valarltd | Friday Continued

Friday night was the video premiere show.

I dismissed my last panel five minutes early to catch my stuff. As it turned out, they were running behind, so I got to see Ginger's stuff from Stampede Productions. Some very cool vids. A multifandom trip on the Titanic. A celebration of servicepeople.

Then mine.

First up was "What I did for love." People chuckled at the title card, but then it went quiet for the death of Spock. When we switched to Luke and Vader, there were more chuckles, but they died away quickly. Flash Gordon elicited a few, until they realized it was the execution scene and the last shot was of the coffin. The Willow & Xander section was very quiet. Someone burst out with "Ahahaha I don't believe she used Frisco Kid" as we moved to Avram, but as he suffered, purifying his soul through fire, the laughter died. And nobody giggled during the Frodo and Sam at the Boats segment. As it faded a woman next to me sniffled and said "That was really intense."

The audience seemed puzzled by "Happy Together" which is an anti-het vid. It shows a lot of het relationships going very badly.

Then "Teddy Bears' Picnic." The audience started laughing at the title card! And didn't stop. When the card "a Star Wars Gen vid, by Angel" showed up, they roared. They laughed harder at all the right places.

Then came "Veteran of the Psychic Wars." There was some laughter at the concept of the "multifandom insane asylum" but it died out as we saw the sheer grimness of the facility. But the laughs started again with Luke and his "Psychic powers after death of family" card. There was laughter clear through the Luke segment until the diagnosis and the straightjacket. More laughter greeted Dorothy, until they saw her restrained and facing the horror of a decimated Oz. By Damien and Buffy, no one was laughing.

jkb overheard someone say "That was seriously warped."