Vividcon: Vid Review
Please note that these are not necessarily my own thoughts. These are notes taken during this year's Vid Review.
In-Depth Vid Review
"Instantly" (Welcome to Night Vale) and "Flawless" (Disney Princesses). They will not be discussed in this panel.
General Impressions and Thoughts
I like dark. A lot of dark. Very concentrated forms of dark. And then lots of them all at the same time? Can be very hard. [...] Wow. Dark.
I don't know what's wrong with you all, because I vidded dicks.
It was interesting because of how relevant it was.
I'm fairly certain nobody left thinking "it could have been darker." (ETA: Apparently we were wrong.) It was very whiplashy. It was either very dark or very light and fluffy. There was no middle ground.
Because of the whiplash, the viewing experience wasn't as good as it could have been. It took the first minute of the vid to adjust.
There were lots of popular fandoms this year, and that's what fandom is like right now. Lots of dark and gritty.
Not only did clips in vids affect later clips, but earlier vids affected later vids. Muppets weren't happy. Jim Henson is dead too! ("To be fair, he is dead." / "Not in my house!")
It would have been better if some of the vids had used a title sequence at the beginning to help separate the vids from the previous one.
I really loved the ordering of vids because the tone kept changing. They didn't show too many dark vids without breaking them up with lighter ones. It kept my attention.
The Vids
"Fun Lovin' Criminals" (Leverage). Great opener. It was a really successful vid for someone who's not familiar with the show. It wasn't particularly saying anything new or different, but OT3! It was really accessible and showed how the three of them affected each other and learned from each other. It felt very long. The song story was really appropriate for the fandom and characters. There was some trouble understanding the lyrics. It was a great way to start the show because of the energy. The FEEEEELs launched the show.
"Two against One" (2 Guns). The lyrics and clips were a very strong match. The vid was really strong. The music seemed to be going to a much darker place than the clips were. It was a very good example of, well... "I'm trying not to say 'good use of clips'." This was a perfect example of a vid that I loved so much more than the movie. It was everything I wanted from the movie. The sense of story in the vid made it seem almost like a novel. This was a "river vid" or a "flowing water vid" because it flows so smoothly.
"This Mother's World" (Multi-fandom). This was an example of using fandom to talk about something that's universal and heartbreaking. It was beautiful but heartbreaking; it made it clear how much we use media to process things emotionally. Visceral on every level. This was a very interesting example of what we bring to vids; if it had been the story of one person, it would have meant something, but using so many clips from so many sources. It should have been slightly more selective about the clip choice. Some of the sources were very familiar but others very much were not. Thank you to the vidder for including warnings in the summary. We are out of time... to be continued, on the internets.
"Only the Good Die Young" (Batman). It was difficult to process because of the clipping. I wasn't certain the song worked; it caught me in places. My favorite thing about this vid was the song choice; the gender reversal was amazing. The song choice confused me at first, but about a minute in I realized what they were doing. I loved the gender flip but it wasn't framed as clearly as it could have been at the beginning. I was so distracted by the vid before it that I couldn't process this vid as much as I would have otherwise.
"Sweet Ophelia" (Hannibal). This basically summed up my thoughts about the fandom. As someone who didn't know the fandom, the vid very much convinced me that I don't want to watch this show. It was long and quiet, beautifully framed, with bursts of action; I wanted it to linger on the scenes longer. The vid seemed to say something about what the show really is; despite all the gif sets and such, it showed that it may be beautiful at the surface but it's really not when you look deeper. It was a different perspective than we usually see.
"The Pier" (Lie with Me). "I may be twelve but, uh, dong." I couldn't make heads or tails of this vid whatsoever. The song didn't seem to tell a story that was comprehensible. I thought that the vidder was deliberately hiding the fannish interest ("it's Duke from Haven!) during the first part of the vid. It seemed to be meant to pull at something deep and emotional. It made me want to go find the canon, and not just because of the dick.
"Keep the Car Running" (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). "Aliens are dicks, man!" I saw a child harm element that I haven't seen before, also lots of violence. The song choice helped show a different side to the movie. It brought out the joy and the wonder, as well as the terror. She did a wonderful job. "What they said." The vid establishes the intensity from the get-go but still builds and goes somewhere; the tension keeps ramping up. The previous vids shown in the vidshow made me see the vid in a very different way; she deserved to go away in a spaceship after the previous vids!
