Vidding and other sundries

[kalichan]

Dude, vidding Torchwood is hard.

Can it really be that I know the canon so much less well than Who? My canon knowledge is usually pretty good, but I've watched all of New Who like, at least six or seven times, and Torchwood... only two or three times all the way through. As well, with Torchwood, I have a lot of informational knowledge (plot, etc

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[kel_reiley]

Also vidding Jack and Ianto -- all their good scenes together are... in my head?

yep *nods* tho, i sorta managed to rehash some scenes to cobble together a jack/ianto vid (a lot of the clips of each of them were stolen from scenes where they were not together at all)

4. "Go then. There are other worlds than these." [Stephen King, The Gunslinger]

Aah! so one of my fave dark tower moments (also, i want to build a tw fic around that line)

5. This is a book, but Katherine Patterson's "Bridge to Terabithia" still makes me cry.

o god, me too! and the stupid movie versions were all terrible!

[kalichan]

I hated the movie of "Bridge to Terabithia" much less than I was expecting to, actually, but nothing matches that book, omg.

Aah! so one of my fave dark tower moments (also, i want to build a tw fic around that line)

Brilliant! Would you save Ianto?

I want to make an icon of that line, with maybe someone reading a book. Like, uh, Bastian from the Neverending Story, or something.

VID IS KILLING ME.

[kel_reiley]

I WILL ALWAYS SAVE IANTO! or something

i actually didn't watch the whole BtT movie, the kids in the first ten minutes pissed me off too much - there was a TV movie or mini-series made... sometime in the early 90s, it was canadian, i think

oMG please make that icon!

what are you vidding? i have about twelve vids going, and they are just taking forever b/c i can't concentrate on any one for very long

[kalichan]

For lefaym, I'm making a Jack/Ianto vid to the hymn "Abide With Me" (they played it at the end of the DW ep, Gridlock.)

And then I'm making a Torchwood team vid to "I Believe" by The Real Tuesday Weld.

[verasteine]

I love the quotes! I'm a quotes freak, and they can be from any source. I love the ones you've chosen -- the poetry is beautiful, but the final one... Very profound. I just know I'll be thinking on that one for a bit. So thank you.

[kalichan]

I love Ursula LeGuin; she thinks about stories the way I do, and puts it far better than I ever could. I'm a total fangirl of her and all her works. Glad you liked the quotes!

[verasteine]

That icon is... adorable. Where's it from?

[ophymirage]

M-F'ing word on Snowcrash. one of my best friends in the world (brilliant, but occasionally questionable taste) shoved the first four pages under my nose, insisting that I must read, because this was "so fucking brilliant writing." i was like, um, this looks like serious fanboy wankery or something. Little did I know (took me 2 years to find out) that it was incredible pop-icon satirization, layered over hackers and fucking Babylonian creation myths. Dude. I have read it probably 15 times since then, love it and Diamond Age (if only for the concept of NeoVictorians, emulated by many of my current friends.)

Sadly, Cryptonomicon, bought with such excitement, went into the Epic Fail pile. I finished it by dogged persistence, and will never read it again, nor its followups.

[kalichan]

Haven't tried Cryptonomicon. And I'm still at the same stage with Diamond Age that I was with Snowcrash... waiting to like it. I know I will, because hello! Neo Victorians, but haven't got there yet.

[sanginmychains]

The scene from "Smashed" that you were looking for the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRVmvcij6Vw

I can't find Fred's death from "A Hole In The World" but it breaks my heart every single time. It might be my favourite tv death in terms of it being painful and beautiful and actually serving the character it was killing off. Not to mention being *actually* vital to the rest of the series' plotline.

"There's a hole in the world. It seems like we should have known."

[kalichan]

I think I couldn't find it cos I kept thinking it was "Wrecked" which is actually the next episode. Stupid Kali, no biscuit.

*Sob* Fred's death undid me. And it sucked because I felt that I had just really begun to love her. (I liked her when she was in the cave, but then the love triangle shit really irked.) All of season 5, I was like, OMG this fabulous actress and ONLY NOW do we get to see it. (Joss did the same thing with Amy Acker in Dollhouse, imo. Last episode, and suddenly, WOW, where have you been??? Sigh.)

[sanginmychains]

Yeah, "Wrecked" was "You're bent!" "Yeah, but last night it made you scream."

*blisses out for a second thinking of naked JM*

The Fred character came and went for me. The love triangle stuff was often fairly straightforward (i.e. boring), but there were nice twists like "I'm choose the guy who seems more exciting than research-dude, except that research-dude killed a man who tried to hurt me so my boyfriend wouldn't have to" and all the personal and interpersonal destabilization that came from that. That was a nice move, storywise, and led to some nuanced acting. A lot of the writing for Fred was kind of dippy, though. They wanted to keep the cute southern girl and lose the crazy chick from the cave.

[xenakat13]

OMG, someone else who has seen and liked Pather Panchali! That was an awesome film, and I am tickled to death that my local library had a copy.

Have you seen the other two in the series??

[kalichan]

*grin* I certainly have. Random fact: My dad was one of the kids who might have been Apu (in the first movie), but then his family moved from Calcutta to Delhi.

They are incredibly depressing films, but stunning, aren't they?