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[seekingferret]

I looked at this vid again last night after months away from it and was like "You know, I think this thing is pretty awesome. I know I still see problems with it, and I could probably tinker at it for more years, but it's good enough." So vid amnesty on a vid I started a year and a half ago. (Also, a trial for using dailymotion, since vimeo now seems to have song checking copyright crap that I don't want to deal with, and I'm going to need streaming hosting for festivids) Thanks to kass and thirdblindmouse for betaing- mistakes that remain were probably pointed out by them and ignored.

Vid Title Joy to the City
fandom Fringe
song: "Joy to You Baby" by Josh Ritter
vidder: seekingferret
Warnings: None that I can think of, tell me if I missed something
summary Etta's full season 5 arc.

Comments

[ghost_lingering]

This makes me wonder if I am numb enough to finish the last two seasons of Fringe -- I always loved the sound of season five and you make it look fascinating and wonderful here. So, from someone who hasn't seen season 5, I like it! I particularly like sequence with all of the resist posters with Etta's face. I also love how you use cutaway shots of objects and land/cityscapes -- I always find character studies best when they're placed in the larger context of everything else, which is absolutely what you do here.

[seekingferret]

I... have a lot of confusing feelings about Season 5. I think it would have been a lot more enjoyable if I hadn't seen Season 4, because they tried to pretend the character movements of Season 4 had never happened and it made for some annoyingly dissonant moments, where on the one hand I didn't want those things in Season 4 to have happened, but they did happen, and Season 5's refusal to engage with their consequences frustrated me.

In general, I think Season 5 is the greatest AU fanfic ever, and I love the visuals and a lot of the storytelling. But there are frustrating parts. And let me be clear- the narrative I sketch out in this vid is not at all counterfactual, but it is... somewhat narratively counterfactual? Etta ought to be the central character in Season 5, but instead she fades into the background and they waste time telling stories about Peter that aren't actually very important.

I think of this vid as being a sort of sequel to A New Day in New York Town because it's an acoustic ballad that I'm using to tell a character story and also to comment on the different versions of New York Fringe is talking about. Season 5 New York is the one I left out of that first vid, because it's a different kind of New York that didn't fit into the narrative of that vid, but I wanted to finish the story of Fringe New Yorks, and so I'm glad you liked how I fit that urban context into Etta's story.

[ghost_lingering]

Hahaha, why am I not surprised that Peter takes over a story that should have a female protagonist front and center. D: But I can absolutely see how it's the sequel to A New Day in New York Town -- both have the same interweaving of place and people, which I love.

[seekingferret]

I mean, even in the Peter stuff, there's some really cool storytelling things going on. There are about five good, understandable reasons why they did the stuff with Peter that they did, and I even enjoyed some of it. Joshua Jackson totally rocks it. I don't want to steer you away from Season 5, I think it is one of the most interesting TV experiments I've ever seen and you should watch it if you can suppress enough Season 4 rage.

[ghost_lingering]

Yeah, Joshua Jackson is great, I just ... wish that Peter wasn't the focus. I really like how he's positioned in the story as the secondary lead in the first two seasons. But when they push him to the center I get annoyed. I might skip season 4 and just watch season 5. Or maybe I'll watch backwards -- season 5 and then 4. I've considered doing that for Angel, which I still don't think I'm numb enough to finish if I watch it the normal way.

[monanotlisa]

oshua Jackson is great, I just ... wish that Peter wasn't the focus.

This, this, everything you say here.

(I do love Season 4 because of Blue!Lincoln, I won't lie. But I would give my bespectacled boy up for Olivia where she belongs: front and center.)

[kerithwyn]

Etta ought to be the central character in Season 5, but instead she fades into the background and they waste time telling stories about Peter that aren't actually very important.

That, precisely that.

But the vid is utterly gorgeous and it's lovely seeing Etta again, despite my irritation with s5 in general.

[seekingferret]

:D Thank you.