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

[chaila.livejournal.com]

LOVE. As always with you vidding River, I love the mix of epic with tragedy. Though I rather love that it seems like River is the one always saying goodbye, I really like the little POV switches in the verses. The first couple verses feel much like Eleven's view of River and have great flashes of joy amongst the world-saving--like on the "perspective" lyric--as he knows her better. Watching this, the differences in River/Ten and River/Eleven really strike me. River/Ten is where the tragedy is; I know it's because she "died," obviously, but the whole context, with him not knowing her, is just SAD. River/Eleven still has lots of goodbyes and tragedy, but it's overall so much more fun and joyful. So it's all so much SADDER after you've reversed the timeline into River's perspective, when the death comes after the joy and the developed relationship. OH RIVER.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

POV switches! You noticed! :D And yes, it was a deliberate decision to put the final goodbye firmly from her POV, because as you say, in context, it's such a sadder, more tragic moment now we know her story. I think it's always River saying goodbye because River is the one, at this point, with knowledge. She knows who she's saying goodbye too. The Doctor is still at the point where she drops in and out of his life like a whirlwind, but we're following his POV, so River says goodbye to us too. It'll be interesting, I think, if we ever see a situation where the Doctor knows more than River and has to say goodbye to her.

OH RIVER. <3