"Myxomatosis" (Bates Motel). The vid was extremely effective at blending the television and film source. It was a very good recruiter vid. I felt violated by that vid; the vidder did the job effectively. Even not being familiar with the TV source, it created the emotion within me. The song choice really added to the vid. As someone who's seen the show, this vid was the perfect vid for the fandom. The song was all over the place, which works for the show very well. As someone not familiar with Psycho or Bates Motel, the story was still very clear.
"Carries On" (Jim Henson). Love. This vid worked very well with all of the different sources. It was my childhood. It was very effective. There was a slow emotional build, but by the ending it had picked up; I wanted to see more things from after Henson's death, to show that the Muppets really have carried on and that his legacy isn't going away. I loved this vid on two levels: the humans who created all of this and the world where the Muppets are real. The vid placement made me really worry that there was going to be some dark secret revealed about Jim Henson during the vid. "First of all, awwwwww!" Despite loving the Muppets, I have an aversion for behind-the-scenes because the Muppets are supposed to be real, but it still worked for me. It was very ironic that jetpack_monkey made the Muppets vid and not one of the many horror vids.
"Killers on the Run (Clyde)" (Bonnie and Clyde). This was a very effective pimping vid. I'm very curious about the fandom; the reviews weren't very good, but it looks interesting now. The emotion and the action made me think of Highlander; I was very surprised not to see Amanda and Duncan come roaring down the road. I was waiting for the final scene of their car being shot up throughout the entire vid, but when it came I thought maybe we didn't need to see it after all.
"Bones" (Luther). The vid left me vibrating after I saw it, despite never seeing the show before. It left a very visual impressive. I loved this as a Luther vid, but I adore the 'ship. "When Luther is your feelgood vid in the show, you're in trouble." It's a beautiful source and the vid really drew on that. The editing showed visually where Luther was mentally throughout the vid; it really added to the vid. As someone who hasn't seen the show, the vid was hard to follow at times. The shadowy effect, the ghosting, kept pulling me out of the vid.
"Trouble" (Despicable Me). "Something fluffy!" "So fluffy you could die!" I adore these movies. There was a beautiful build throughout the vid; "trouble" meant completely different things at the beginning of the vid and at the end. It was a great vid to put in the middle of all of the dark. There was color! The vidshow was dark on multiple levels. It's a very good recruiter vid.
"Losing My Religion" (Hunger Games). The song choice was fucking brilliant. Everyone know the original song, but this cover worked beautifully. The emphasis on Rue's death pulled me out of the vid at first, because I wanted it to move on, but then I realized that Katniss wasn't moving on from Rue's death. The slowness was really powerful. The fact that the cover was sung by a woman tightened the POV. The vid helped show Katniss's inner monologue and her PTSD, more like in the book than the movies. It was almost like she vidded the books rather than the movies. It wasn't just Rue's death that the vid kept coming back to, it also kept coming back to Prim trying to tuck the back of her shirt in.
"Windmills of Your Mind" (Captain America). Despite the vid being made with cam footage, it was more effective that the vid was framed as HYDRA's own cam footage. The style and movement gave it a sexiness in a way that the song functioned; it gave it a whole extra layer. This is an example of that you can't please everyone; the song cover didn't work at all because she grew up on the original version. "I kept getting distracted by the beauty of Sam's smile." I actually had the opposite; the original version of the song wouldn't have worked, but this cover added more darkness ("not that we needed that"). Using the original song would have allowed me to relax too much. The framing didn't work for me; the beginning set me up for a vid with a different tone than this one ended up having. The tone of the song worked for me, but the POV didn't.
"Good Man" (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys). The vid was an old school slash vid using more modern music and clipping styles. A lot of vids for this fandom tend to be campy, but this vid managed to be sincere without going into the camp. This was the slashiest Hercules vid I've ever seen. I loved how many layers of love were in this vid, the love between Hercules and Iolaus as well as the love the vidders have for the fandom. Yes, we all noticed the cat and the baby (thank you for not going all the way and making another catbaby). It's nice to see this type of vid in the show. I loved the color palette, especially after all the dark sources we had in the show.
"Might as Well Be" (Star Trek). "This vid has forever changed how I'll feel about holograms." The song and the source were very conflicting, and the contrast really worked. The voiceover at the end might not have been necessary. The song was too happy considering the clips being used; it would have worked better if the vid was about a minute shorter, it might have worked better. Considering how familiar the source was, it was very nice to see a vid with a radically different POV.
