Thoughts on "Invisible"
Aug. 17th, 2004 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdI am receiving confirmation that I don't think like most vidders. I liked this vid, and got the point. It's not great. It's certainly not "Dirty World" "Affirmation" or "Come What May." But it isn't bad.
What I see are sidekicks that are (romantically) invisible to their heroes.
Jim and Blair, Han & Luke, Holmes& Watson, and especially Michael & Brian.
I hate the song. It's manufactured pop at its worst. (Says the woman who vidded "100 Years") But this song makes me hate it a little less.
The changes of fandoms does not feel organic. It comes in odd places, not at the end of a verse or chorus, but in mid-verse.
As much as I love my boys in a slashy context, I don't think Star Wars fit this vid as well as some. The Brian/Michael bit was inspired, and the QL bits were good. Even X-Files worked. But neither SW nor Highlander worked very well for me.
But I do get it.
What I see are sidekicks that are (romantically) invisible to their heroes.
Jim and Blair, Han & Luke, Holmes& Watson, and especially Michael & Brian.
I hate the song. It's manufactured pop at its worst. (Says the woman who vidded "100 Years") But this song makes me hate it a little less.
The changes of fandoms does not feel organic. It comes in odd places, not at the end of a verse or chorus, but in mid-verse.
As much as I love my boys in a slashy context, I don't think Star Wars fit this vid as well as some. The Brian/Michael bit was inspired, and the QL bits were good. Even X-Files worked. But neither SW nor Highlander worked very well for me.
But I do get it.
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Date: 2004-08-17 05:06 pm (UTC)(snip)
But I do get it.
The context of the song doesn't fit the relationship of the heroes/sidekicks in the chosen fandoms, since it's arguable that Michael is romantically invisible to Brian -- rather, there's a boundary there Brian isn't willing to cross -- and so forth. I don't think it was too hard to see what she was driving at, but overall she didn't make her point, because she didn't put the vid together well. IMO, YMMV, and all that.