[The Inside] VID: No Skin
Happy Valentine's Day.
Title: No Skin
Fandom: The Inside
Music: The Golden Palominos, "No Skin"
Length: 1:41
Warnings: Violence, including sexual violence against women and children; BDSM equipment used in situations of dubious consensuality and indubitably skeevy power dynamics. See "Background" for more information.
Notes: Thank you to
elynross, geekturnedvamp,
rivkat, and
lithiumdoll for beta. All comments & feedback welcome.
Summary: Everyone I see is missing something.
Download: AVI 640x360 (27MB) | Subtitles (2K)
How to use the subtitles
The subtitles are "soft subs": They'll show up in supported media players, such as VLC, as long as they are downloaded to the same directory as the vid and named the same name as the vid file (ex. - thuviaptarth_inside_noskin.srt).
To see subtitles on streaming, click the triangle then "CC" on the YouTube stream.
Lyrics
Burned with a cigarette
Some things you don't forget
Well trained in going numb
Well prepared for what's to come
This dark and secret crime
Cruelty masked as something kind
Sharp against the tenderness
Cold against the emptiness
You wouldn't notice I have no skin
You wouldn't notice I have no skin
You wouldn't notice I have no skin
And I can find you anywhere
Even if you run from there
Eyes closed, torn apart
Body separate from the heart
Everyone I see is missing something
Everyone I see is missing something
Everyone I see is missing something
Kiss her like this
Kiss her like this
Everyone I see is missing something
Background (optional and very long)
The Inside was a short-lived series which for years I remembered only as "Tim Minear's creepy serial killer show" (The show was produced by Minear and Howard Gordon). The charismatic and manipulative Virgil "Web" Webster (Peter Coyote) recruits Rebecca Locke (Rachel Nichols) to his team of FBI profilers, believing her experiences (an 18-month childhood abduction from which then-eleven-year-old Becky rescued herself) will give her an extra edge. Team member Paul Ryan (Jay Harridan), discovering her past, instead believes her experiences make her fragile, and keeps trying to rescue her from circumstances she doesn't actually need rescuing from. The supporting and guest-starring cast is like a mini-Who's Who of genre television: Adam Baldwin, Katie Finneran, Garrett Dilahunt, Amber Benson, Matt Keeslar, and probably other familiar faces I'm forgetting; the writing staff included David Fury, Jane Espenson, and Ben Edlund.
giandujakiss has been pushing the series for years. When I finally watched it late last year, I was disturbed and intrigued by the view the series seemed to take about recovery from abuse and by the parallels it drew between abuse and less violent and much more normalized patriarchal attitudes towards women. The triangular relationship between Rebecca (the series lead), Web, and Paul strikes me as a more critical and much more persuasive take on the relationship between Echo, Boyd, and Paul Ballard in Dollhouse; at times I felt like I was watching the same story told in two different genres, near-future science fiction and police procedural; it's hard to say which had a grimmer view of human nature. I had originally tapped "No Skin" as a potential Dollhouse song based on hearing the series premise before any episode aired; by the time I watched The Inside, I had no desire whatsoever to make a Dollhouse vid, so I guess you can take that as some kind of endorsement of The Inside. Some kind of.
The series isn't available on DVD, but you can find it in the usual places. Note that the episodes out there may be numbered in two different viewing orders, neither of which is the order listed on Tim Minear's site. I recommend going with Minear's order; unsurprisingly, the development of the relationships between the characters makes much more sense that way. If you watch, be warned for violence, sexual violence, extreme goriness, creative serial killers, violence against children, implied sexual violence against children, violence against pregnant women, and really really creepy power dynamics. In terms of the usual -isms, this is what I noticed: a serial killer and rapist motivated by repressed homosexuality, people of color mostly showing up as victims, a sympathetic but problematic episode on BDSM, and one episode which displayed such an extraordinary mix of fat hatred, ablism, and fear of the Internet as a dehumanizing communications mechanism that I am not sure I have ever else felt so hated and so invisible at the same time, and that includes when I was watching Supernatural Seasons Three and Five. There may be more I have forgotten or didn't pick up. The camera work was a lot less sexualized and fear-pornographic than I expected, much less, I would say, than the second episode of Fringe or some episodes of Dollhouse; there are, however, a few explicit scenes of gruesomely mutilated corpses.
This is sounding very negative, but my impression is that the show isn't worse than CSI or Bones in terms of explicitness and probably not worse than most procedurals in terms of -isms. And, as you can probably tell from the vid, I find Rebecca Locke incredibly fascinating. She's what makes the show for me. Web and Paul are fascinating, but I hate them, and not always in the "love to hate you" kind of way. Rebecca--intelligent, chilly, damaged, manipulative, and occasionally surprisingly kind--Rebecca I love. By the end, I wished there'd been more to see.