"Me and the Devil" (The Conjuring). The song choice worked very well and helped warn me to close my eyes immediately. The vid was gorgeous and very intense, and the intensity kept building. It was a very effective vid that was beautifully executed. It was very easy to follow even if you weren't familiar with the fandom. The song choice worked very well with the vid; it was slow and urgent at the same time.
"Where Is My Mind" (Revolutionary Girl Utena). The cover used for the song worked very well for this vid. I couldn't quite follow everything, but I don't think that was the point of the vid. This vid convinced me that I really need to go watch Utena; it was a very good recruiter vid.
"Fantasy" (Mindy Project). This is the show of my heart, and I adored this vid. The structure of the vid was very beautiful. The framing device of When Harry Met Sally worked very well. The vid gave more FEEEELS because of the darkness of previous vids.
"Call Me Uprising" (Dollhouse). "I never finished watched Dollhouse but now I'm gonna. Milly, I may blame you for that later." I didn't trust the vidder at first; there are lots of places you can go with the fandom, and some of them aren't good. It's a vid that needs to be watched several times before you can figure out exactly what you think about it. The song choice was really good; the mashup worked very well for the POV. The song didn't work for me because it reminded me too much of Doctor Who. I hate Dollhouse but this vid made me want to actually finish the show.
"Made for This" (Game of Thrones). So, the point is, Cersei and Jaime love each other? I've never seen GOT, so I wasn't certain what I was supposed to feel at the end of the vid. I had the opposite reaction. I saw the vid as building up, showing what lengths they're willing to go to in order to hide their secret. The vid was very persuasive. I appreciated where she cut the ending; it was a clear, deliberate choice.
"Wake Me Up" (Sinbad). This is a great recruiter vid. "I love this show. I love this vid. I love this character study." Light! Sunlight! Color! The color really struck me; it's about a bunch of people traveling around on a ship and visiting rich, colorful, complex places. It's interesting that you don't see the mythological aspect until later in the vid; I'm not sure how I feel about it. The motion helps make the vid work, with the beautiful long shots. For me, the fantastical monsters aren't what the show is about; it's about Sinbad and his found family and the joy of discovery. As someone unfamiliar with the source, I wanted more lingering shots rather than everything being cut so quickly.
"Requiem for a Dream" (Requiem for a Dream). Devastating, which is an accurate representation of the source. An ugly vid that is vidded beautifully. The parallels between the characters brings everything to you at once and makes it very effective.
"Need a Little Help" (The Middleman). "Oh God, did we need this vid." It was very well done but it was very bouncy and happy and clever and cute and everything a Middleman vid should be. The vid showed everything that I love about the show. The vid was really good as a recruiter vid. The song choice really helped show the team nature of the show.
"Frontier" (Snowpiercer). How well could you understand the movie if you haven't seen it? As someone who hasn't seen the movie, it made me think that I needed to run at top speed away from the source ASAP. I couldn't look away from the vid because it was gorgeous, but I could tell that it wasn't for me. The vid felt like a train. As someone else who hasn't seen the movie, it was beautiful and had lots of colors; it was darkness and death and then they were going to be eaten by polar bears. The movie is quite surrealist. It surprised me how much the vid didn't give away. If you feel like you shouldn't go see the show because you know what happens, you should still go see it. Also, Chris Evans.
"Every Day Is Exactly the Same" (Walking Dead). Everyone who died earlier in the vidshow came back to life in this vid, right? The vid was a perfect bringing together of everything that I hate about zombie stories. Epic song choice. As someone who slogged through The Walking Dead, this vid was my reward. sisabet apparently needed just one more dead child. I'm not a zombie person at all, but I was very interested in the people.
"Happy" (Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey). If this vid didn't work for you, then you have no heart. "Science! Science! Science, science, science! Squee!" "Drop the mike." Basically, everyone loves this vid. The history of everything that happened after Cosmos came out, especially backlash from creationists, made the lyrics work so very well. This vid helped show that Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey was actually a recruiter vid that Neil deGrasse Tyson made to pimp his fandom (i.e., Science). The vid used everything from the show, live action and animation and everything. We really needed a vid with "Happy" in its title to end the show. They knew immediately that this vid had to be the closer; it was the first one they placed in the show. "The world is a better place with more science in it."
