Vids! Mandara (Dune) and Black Black Heart (The Revenger's Tragedy)

[astolat]

I am very gratefully home! at last, and after successfully staving it off for six weeks, the traveling has finally laid me low and I have what is trying to be a cold, argh. But I am fighting it off with fluids and vitamins, and have gotten the Vividcon vids up. :D

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my crappy mcshep icon and i are weeping!

[bookshop]

I feel like I only just (re)discovered SGA and I'm deep in the throes of first heady fandom love, even though I've sort of actively been lurking at the fringes of the fandom for years. Either way, this hit *me* really hard, and I feel so horrible for all the die-hard SGA fans across fandom. This show is so remarkable to me because of the fact that it gave birth to such a rich and intense fandom. The thought of that giant beautiful hivemind of fannish inspiration dying out with it is more heartbreaking to me than the cancellation itself. :/

Re: my crappy mcshep icon and i are weeping!

[astolat]

*pets you* The fandom will survive!

Re: my crappy mcshep icon and i are weeping!

[bookshop]

SGA fandom is big enough (and in love enough) that there may be a good chance of doing a phone campaign to bring the show back. I called the MGM number! I got through to an actual person! perhaps there is hope!

Not that fandom wouldn't survive, but other big fandoms, post-series end, seem to gradually lose their luster almost naturally. SGA is just such a vibrant and creative fandom. I've never quite been able to wrap my brain around it. I hope it doesn't go the way of past fandom monoliths.

[astolat]

awwww, yay! *squeaks happily*

Also, I have at last gotten to rewatch Four Seasons now, and man, I really love it. I am going to leave more joyful fb over on your lj, but just ♥.

(ps: however, do not think this lets you off getting sadfaces. ;__; I can has cook story? and vid? please? ;__;)

[oanja]

I liked the Dune mini series quite a bit, though it wasn't anywhere as good as the three first books. I sort of hope they would do it properly one of these days, because I believe it could be such an amazing movie if made right. Um and I got a bit off track there. What I meant to say was that the video is great!

The Black Black Heart vid was really cool and made me want to see the movie! ^_^ Have to see if I can get it from somewhere. Bonus! it has Doctor Who and the girl from the British Queer as Folk!

[astolat]

I am right there with you on Dune -- I haven't watched the miniseries yet, although it is on my to-watch list, but I still really want a knock-it-out-of-the-park version that really captures the tangled politics of the whole universe and the ambivalence of the story.

And yes! I mean, you could use the source to tell some kind of really wacky crossover where Doctor Who picks up Eddie Izzard and Donna from QAF as his next companions and they fight an evil dictator on another world played by Derek Jacobi. hee!

[sage_theory]

ZOMG! Revenger's Tragedy! That movie is just full of sex because Christopher Eccleston and Eddie Izzard so TOTALLY NEED TO BE IN MORE STUFF TOGETHER.

It's like CAKE OR SEX in that whole movie, I swear to god.

Also, the vid is awesome, too. Way awesome.

[astolat]

ahaha, YES. Cake or sex! Wow, now I totally want to see Eddie do that variation on the routine. "Cake ple-- er, did you just say 'sex'?"

[sage_theory]

Wouldn't you love to be the one who walks up after he's run out of cake? "So, that's my choice, 'or sex'?"

[tabaqui]

I know 'The Revenger's Tragedy' only through the book 'Tam Lim' by Pamela Dean. How cool they made a movie!

Bookmarking so i can watch the vids when it's quieter.
:)

[astolat]

You totally want to see it! It is really kind of wild. :D