Fringe Vid: Split Up Six Ways [Walter]

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Title: Split Up Six Ways
Video: Fringe
Audio: Bullets // Tunng
Summary: How many ways can you split Walter?
Editor's Notes: With thanks to chaila43 and kiki_miserychic!

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Comments

[di-br.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. Perfect song for Walter and all his peculiarities. Just brilliant! :)

[twtd]

That song was so perfect for Walter. This vid was great!

[mon-st.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is great! I love the song you chose, and how you included both the humour and the heart-break, and let every character have their moment without losing the focus on Walter. This is very poignant and clever and lovely and makes me miss the show. Can't wait for S3!

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

This is marvelous. And amazing at really hitting that twisty balance between playground, warmth, tragedy and horror that Walter's so good at. It's a fabulous song for him.

And I love everything, but both the sections with Dr Warren and her mother, and the "a god in whom you've never believed", just. So. Perfect. !!!! WHITE TULIP! It's the sort of vid I want to put on a continuous loop just to marvel at the comparisons endlessly. Possibly bake it a pie. :) or appropriately buy it a slushie and some Berry Boom cereal.

Both the long shot of Olivia at 1:16 and the last couple in the grocery store also feel like a punch to the gut. Really emotionally powerful in context. And more hilariously, the centipede heart thing beating on the beat was a laugh I wasn't expecting. o_O

[lsw700.livejournal.com]

This is so lovely!

I really like how you managed to include both the humour and the tragedy of the character - and the song choice is really perfect for Walter. Great job :)

[were-duck.livejournal.com]

FRINGE VID YAY! I love the jarring way you set these clips together, and how you flash between moments of Walter's goodness and moments of his selfishness and cruelty--it's as visually discordant as his life is. Excellent song choice and I like that you maintain the balance between portraying Walter as either a daft, misunderstood genius or a morally impaired sociopath. He's all of that, and his relationships are so fraught, and yet there's warmth and a simple straightforward joy to him, and you capture that so well here. Excellent!

[ghanimasun]

Wow this is really amazing. I love how you balance so many of the aspects of Walter, sad, painful, funny, brilliant, scary. I'm definitely going to be watching this a few more times! There's a lot there, some really impressive and interesting quick cuts and it's paced perfectly overall!

[metatxt.livejournal.com]

I am compelled to comment: what is going on in your mood gif that River giving Amy a shot is considered "creative"? ^o

Also your vids are gorgeous evil fandom recruitment material. I have a much more visceral understanding of the meta you so patiently explained earlier. It was clear then that the complexity of this character was difficult to describe to someone who had never seen the show, but it was another thing to experience it. My waning and remaining resistance notwithstanding, dear gods, if I could somehow import a brain-pov-implant of your show reading, I would in a second. Stunning vid.

...um and the eyeballs freak me the fuck out D:

[meridian_rose]

This was fantastic :)

[chaila.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful. As usual, it is such an astute character study, capturing all the different facets of Walter, the weird science bits, the creepy parts, and the tragedy. He's such an ambiguous character and you have kept all that marvelous ambiguity in this. At first, it alternately breaks my heart and makes me smile (and cringe, cause Fringe is gross), and then towards the end it just breaks my heart. He’s forgotten and it’s deeply sad, but the things he’s forgotten are deeply fucked up. There’s a lot of genuinely moving emotion here, especially with Peter and Olivia. I particularly love the parallels of Olivia’s child self and Peter as a child. His love for them and guilt over these absolutely huge things he’s done to them are both clear here, and heartbreaking in a way I still don’t know how the show accomplishes. I love all the "split the secret up six ways" stuff and all the cortexiphan kids, it's beautiful. And those cuts of Olivia and Walter and wee Olive and "you passed” GUH. And Pop Tarts. :((( Infinity divided by Walter!

old lies and fireflies

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

You already know how much I love this vid and everything about it. It's a beautiful exploration of Walter, his character, and interactions with others. I love your style and how you handled the concept. The vid has the heart and soul of the show, while including the goofiness and bizarre qualities as well.

[grimorie.livejournal.com]

I... I don't know what to say! Except it's a perfect Walter vid! And the song choice! I'd never have thought of that song for Walter but it is a perfect one!

