]

Doesn't everybody have a thing for dark!Sheppard? ;) That was the weirdest part of Doppelganger, that evil!John was so much hotter despite being exactly the same person.

Weirdly, I used to watch my brother play D&D all the time, but I never played myself. A bunch of my friends had a fit of nostalgia for their own high school campaigns and started up a game for old time's sake. Me and a couple of other newbies have now been sucked in, perpetuating the endless cycle of geekdom. :)