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In-Depth Vid Review
"Instantly" (Welcome to Night Vale) and "Flawless" (Disney Princesses). They will not be discussed in this panel.
General Impressions and Thoughts
I like dark. A lot of dark. Very concentrated forms of dark. And then lots of them all at the same time? Can be very hard. [...] Wow. Dark.
I don't know what's wrong with you all, because I vidded dicks.
It was interesting because of how relevant it was.
I'm fairly certain nobody left thinking "it could have been darker." (ETA: Apparently we were wrong.) It was very whiplashy. It was either very dark or very light and fluffy. There was no middle ground.
Because of the whiplash, the viewing experience wasn't as good as it could have been. It took the first minute of the vid to adjust.
There were lots of popular fandoms this year, and that's what fandom is like right now. Lots of dark and gritty.
Not only did clips in vids affect later clips, but earlier vids affected later vids. Muppets weren't happy. Jim Henson is dead too! ("To be fair, he is dead." / "Not in my house!")
It would have been better if some of the vids had used a title sequence at the beginning to help separate the vids from the previous one.
I really loved the ordering of vids because the tone kept changing. They didn't show too many dark vids without breaking them up with lighter ones. It kept my attention.
The Vids
"Fun Lovin' Criminals" (Leverage). Great opener. It was a really successful vid for someone who's not familiar with the show. It wasn't particularly saying anything new or different, but OT3! It was really accessible and showed how the three of them affected each other and learned from each other. It felt very long. The song story was really appropriate for the fandom and characters. There was some trouble understanding the lyrics. It was a great way to start the show because of the energy. The FEEEEELs launched the show.
"Two against One" (2 Guns). The lyrics and clips were a very strong match. The vid was really strong. The music seemed to be going to a much darker place than the clips were. It was a very good example of, well... "I'm trying not to say 'good use of clips'." This was a perfect example of a vid that I loved so much more than the movie. It was everything I wanted from the movie. The sense of story in the vid made it seem almost like a novel. This was a "river vid" or a "flowing water vid" because it flows so smoothly.
"This Mother's World" (Multi-fandom). This was an example of using fandom to talk about something that's universal and heartbreaking. It was beautiful but heartbreaking; it made it clear how much we use media to process things emotionally. Visceral on every level. This was a very interesting example of what we bring to vids; if it had been the story of one person, it would have meant something, but using so many clips from so many sources. It should have been slightly more selective about the clip choice. Some of the sources were very familiar but others very much were not. Thank you to the vidder for including warnings in the summary. We are out of time... to be continued, on the internets.
"Only the Good Die Young" (Batman). It was difficult to process because of the clipping. I wasn't certain the song worked; it caught me in places. My favorite thing about this vid was the song choice; the gender reversal was amazing. The song choice confused me at first, but about a minute in I realized what they were doing. I loved the gender flip but it wasn't framed as clearly as it could have been at the beginning. I was so distracted by the vid before it that I couldn't process this vid as much as I would have otherwise.
"Sweet Ophelia" (Hannibal). This basically summed up my thoughts about the fandom. As someone who didn't know the fandom, the vid very much convinced me that I don't want to watch this show. It was long and quiet, beautifully framed, with bursts of action; I wanted it to linger on the scenes longer. The vid seemed to say something about what the show really is; despite all the gif sets and such, it showed that it may be beautiful at the surface but it's really not when you look deeper. It was a different perspective than we usually see.
"The Pier" (Lie with Me). "I may be twelve but, uh, dong." I couldn't make heads or tails of this vid whatsoever. The song didn't seem to tell a story that was comprehensible. I thought that the vidder was deliberately hiding the fannish interest ("it's Duke from Haven!) during the first part of the vid. It seemed to be meant to pull at something deep and emotional. It made me want to go find the canon, and not just because of the dick.
"Keep the Car Running" (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). "Aliens are dicks, man!" I saw a child harm element that I haven't seen before, also lots of violence. The song choice helped show a different side to the movie. It brought out the joy and the wonder, as well as the terror. She did a wonderful job. "What they said." The vid establishes the intensity from the get-go but still builds and goes somewhere; the tension keeps ramping up. The previous vids shown in the vidshow made me see the vid in a very different way; she deserved to go away in a spaceship after the previous vids!
