NaViMaMo Vidlet: a thousand goodbyes [Doctor Who // River Song]

[beccatoria]

For tellitslant!

Okay, this one ended up SUPER LONG, like barely under my own self-imposed limit of two minutes, which is nearly twice as long as my general aim. Sorry to future prompters but you're unlikely to get something as long as this is... *facepalm* I blame the song choice, which I just feel in love with. Seriously, I meant to vid one verse and a chorus, but I couldn't chooooose so I chopped up the song to keep the gorgeous final rendition of the chorus and ended up with this:

Title: a thousand goodbyes
Video: Doctor Who
Audio: 1000 Goodbyes // Captain Tractor
Summary: For every hello there's a thousand goodbyes.

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Comments

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I've watched this vid approximately eight million times now (give or take, obviously), and I wanted to make an actual comment instead of just running laps around my hotel room, flailing my hands like a lunatic. Because, really, this deserves comments. ;)

I sort of didn't read your comments the first time I watched the vid, and thus expected it to be over at a minute. And it kind of is over at a minute, because after Eleven flies into the sun, the story changes. And you've made basically two vids that are one vid, which is handy, because River and the Doctor have two stories. I also REALLY, REALLY adore the part where we get this version of the story (more or less) in RIVER'S order, because so far we've always come at it from The Doctor's.

I was unprepared for how much I liked the Ten sections, but when I went back and rewatched the library episodes (sometime after pellucid was converted, I think), I was struck by how much I didn't hate him (um...until the end, but we've talked about that), so I suppose it makes sense. He does give good sad face, and since we're following the story in River's Order, it's kind of the end.

I love the clip choices for "ten had been wrong" and "life looks much better in perspective" and the bit about the new verse. The whole first chorus JUST DESTROYS ME, particularly the bit where Eleven and the Fez materialize on the TARDIS, because I'm pretty sure if I wasn't already in love with him, that scene would have done me in the first time I saw it.

The shot with Rory's hand makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit. I've never had much tolerance for dismemberment. ;) But the DALEK! *hearts that scene to pieces*

And then the last "thousand good-byes" is just beautiful and sad. RIVER SONG! She is too awesome.

And so is this vid.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you, detailed feedback is amazing to receive, and then I never know much of what to say except to jump around going OMGS YOU NOTICED THAT and EEEE WHAT AN AWESOME WAY TO SEE IT.

I'm totally thrilled that the going in River's order thing works, because I was also struck by how...unannoyed I was by him during the vidding of it. I think partly it's because Tennant is always more tolerable in Moffat episodes - he's not actually a bad actor. Another example of dissonantly not hating him was when I finally got around to watching that "Family of Blood" two parter where he thinks he's human? And the whole time he was playing a human I was like, "wait, I kind of like him, he's like...got flaws the narrative isn't trying to make me find romantic..." Um, which is a tangent. The point is, yes, I agree with you.

The "life looks much better in perspective" is a favourite part of mine too. And I'm sorry for the dismemberment! It probably says something about me that my first thought when thinking about that clip isn't "oh yeah the one with half Rory's hand" but "oh yeah, the one with the awesome focus-shift towards River!" ;)

River Song is too awesome, and you are for taking the time to watch this vid and then talk to me about it.