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OKAY! So first a very important announcement - tightpresent - the Sarah Connor Chronicles Vid Exchange is LIVE! Behold 16 vids all for TSCC! I haven't had a chance to watch them all yet, but two were made just for meeeee and they're lovely! I'm sure the rest are too - go look!

Really, participating in this was so interesting - but I feel like I can't talk about it without potentially giving away my vid, so I'm gonna maybe do a retrospective and stuff after the reveals next week. But really, go check this out!

( Day 13: Favourite Storyline Mission )

( Day 14: Favourite Loyalty Mission )

( Day 15: Favourite Side Mission )

OMGS YOU GUYS. So, today I turn 28, and feel REALLY, REALLY OLD because I have now been an adult for a decade, but frankly the best part of today was the presents and this vid that chaila43 made me in TOTAL SECRECY (for real, I feel very naive now but somehow I did not suspect), ranks right up there with the Green Lantern and Flash sneakers I got.

So -

Boy With a Coin by chaila43

This vid is gorgeous. It's about Ellison and his kids - Savannah and John Henry. His robot son and the girl with the robot mother. His confusion and adaptation and search for guidance and direction. Anyone who knows me and my thoughts on this show knows that I love James Ellison, but usually my expression of this is directed towards how hot like burning he is when he circles Sarah in literal and metaphorical ways. But he's also hella interesting on his own terms and I've always really respected the show for giving him space to have his own storyline independent of Sarah and the Connors, though of course, related and influenced via the web of cause and effect that permeates the show.

A lot of criticism got thrown his way throughout the show's run for not siding more decisively with Sarah or not realising Weaver was a robot, but I always had a different reaction - a real love and appreciation for his calm, quiet, impassive determination to make his own choices, and to make good ones. I'm not saying he always succeeded in that, but I do believe that when he failed it was only because of information he didn't have, not a flaw in his reasoning.

I think that's part of why I love the narrative this vid deals in - Ellison as caretaker, as guide, as someone fully aware of his own responsibilities to these others, and seeking guidance, in turn, from God about the best course of action.

Religious iconography mixes with killer robots. Chess mingles with rubber duckies. Education mingles with war.

The song is insistent and enduring and strange. The visuals are beautiful, the editing is skillfully simple in the way it catches movements and moments and shuffles them together like a series of considerations - like a prayer for guidance.

Really, guys, it's really good, go check it out.

For chaila43!

This is totally the vidlet version of this mini picspam that chaila43 made for me for Halloween!

Title: so happy
Video: The Sarah Connor Chronicles // Fringe
Audio: Happy (Reprise) // Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
Summary: Sarah Connor. Olivia Dunham. Unsettling parallels.

Direct download available here. 9 megs approx. RightClickSaveAs.

Password: vidses


I will index and crosspost all vidlets at the end of November or when I've done all the prompts, whichever comes soonest.

JUDG(E)MENT* DAY. THE FINAL BATTLE. beccatoria VS chaila43. ONE SONG. ONE SHOW. TWO VIDS. NO MERCY. (*winner gets to decide the spelling.)

Title: Raise It Up
Video: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Audio: Rabbit Heart // Florence + The Machine
Summary: Child, soldier, child soldier.
Editor's Notes: With thanks to kiki_miserychic!

Direct download available here. 38 megs approx.

Password: vidses


chaila43's TSCC vid to the same song can be found here.

We finished, guys. I'm not sure if everyone won, or if we carpet bombed ourselves into oblivion, but it was fucking awesome.


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You can find all relevant VIDWAR posts at our tags here and here.

Cross-posted to vidding and scc_vids.

Other vids available here.

MWAHAHAHAAHAA! I GET TO DRIVE THE VIDWAR AGAIN! And! And, for the first time ever, I have vidded TSCC!

Title: The Queen
Video: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Audio: Knight Moves // Suzanne Vega
Summary: Everyone needs Sarah to be someone, and every piece needs something from the Queen.

Direct download available here. 42 megs approx.

Password: vidses


( VIDWAR REMIX MATH. )

Cross-posted to vidding and scc_vids.

Other vids available here.

http://io9.com/5347563/the-questions-you-shouldnt-answer-and-the-answers-you-cant-let-go-of

It's pretty short and a nice read. It goes into the balance of specificity and answers with larger, unanswered, half-suggested, mysterious motifs. And the importance of giant messy mysteries but how if you're not careful, that's pretty much indistinguishable from laziness.

It kind of sums up why I miss this show terribly but also am...okay with where they left it, if it had to end.

Creating a beautiful unanswered question can be a complete work of art - just ask Schrödinger and his cat.

Just know that some day somebody will open that box and, dead or alive, there better be a fucking awesome kitty in there.

Also, I kind of want to write this bit on a postcard and send it to Ron Moore:

Bad writing is a demon that takes all forms and often finds a warm and inviting host with writers who confuse the arbitrary with the mysterious.

SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Damn that's depressing and off-pissing if not actually surprising. :(

Now what the hell am I supposed to watch? *sigh*

Also. Agent Ellison. I barely knew my crush on you.

In my ongoing search for thinky SciFi about technology and our relationship with it, I have, however, discovered Fringe.

NO! COME BACK! WHERE ARE YOU ALL GOING?!

( What I actually think of Fringe. Pretty vague spoilers through like...episode fifteen or something? )

( Rambling about televised SciFi and its relationship with the Theme of Technology and um, how that's maybe changing. )

( Oh, but yes, that Fringe Show. Maybe I should talk about the characters? Let's start with Peter cus he's boring. )

( Walter! Him I like; for a while he was my favourite. )

( Olivia is probably my favourite now, cus she gets to do boy things and be more specialer than Genius Peter. )

( Astrid! Is it bad that Walter calling her Asterisk still makes me laugh when I remember it? )

( Shipping: as long as I don't start Anti-Shipping the OTP, which I probably will... )

( Nina Sharpe! Because all the cool shows have evil middle-aged corporate quasi-villains these days... )

And there is my opinion on Fringe since apparently this is the only show I've been left with. *sigh*

( Vidding! But no, not Fringe! )

And we're done. Wow, it's been a long time since I had this much to say... o_O