Another vid

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Just as I had posted the other vid, a new bunny attacked :-) A bit more angsty bunny, hope you like the result.
Since I now have two RD vids, I have made a page for the fandom, and added pages for each of the vids with lyrics.
http://ancalime.slashcity.net/
As usually go via the main vidpage. Please do not distribute the vid without asking or give anyone a direct link to it, use link as above.
Enjoy!

Comments

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Aw, sweet! I like how the flow of the vid matches the flow of the song. I especially like the "lose you" bits. Very well-executed.

To give concrit - I do agree that the red font layered over is a little jarring, as is the burnt-paper transition. The fades are great. The layered-lightbee-over-observation-tower feels a little odd to me, but that may very well be just my personal taste.

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Interesting how people react differently. I usually make it short and big, to make sure people can read it. But I can see that the text may be a bit dominating.
I thought that layering worked pretty well, since they are on a mostly black background and therefore it is just them and the universe with the "coffins" gathering, but I guess I am also thinking of the fact that they are talking about loss and death in the tower.

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Ja, that's very true. Loss of Rimmer's dad, loss of Rimmer - and Rimmer's comment that, although he knows his dad was dead, it was different getting the news. I think that's the way Lister must feel about sending Rimmer off...

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Yes, I was trying to focus on what Lister would be thinking of when he got over all the nastiness Kryten fed him with.
I would think he mostly remembered newer things, but some glimpses on how things were when it was basically just the two of them. And of course, he may think about how it would be to actually be told that Rimmer was dead, like Rimmer was told his father was dead.
Moments when they were close, when Rimmer was just being very Rimmer, when Rimmer actually did something other worth remembering, Rimmers confusion and denial over the existense of Ace, and of course Rimmer naked ::eg::

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Ja, and maybe thinking a little more about why Ace bothered Rimmer so much. I mean, he didn't get truly snippy until Ace and Lister got chummy. :p I bet he'd do some serious thinking when he met resurrected!Rimmer, too. Ach.

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There is one thing I really thought was interesting; the different versions of Ace Rimmer. First you have the parallel dimension first Ace Rimmer, then you have our Rimmer without his hangups, then you have the new parallel dimension Rimmer and finally our Rimmer trying to be Ace with all his hangups.
One thing that struck me was that the second variation was much more ruthless. Without his hang-ups, he still had the single-mindedness of purpose, and a certain lack of respect for other peoples life. Sacrificing the Cat to save Lister was not even worth considering (you could say he asked the Cat if he was willing to sacrifices himself, but Cat was clearly not capable of understanding or consenting right then). It was a bit like Rimmer with the waxdroid, only when being Ace even Lister seems to think everything he did was fine. Lister is not willing to accept the sacrifice, but he is not criticising Rimmer who after all might have survived while the Cat would certainly be dead.
That is an interesting thing also with the waxdroids, they did follow Rimmer and with quite a lot of enthusiasm. So the charisma of Ace is there, just given a more negative use.

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Ja, I've speculated on the different versions of Ace. I think that the experiences Rimmer had as a hologram made him a better Ace than Ace, as Lister mentioned in SMAC. First-Ace was pretty stuck-up and terribly rude to himself, really. But ja, Emohawk-Ace had little consideration for Cat's life, and I think that's because he hadn't had the experiences of Rimmerworld and Out Of Time. I've said often that I think those two episodes changed him, and I really think they did so much more to make him a halfway decent man than anything else he went through.

Er, that was a little quick, as I'm heading out. I might have to expand on it later.

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I have actually thought of posting that to the community as a discussion subject, since one seems to get a lot of good response to posting discussions subjects here. Maybe you can do that if you want to expand on it? Here it gets a bit hidden away under a post about something else.

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Sure; I'll try to get my thoughts together on the ride to the plane. :)

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And yes, thanks for responding!

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I really appreciate the crit you give on my fics! :)

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Ah, yes I know that if I was better at giving feedback, I might receive more myself...