Doctor Who Vid: let it fall

[beccatoria]

You guys, I must warn you. Never since... Never on this journal has such EPIC SINCERITY existed with such an utter lack of irony. I love everything about Eleventy and his crack-addled existence with a love that is pure and true, and apparently involves an egregious abuse of voiceovers and colour filters. I would judge myself but I cannot bring

Comments

[pellucid]

I'm having such a hard time putting how much and why I love this into words! We're so good at explaining and analyzing and metaing (hell, I've spent the better part of the past dozen years going to school to learn how to analyze stories), but I think there is, at least for a lot of us (I'd like to think all of us, but I have met people for whom this seems not to be true, and I confess they baffle me) a really fundamental reaction of being drawn to the magic and the humanness of story. Stories are real, and they're beautiful and amazing, they make us love and live, and they have to end. Whatever emotion it is that makes us stay up all night trying to get to the end of the book, yet simultaneously dread arriving there because that means the story will be over: that's the emotion that season 5 deals in, and that's the emotion that you capture in this vid. It's something childlike, perhaps: before irony, or beyond it. And like Chaila, I love me some irony and especially ambiguity, and I'm glad that stories are, on the whole, big enough and complex enough to hold irony and earnestness. But when I think of my most fundamental reaction to stories, it's this: it's this vid, it's season 5 of this show, it's reading under my covers with a flashlight at night.

[beccatoria]

Oh, dude, best comment ever. <3

I love everything you say about the emotion of stories and agree completely. I want to write you a paragraph as insightful and brilliant as the one you wrote my but I have nothing but flail and love for you. I'm sincerely touched that you think the vid works and that you loved it.

And I think maybe you're right - this vid is like my glee at there being a story I want to meta and invert and talk about and pull apart and put back together. This is my glee at wanting to write thousands of words of ironic, overly self-aware meta, not the meta itself. <3