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seekingferretThe Greatest by Bironic, celebrating multifandom characters of color in recent SFF media
It actually feels like it's multiple vids, in sort of a "Silent Fandoms" way. There's a dance vid in here, and a friendship vid, and a vid about loss and recovery, there's a superhero vid, there's a passage that calls back tofiercynn and scribe's "Wake Me Up" (wonderfully using it as a restorative against the trope of the character of color existing to be killed off), and any of those vids on their own would be awesome. (The motion between passages is wonderfully fluid) And I think in the same way that "Silent Fandoms", in celebrating all the things we are fannish about, also calls attention to the way these things don't get attention, "The Greatest" is a call to arms for more vids that flesh out all the mini-vids inside "The Greatest". Though in contrast to "Silent Fandoms", which is ambivalent about whether we want the silence to end, or if we're happy in our little corner of fandom playing with our weird passions, "The Greatest" unambivalently, er... wants more. [sorry not sorry]
But also, in the same way thatghost_lingering made the combination into something bigger than any of the individual vidlets, adding all the different pieces together tells a bigger story about the stories we have been getting lately about characters of color, and where they work and where they let us down. By setting them besides each other we get a snapshot of the whole soup of media we live inside, the narratives that inform how we see the world. "The Greatest" is a sort of victory lap about the fact that change has come, and we have been getting so much more diversity and representation in media in the last five years than we've ever seen before. And it's also soberly aware of the ways in which media still needs to improve representation. It's insistent but not strident about it, cheekily offering corrective narratives rather than just bitching about the problem. One of the best visual/thematic moments is Daisy Johnson bursting out of the terrigen mist rock stuff, presented as an alternative to the death by rock of not just Trip from the same show, but also Darwin in X-Men First Class. It's so clearly saying "Hollywood can do better" not as an empty mantra, but as a fact: See, this is how you do it.
Also, needless to say, this is very much a vid about the squeefulness of spotting your favorite character on the screen for all of a half second, again and again, for the length of the vid.
It actually feels like it's multiple vids, in sort of a "Silent Fandoms" way. There's a dance vid in here, and a friendship vid, and a vid about loss and recovery, there's a superhero vid, there's a passage that calls back to
fiercynn and scribe's "Wake Me Up" (wonderfully using it as a restorative against the trope of the character of color existing to be killed off), and any of those vids on their own would be awesome. (The motion between passages is wonderfully fluid) And I think in the same way that "Silent Fandoms", in celebrating all the things we are fannish about, also calls attention to the way these things don't get attention, "The Greatest" is a call to arms for more vids that flesh out all the mini-vids inside "The Greatest". Though in contrast to "Silent Fandoms", which is ambivalent about whether we want the silence to end, or if we're happy in our little corner of fandom playing with our weird passions, "The Greatest" unambivalently, er... wants more. [sorry not sorry]But also, in the same way that
ghost_lingering made the combination into something bigger than any of the individual vidlets, adding all the different pieces together tells a bigger story about the stories we have been getting lately about characters of color, and where they work and where they let us down. By setting them besides each other we get a snapshot of the whole soup of media we live inside, the narratives that inform how we see the world. "The Greatest" is a sort of victory lap about the fact that change has come, and we have been getting so much more diversity and representation in media in the last five years than we've ever seen before. And it's also soberly aware of the ways in which media still needs to improve representation. It's insistent but not strident about it, cheekily offering corrective narratives rather than just bitching about the problem. One of the best visual/thematic moments is Daisy Johnson bursting out of the terrigen mist rock stuff, presented as an alternative to the death by rock of not just Trip from the same show, but also Darwin in X-Men First Class. It's so clearly saying "Hollywood can do better" not as an empty mantra, but as a fact: See, this is how you do it.Also, needless to say, this is very much a vid about the squeefulness of spotting your favorite character on the screen for all of a half second, again and again, for the length of the vid.