We Love The Women That Fandom Hates: fanvid recs
For day three of womenlovefest:
A selection of fanvids featuring Bela, Jo, Ellen, Lisa as well as various other SPN females
By: nesaharnaya
Subject: Bela Talbot
This theatrical trailer-style fanvid captures how fun Bela’s character could be: a cross between a Bond villain and a classic Hollywood fast-talking dame. Only, Bela’s a little less talk and a lot more action.
• Farewell Desperado
By: el1ie
Subject: Jo and Ellen Harvelle.
This beautiful tribute to Jo and Ellen contains a lovely juxtaposition of clips from S2 as well as 5.2 and 5.10. Keep a box of tissues on hand.
• Rabbit Heart
By: ancaster
Subject: Jo and Ellen Harvelle.
Another wonderful post-"Abandon All Hope" Harvelle tribute video.
This is a gift / It comes with a price. Indeed.
• Reoffender
By: lsketch42
Subject: Lisa Braeden/Dean Winchester (canon)
A poignant exploration of Dean and Lisa's relationship that further fleshes out the lost year as shown in the 6.01 montage and goes beyond to reveal all their broken pieces.
• Roads
By: secretlytodream
Subject: Bela/Dean
A dark journey through Dean and Bela’s last year, with speculative imaginings of an encounter in Hell. Alastair makes a few deliciously diabolical cameos. This emphasizes both the way Dean and Bela’s stories parallel each other, and where they split off.
• Roller
By: zimshan
Subject: multiple female characters
This works wonderfully as both a celebration of the show's (human) female characters as well as meta on the treatment of said female characters. The vid's creator shows us Bela, Jo, Ellen, Pamela, Mary, plus Tamara and a number of other single-episode female characters being their badass selves. Simultaneously , it comments on their too-early exits: indispensable and yet dispensed of way too easily. The classic rock song selection - fitting right in with the show's soundtrack - seems to extend this commentary, with classic rock typically considered a boys' genre where women might be the subject (or object, really) but are just as easily cast aside.
• The Women of Supernatural
By:thewinchestergospel
Subject: multiple female characters
An empowering, fierce and rapid fire video focusing on many of the women who have appeared on the show.
I don't hold my breath
And I don't hold my tounge
And I know that you know that I don't back down
• Women's Work
By: sisabet & sockkpuppett
Subject: multiple female characters
You'd have to be blind not to find the show's portrayal of women problematic, at least occasionally (hello, torture porn scene in 4.10 and again in 6.10). At the same time, I think some people can't see the forest for the trees, i.e. miss the fact that there's a high casualty rate, full stop, for everyone on the show, female and male alike. Not to mention, there have been many strong, complex female characters on the show. That said, this video does a fantastic job of addressing the issue of violence against women and woman-as-victim and, for that alone, it is a must-see.
A selection of fanvids featuring Bela, Jo, Ellen, Lisa as well as various other SPN females
Click to viewBy: nesaharnaya
Subject: Bela Talbot
This theatrical trailer-style fanvid captures how fun Bela’s character could be: a cross between a Bond villain and a classic Hollywood fast-talking dame. Only, Bela’s a little less talk and a lot more action.
• Farewell Desperado
By: el1ie
Subject: Jo and Ellen Harvelle.
This beautiful tribute to Jo and Ellen contains a lovely juxtaposition of clips from S2 as well as 5.2 and 5.10. Keep a box of tissues on hand.
• Rabbit Heart
By: ancaster
Subject: Jo and Ellen Harvelle.
Another wonderful post-"Abandon All Hope" Harvelle tribute video.
This is a gift / It comes with a price. Indeed.
• Reoffender
By: lsketch42
Subject: Lisa Braeden/Dean Winchester (canon)
A poignant exploration of Dean and Lisa's relationship that further fleshes out the lost year as shown in the 6.01 montage and goes beyond to reveal all their broken pieces.
• Roads
By: secretlytodream
Subject: Bela/Dean
A dark journey through Dean and Bela’s last year, with speculative imaginings of an encounter in Hell. Alastair makes a few deliciously diabolical cameos. This emphasizes both the way Dean and Bela’s stories parallel each other, and where they split off.
• Roller
By: zimshan
Subject: multiple female characters
This works wonderfully as both a celebration of the show's (human) female characters as well as meta on the treatment of said female characters. The vid's creator shows us Bela, Jo, Ellen, Pamela, Mary, plus Tamara and a number of other single-episode female characters being their badass selves. Simultaneously , it comments on their too-early exits: indispensable and yet dispensed of way too easily. The classic rock song selection - fitting right in with the show's soundtrack - seems to extend this commentary, with classic rock typically considered a boys' genre where women might be the subject (or object, really) but are just as easily cast aside.
• The Women of Supernatural
By:thewinchestergospel
Subject: multiple female characters
An empowering, fierce and rapid fire video focusing on many of the women who have appeared on the show.
I don't hold my breath
And I don't hold my tounge
And I know that you know that I don't back down
• Women's Work
By: sisabet & sockkpuppett
Subject: multiple female characters
You'd have to be blind not to find the show's portrayal of women problematic, at least occasionally (hello, torture porn scene in 4.10 and again in 6.10). At the same time, I think some people can't see the forest for the trees, i.e. miss the fact that there's a high casualty rate, full stop, for everyone on the show, female and male alike. Not to mention, there have been many strong, complex female characters on the show. That said, this video does a fantastic job of addressing the issue of violence against women and woman-as-victim and, for that alone, it is a must-see.