You've captured every contradiction about Walter and his various, tangled relationships with people around him! Especially Olivia's! I just now only noticed how Walter attempting to hold Olivia's face is a very similar gesture to the way he holds Peter's except it comes out a lot more creepy especially with the way Olivia cringes away from Walter! And Astrid! And his old assistant and the mother! Then that sudden breakdown as our last image of Walter! *shakes head* Wow.

ETA: And I just noticed this after re-watching! You've matched the line: 'Catching bullet with our teeth' with Olivia perfectly! Because that's how it feels most of the time when her back's to the wall and she goes for the risky moves but it also describes how awesome she is!

Thank you for vidding and sharing this!

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

OMG I found this amazingly fun and compelling considering that it's about a boy so I was incapable of SEEING most of it! I loved the parts about SCIENCE.

you'll be happy to hear that heyiya is now watching Fringe and working on recruiting us...

[hollywoodgrrl.livejournal.com]

This vid was fabulous! Everyone already commented on the brilliant song choice but it bears repeating. For me it's the up-beat tune combined with the melancholy in the singer's voice which makes the song so Walter for me. It IS Walter! And again, the way you compartmentalized everything, included the lulz with the angst, the way you divided it to showcase his relationships with each member of the team (I really loved the clips you chose to show the Astrid section) was extremely moving and fabulous and super great. My absolute favorite moment of the vid, however, is 1:25-1:31 as it was PERFECTION on many levels, including the fact that cortexiphan angst is my favorite angst on this show, lol.

BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT JOB!

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

This is just brilliant! So perfectly, perfectly Walter.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

I'm here from grimorie's rec, and this is just amazing. Definitely downloading. I'm newly completely obsessed with Fringe, and this vid captures so much of why this show has grabbed onto me in the past couple weeks. Also, I already loved the song, and loved what you did with it here.

And all the much more thoughtful, deep stuff people have already said above, I second that!

[brijeana.livejournal.com]

Lovely video. Walter just goes straight to my heart. Great song choice, clip selections and editing. I think you've captured Walter perfectly.

[goodbyebird]

That was absolutely wonderful ♥

[tearful-eye.livejournal.com]

that was so awesome.
i think i'm repeating everyone here, but it's still true: absolutley brilliant song choice! i love it.

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

song choice, song choice song choice. it can make or break a vid. but it has CATAPULTED this vid into sheer awesome. the ups and downs! omg, Walter!

I love the intro, the slow, forlorn feeling, but then the bouncy science bits! the intercutting at 1:26!

the pacing through the vid is remarkable and, gah, Walter at 2:52 when he's angry at Belly.

I am overwhelmed by the sheer awesome. The editing, the music, Walter! I love it a LOT.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

This is fabulous! Perfect song choice and spot on editing. You've just got Walter's story down brilliantly! :D

Have downloaded for keeps.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

[Hi, going back through Fringe recs and I found you!]

It is amazing how perfect this song is for Walter and I love the mix of 'omg ew' and 'omg evil Walter!' and 'omg I want to give you a hug' in this vid!!! Wonderful wonderful work!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

What a great vid. And I love the song. Excellent!

[rainer76.livejournal.com]

I've only just found this series - watched seasons 1&2 in about a week - and this is a fantastic vid. Perfect song choice for Walter, and a perfect selection of clips. Thank you!

[raffaella.livejournal.com]

This is very late, but I've been looking for Fringe vids lately and I found yours yesterday. Amazing. I started with the Olivia vids, because she's my favourite (and I'm incredibly happy that there are so many non-shippy Olivia vids -- I don't mind Peter, but I'm here for Olivia), and I absolutely loved Intelligent Design and Mad World, which are gorgeous and exactly about what makes me tick in this show.

And then I had to check the Walter vid, and it's PERFECT: everything about his character, what he's done, what he used to be, his selfishness, his fear, how utterly damaged and heartbroken he can be, his despair at feeling diminished, and his moments with people he's grown to love: not just the son he stole but Olivia (Oh, Walter and Olivia. I'm so, so happy that what he did to her was never just a neglected plot point, it informs everything between them), and the absolutely lovely relationship he formed with Astrid. Thank you!