That's certainly an interesting perspective. I get what you're saying, although I disagree somewhat about how had that would be to convey in a vid; mainly because vids are almost always designed to be watched with the context of canon and the context is intextricably linked with the moment. But, so as not to derail this into a very subjective discussion about vidding technique, I definitely read the two vids in question a little differently to you.
In dualbunny's vid I think I could be more easily persuaded to agree with you. She ends on the moment of Kara accepting her own death and, presumably, whatever destiny that entails. But even if she's ignoring the poof simply because it wouldn't work narratively; one can't convey her continued journey effectively, so let's focus on her completed journey, I still find it interesting that the end result is a vid that doesn't use it.
I do have a much different interpretation of threezerotwo's vid, though. Which is probably highly personal and subjective, but I'll share anyway. In that vid, we don't even see Kara on Earth. We don't see any of her joy or fulfillment. We see her confused almost dreadful look as Laura asks where she's taken them. We see Earth from afar, and then we return to Kara, setting her own body aflame, on nuked Earth as our final moment. A startling temporal backslide, but one I think works extremely well in really teasing out the creepy and ominous undertones of Kara's journey, and that, I think, very consciously chose to end before the Earth 2.0 footage in a way that dualbunny's did not?
(Which is not to be taken as a criticism; I love them both, hence reccing!) :)
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That's certainly an interesting perspective. I get what you're saying, although I disagree somewhat about how had that would be to convey in a vid; mainly because vids are almost always designed to be watched with the context of canon and the context is intextricably linked with the moment. But, so as not to derail this into a very subjective discussion about vidding technique, I definitely read the two vids in question a little differently to you.
In dualbunny's vid I think I could be more easily persuaded to agree with you. She ends on the moment of Kara accepting her own death and, presumably, whatever destiny that entails. But even if she's ignoring the poof simply because it wouldn't work narratively; one can't convey her continued journey effectively, so let's focus on her completed journey, I still find it interesting that the end result is a vid that doesn't use it.
I do have a much different interpretation of threezerotwo's vid, though. Which is probably highly personal and subjective, but I'll share anyway. In that vid, we don't even see Kara on Earth. We don't see any of her joy or fulfillment. We see her confused almost dreadful look as Laura asks where she's taken them. We see Earth from afar, and then we return to Kara, setting her own body aflame, on nuked Earth as our final moment. A startling temporal backslide, but one I think works extremely well in really teasing out the creepy and ominous undertones of Kara's journey, and that, I think, very consciously chose to end before the Earth 2.0 footage in a way that dualbunny's did not?
(Which is not to be taken as a criticism; I love them both, hence reccing!) :)