dS vid: Fallen Leaves

[keerawa]

Fandom, Character: due South, Fraser
Summary: Maybe one man can't save them all, but that won't stop Fraser from trying.
Song: "Fallen Leaves" by Billy Talent
Rated: PG
Thanks to: My beta, annieb1955 for helping me get this posted in 2007.
Feedback: Pretty please? Any and all feedback will be welcomed with heartfelt cries of joy, including concrit.

Comments

In short: yay, vid!

[aethel]

Having watched this vid several times before reading the comments on this post, I feel like I'm sneaking a look at the answer key. One of the things I like about the vid is that I wasn't entirely sure what it was saying, so it still kept my interest through repeat viewings. I immediately loved the song choice (which I'd never heard before) and the focus on minor Chicago characters. Underused clips--what a relief! What I really like is the implication that although Fraser appears to be a bright light amid all the dingy "fallen leaves," he himself is also a fallen leaf. The fact that he chooses to be in this environment suggests to me that the environment is somehow a reflection of himself. But I've been spending a lot of my free time puzzling over Fraser's rather inscrutable motives and may have superimposed my thoughts on the narrative here; another commenter said that it was the city that dragged Fraser down in the vid, which I completely missed, so I'm going to have to rewatch it. In either case, this vid does an excellent job of foregrounding elements of Fraser's character that don't get a lot of screen time.

P.S. The ending was fantastic! I was moved.

Re: In short: yay, vid!

[keerawa]

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this, aethel. You are absolutely right - Fraser is also a fallen leaf, and he needs the people that he is out there fighting to save to save him in return. That's where I was trying to go with the ending. I think that Fraser blames the city for the corruption he sees, but I start off the vid with the primary example of corruption, betrayal, and murder - Gerard murdering Bob Fraser in Canada.

Thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback!