Vid: Sea Lion [Supernatural]

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Sea Lion (download and notes)
Fandom: Supernatural
Music: "Sea Lion" by Sage Francis
Summary: Ma, Ma - look what I did, Ma. Look what I did to my hands, I broke 'em.
Vidder: LithiumDoll
Spoilers: Up to and including 4x03
Notes: Betaed by the very lovely trio of deathisyourart, jebbypal and sabaceanbabe. Premiered at vidukon 2008

Comments

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Oh, god, I love this. It's - incredibly painful in just the right ways, with such an incredible, almost reckless energy. I love how unusual the song choice is, and how well it fits, as well as how fresh-feeling and uncommonly used a lot of the source clips were.

I think if I picked out the bits I adored I would just be time-stamping the entire vid back at you, but:

Ma, Ma--look what I did, Ma. Look what I did to my hands, I broke 'em.
You gave me the stone, gave me the chisel, didn't say how to hold 'em.

Agh! This is the first vid I've seen to really explore Dean and Mary's relationship to each other, especially the new parallels between them after In The Beginning, and - oh, man, it's crushing. Because Dean's story is very different if everything was accidental and blameless, but after knowing that Mary made a deal herself and to some extent put Sam and Dean down the road they're on - it makes everything painful in entirely new ways. Because Dean and Mary are so alike, and certainly Mary never would have wanted this life for her children, but in a big way she helped bring it about.

And those lines, and the clip choices you used for them - Dean's expression, especially, on "I broke 'em", and his perceived inability to hold the family together, are so effective. This is an amazing song choice in a lot of ways, and I'm more impressed by it every time I listen to it, especially for how well it works for this story, of Mary and John and Dean all making their deals to keep what's most important to them and unconsciously throwing everyone who loves them into increasingly terrible situations.

The internal motion here is incredible, Dean running and running and just throwing the Impala down dark streets.

I keep watching this and I can't quite look away to write notes. *laughs*

'Cause the crowd is packed and the louder they clap
the less he is able to make the connection between what he sees
when he hears certain notes and the hurt that is shown in his facial expression.

The energy there! Oh my god. Even the slower moments of this vid seem almost helplessly driven forward - each repetition of the 'The force of my love was strong [...] Why should singer care when singer can be among song?' stanza is increasingly painful.

This vid is almost everything that draws me to Supernatural and Supernatural fandom in roughly 2:20 minutes. And I am floored by your editing. Thank you so much for sharing this.

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Wow, thank you so much for such a detailed comment! I'm all blushy and clashing with tomatoes o_0.

I'm so glad it was enjoyed!