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Title: No Skin
Fandom: The Inside
Music: The Golden Palominos, "No Skin"
Length: 1:41
Warnings: Violence, including sexual violence against women and children; BDSM equipment used in situations of dubious consensuality and indubitably skeevy power dynamics. See "Background" for more information.
Notes: Thank you to
elynross, geekturnedvamp,
rivkat, and
lithiumdoll for beta. All comments & feedback welcome.
Summary: Everyone I see is missing something.
Click to viewDownload: AVI 640x360 (27MB) | Subtitles (2K)
How to use the subtitles
The subtitles are "soft subs": They'll show up in supported media players, such as VLC, as long as they are downloaded to the same directory as the vid and named the same name as the vid file (ex. - thuviaptarth_inside_noskin.srt).
To see subtitles on streaming, click the triangle then "CC" on the YouTube stream.
Lyrics
Burned with a cigarette
Some things you don't forget
Well trained in going numb
Well prepared for what's to come
This dark and secret crime
Cruelty masked as something kind
Sharp against the tenderness
Cold against the emptiness
You wouldn't notice I have no skin
You wouldn't notice I have no skin
You wouldn't notice I have no skin
And I can find you anywhere
Even if you run from there
Eyes closed, torn apart
Body separate from the heart
Everyone I see is missing something
Everyone I see is missing something
Everyone I see is missing something
Kiss her like this
Kiss her like this
Everyone I see is missing something
Background (optional and very long)
The Inside was a short-lived series which for years I remembered only as "Tim Minear's creepy serial killer show" (The show was produced by Minear and Howard Gordon). The charismatic and manipulative Virgil "Web" Webster (Peter Coyote) recruits Rebecca Locke (Rachel Nichols) to his team of FBI profilers, believing her experiences (an 18-month childhood abduction from which then-eleven-year-old Becky rescued herself) will give her an extra edge. Team member Paul Ryan (Jay Harridan), discovering her past, instead believes her experiences make her fragile, and keeps trying to rescue her from circumstances she doesn't actually need rescuing from. The supporting and guest-starring cast is like a mini-Who's Who of genre television: Adam Baldwin, Katie Finneran, Garrett Dilahunt, Amber Benson, Matt Keeslar, and probably other familiar faces I'm forgetting; the writing staff included David Fury, Jane Espenson, and Ben Edlund.
giandujakiss has been pushing the series for years. When I finally watched it late last year, I was disturbed and intrigued by the view the series seemed to take about recovery from abuse and by the parallels it drew between abuse and less violent and much more normalized patriarchal attitudes towards women. The triangular relationship between Rebecca (the series lead), Web, and Paul strikes me as a more critical and much more persuasive take on the relationship between Echo, Boyd, and Paul Ballard in Dollhouse; at times I felt like I was watching the same story told in two different genres, near-future science fiction and police procedural; it's hard to say which had a grimmer view of human nature. I had originally tapped "No Skin" as a potential Dollhouse song based on hearing the series premise before any episode aired; by the time I watched The Inside, I had no desire whatsoever to make a Dollhouse vid, so I guess you can take that as some kind of endorsement of The Inside. Some kind of.
The series isn't available on DVD, but you can find it in the usual places. Note that the episodes out there may be numbered in two different viewing orders, neither of which is the order listed on Tim Minear's site. I recommend going with Minear's order; unsurprisingly, the development of the relationships between the characters makes much more sense that way. If you watch, be warned for violence, sexual violence, extreme goriness, creative serial killers, violence against children, implied sexual violence against children, violence against pregnant women, and really really creepy power dynamics. In terms of the usual -isms, this is what I noticed: a serial killer and rapist motivated by repressed homosexuality, people of color mostly showing up as victims, a sympathetic but problematic episode on BDSM, and one episode which displayed such an extraordinary mix of fat hatred, ablism, and fear of the Internet as a dehumanizing communications mechanism that I am not sure I have ever else felt so hated and so invisible at the same time, and that includes when I was watching Supernatural Seasons Three and Five. There may be more I have forgotten or didn't pick up. The camera work was a lot less sexualized and fear-pornographic than I expected, much less, I would say, than the second episode of Fringe or some episodes of Dollhouse; there are, however, a few explicit scenes of gruesomely mutilated corpses.
This is sounding very negative, but my impression is that the show isn't worse than CSI or Bones in terms of explicitness and probably not worse than most procedurals in terms of -isms. And, as you can probably tell from the vid, I find Rebecca Locke incredibly fascinating. She's what makes the show for me. Web and Paul are fascinating, but I hate them, and not always in the "love to hate you" kind of way. Rebecca--intelligent, chilly, damaged, manipulative, and occasionally surprisingly kind--Rebecca I love. By the end, I wished there'd been more to see.
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