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YOU GUYS. GO SEE THIS VID, LIKE, RIGHT NOW.

A Day Like Today by [livejournal.com profile] chaila43

I know I am biased because I basically love everything she does, but FOR REALZ, people, this is gorgeous, gorgeous work to a beautiful and apt song. It captures so eloquently not only James Ellison's character but his role in the complex, thoughtful narrative structure of the whole show. I often felt he never got enough credit for how his role as a thematic counterpoint to Sarah, basically because TSCC was founded around an endless series of unresolvable and messed up love triangles (both platonic and romantic) and this was reflected in its thematics. It was always so easy to see the simple binary of Sarah vs Skynet, it was tragically easy to overlook James' role as the third point on that triangle, the way it was often too easy to overlook the way Sarah's position in Ellison's endless conversation with religion as another third option/leftfield choice/complicating factor.

At which point, I'm devolving into meta about the show, but people, that's how good this vid is. It makes you accidentally write meta.

Go now, children, an watch it.

DAMN YOU FOX.

Date: 2012-02-24 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaila.livejournal.com
I am out of words today, but BLESS YOU. I'm glad you like it and also that it works to show James' role within the mythology of the show too. I feel like calling it Sarah/Ellison means...six people watched it, but I suppose that wouldn't be any different if it were just an Ellison vid. *WALLOWS*

*is over it*

<3

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