"Myxomatosis" (Bates Motel). The vid was extremely effective at blending the television and film source. It was a very good recruiter vid. I felt violated by that vid; the vidder did the job effectively. Even not being familiar with the TV source, it created the emotion within me. The song choice really added to the vid. As someone who's seen the show, this vid was the perfect vid for the fandom. The song was all over the place, which works for the show very well. As someone not familiar with Psycho or Bates Motel, the story was still very clear.
"Carries On" (Jim Henson). Love. This vid worked very well with all of the different sources. It was my childhood. It was very effective. There was a slow emotional build, but by the ending it had picked up; I wanted to see more things from after Henson's death, to show that the Muppets really have carried on and that his legacy isn't going away. I loved this vid on two levels: the humans who created all of this and the world where the Muppets are real. The vid placement made me really worry that there was going to be some dark secret revealed about Jim Henson during the vid. "First of all, awwwwww!" Despite loving the Muppets, I have an aversion for behind-the-scenes because the Muppets are supposed to be real, but it still worked for me. It was very ironic that jetpack_monkey made the Muppets vid and not one of the many horror vids.
"Killers on the Run (Clyde)" (Bonnie and Clyde). This was a very effective pimping vid. I'm very curious about the fandom; the reviews weren't very good, but it looks interesting now. The emotion and the action made me think of Highlander; I was very surprised not to see Amanda and Duncan come roaring down the road. I was waiting for the final scene of their car being shot up throughout the entire vid, but when it came I thought maybe we didn't need to see it after all.
"Bones" (Luther). The vid left me vibrating after I saw it, despite never seeing the show before. It left a very visual impressive. I loved this as a Luther vid, but I adore the 'ship. "When Luther is your feelgood vid in the show, you're in trouble." It's a beautiful source and the vid really drew on that. The editing showed visually where Luther was mentally throughout the vid; it really added to the vid. As someone who hasn't seen the show, the vid was hard to follow at times. The shadowy effect, the ghosting, kept pulling me out of the vid.
"Trouble" (Despicable Me). "Something fluffy!" "So fluffy you could die!" I adore these movies. There was a beautiful build throughout the vid; "trouble" meant completely different things at the beginning of the vid and at the end. It was a great vid to put in the middle of all of the dark. There was color! The vidshow was dark on multiple levels. It's a very good recruiter vid.
"Losing My Religion" (Hunger Games). The song choice was fucking brilliant. Everyone know the original song, but this cover worked beautifully. The emphasis on Rue's death pulled me out of the vid at first, because I wanted it to move on, but then I realized that Katniss wasn't moving on from Rue's death. The slowness was really powerful. The fact that the cover was sung by a woman tightened the POV. The vid helped show Katniss's inner monologue and her PTSD, more like in the book than the movies. It was almost like she vidded the books rather than the movies. It wasn't just Rue's death that the vid kept coming back to, it also kept coming back to Prim trying to tuck the back of her shirt in.
"Windmills of Your Mind" (Captain America). Despite the vid being made with cam footage, it was more effective that the vid was framed as HYDRA's own cam footage. The style and movement gave it a sexiness in a way that the song functioned; it gave it a whole extra layer. This is an example of that you can't please everyone; the song cover didn't work at all because she grew up on the original version. "I kept getting distracted by the beauty of Sam's smile." I actually had the opposite; the original version of the song wouldn't have worked, but this cover added more darkness ("not that we needed that"). Using the original song would have allowed me to relax too much. The framing didn't work for me; the beginning set me up for a vid with a different tone than this one ended up having. The tone of the song worked for me, but the POV didn't.
"Good Man" (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys). The vid was an old school slash vid using more modern music and clipping styles. A lot of vids for this fandom tend to be campy, but this vid managed to be sincere without going into the camp. This was the slashiest Hercules vid I've ever seen. I loved how many layers of love were in this vid, the love between Hercules and Iolaus as well as the love the vidders have for the fandom. Yes, we all noticed the cat and the baby (thank you for not going all the way and making another catbaby). It's nice to see this type of vid in the show. I loved the color palette, especially after all the dark sources we had in the show.
"Might as Well Be" (Star Trek). "This vid has forever changed how I'll feel about holograms." The song and the source were very conflicting, and the contrast really worked. The voiceover at the end might not have been necessary. The song was too happy considering the clips being used; it would have worked better if the vid was about a minute shorter, it might have worked better. Considering how familiar the source was, it was very nice to see a vid with a radically different POV.
