Fringe Vid: Intelligent Design [Olivia]

[beccatoria]

Title: Intelligent Design
Video: Fringe
Audio: Levitibus // Canibus
Summary: Olivia Dunham fights every last damn thing in the world(s).
Vidder's Notes: It takes a flist! Thanks to chaila43, grimorie and emmiere for the help, cheerleading and suggestions.

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Comments

[chaila.livejournal.com]

Still amazing. I'm not even kidding that if you just keep making vids like this, I'll just never have to watch the show. This is the Fringe I want all the time the characters and themes and feelings and OLIVIA BEING TOTALLY FUCKING BADASS, but in this desperate, clinging-by-her-fingernails way that you have to watch closely to see, because she's just that awesome. I love all your vids, we know this, but this one just makes me want to go: YES, THIS, ALL OF THIS. It blow me away starting with the opening. It's so *angry* and Olivia is so angry, but in such a restrained, desperate way; she doesn't ACT angry, she just IS angry, in the way she moves and talks and just IS, and this vid totally draws that out of the show and puts it on display. Restraint =/= inexpressive or boring, and Olivia's faaaaaaace here guh.

I'm struggling to articulate why I love this so much in whole, but it's like this situates Olivia within the entire narrative, and her relationship to everyone and how central to everyone she is, and how determined and *powerful* she is, even with people like Bell and Walter and Nina, in addition to all the other secondary people--men--here, trying to manipulate her. But it's not just about fighting enemies, she's just fighting for everything, piece by piece. Like, I love the juxtaposition of John and her mother and of Broyles and Nina at the end, and how alike those people are in their relation to her; she loses or doesn't really know the people she loves, and she doesn't really know who's on her side. <3

It's gorgeously edited of course, and "tomorrow I will be a god of men" and "created by intelligent design" needle-stabbing and throat-punching and the casting of the scientists and Nina as the earl of...Something and "never had a scientific mind like me." And all of the rest too. WHY CAN'T THE SHOW ALWAYS JUST BE ABOUT THIS?

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

<3 Thank you! But...noooo, you MUST watch the show with me! I'll just...keep prescreening episodes for you and only tell you to watch the ones where she's raging at something. ;) But yes, I'm so glad you see these things in both the vid and the character. Olivia is perhaps the angriest character I've ever loved - she's absolutely furious but it's so deeply controlled and buried watching it is both subtle and fascinating. I'm just so thrilled you think I managed to convey that.

she loses or doesn't really know the people she loves, and she doesn't really know who's on her side.

Yes! So much.

WHY CAN'T THE SHOW ALWAYS JUST BE ABOUT THIS?

THIS AND CRAZY WALTER! :D *hugs*