"Me and the Devil" (The Conjuring). The song choice worked very well and helped warn me to close my eyes immediately. The vid was gorgeous and very intense, and the intensity kept building. It was a very effective vid that was beautifully executed. It was very easy to follow even if you weren't familiar with the fandom. The song choice worked very well with the vid; it was slow and urgent at the same time.
"Where Is My Mind" (Revolutionary Girl Utena). The cover used for the song worked very well for this vid. I couldn't quite follow everything, but I don't think that was the point of the vid. This vid convinced me that I really need to go watch Utena; it was a very good recruiter vid.
"Fantasy" (Mindy Project). This is the show of my heart, and I adored this vid. The structure of the vid was very beautiful. The framing device of When Harry Met Sally worked very well. The vid gave more FEEEELS because of the darkness of previous vids.
"Call Me Uprising" (Dollhouse). "I never finished watched Dollhouse but now I'm gonna. Milly, I may blame you for that later." I didn't trust the vidder at first; there are lots of places you can go with the fandom, and some of them aren't good. It's a vid that needs to be watched several times before you can figure out exactly what you think about it. The song choice was really good; the mashup worked very well for the POV. The song didn't work for me because it reminded me too much of Doctor Who. I hate Dollhouse but this vid made me want to actually finish the show.
"Made for This" (Game of Thrones). So, the point is, Cersei and Jaime love each other? I've never seen GOT, so I wasn't certain what I was supposed to feel at the end of the vid. I had the opposite reaction. I saw the vid as building up, showing what lengths they're willing to go to in order to hide their secret. The vid was very persuasive. I appreciated where she cut the ending; it was a clear, deliberate choice.
"Wake Me Up" (Sinbad). This is a great recruiter vid. "I love this show. I love this vid. I love this character study." Light! Sunlight! Color! The color really struck me; it's about a bunch of people traveling around on a ship and visiting rich, colorful, complex places. It's interesting that you don't see the mythological aspect until later in the vid; I'm not sure how I feel about it. The motion helps make the vid work, with the beautiful long shots. For me, the fantastical monsters aren't what the show is about; it's about Sinbad and his found family and the joy of discovery. As someone unfamiliar with the source, I wanted more lingering shots rather than everything being cut so quickly.
"Requiem for a Dream" (Requiem for a Dream). Devastating, which is an accurate representation of the source. An ugly vid that is vidded beautifully. The parallels between the characters brings everything to you at once and makes it very effective.
"Need a Little Help" (The Middleman). "Oh God, did we need this vid." It was very well done but it was very bouncy and happy and clever and cute and everything a Middleman vid should be. The vid showed everything that I love about the show. The vid was really good as a recruiter vid. The song choice really helped show the team nature of the show.
"Frontier" (Snowpiercer). How well could you understand the movie if you haven't seen it? As someone who hasn't seen the movie, it made me think that I needed to run at top speed away from the source ASAP. I couldn't look away from the vid because it was gorgeous, but I could tell that it wasn't for me. The vid felt like a train. As someone else who hasn't seen the movie, it was beautiful and had lots of colors; it was darkness and death and then they were going to be eaten by polar bears. The movie is quite surrealist. It surprised me how much the vid didn't give away. If you feel like you shouldn't go see the show because you know what happens, you should still go see it. Also, Chris Evans.
"Every Day Is Exactly the Same" (Walking Dead). Everyone who died earlier in the vidshow came back to life in this vid, right? The vid was a perfect bringing together of everything that I hate about zombie stories. Epic song choice. As someone who slogged through The Walking Dead, this vid was my reward. sisabet apparently needed just one more dead child. I'm not a zombie person at all, but I was very interested in the people.
"Happy" (Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey). If this vid didn't work for you, then you have no heart. "Science! Science! Science, science, science! Squee!" "Drop the mike." Basically, everyone loves this vid. The history of everything that happened after Cosmos came out, especially backlash from creationists, made the lyrics work so very well. This vid helped show that Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey was actually a recruiter vid that Neil deGrasse Tyson made to pimp his fandom (i.e., Science). The vid used everything from the show, live action and animation and everything. We really needed a vid with "Happy" in its title to end the show. They knew immediately that this vid had to be the closer; it was the first one they placed in the show. "The world is a better place with more science in it."
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