Vid: Maybe This Time [Avatar: the Last Airbender]

[cherry]

Title: Maybe This Time
Music: OK Go
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Summary: Zuko doesn't know what he is becoming.

Links: Download (36 MB DivX AVI, right click, save as) | Stream (BAM) | Stream (Blip)

Maybe This Time
Having spent your entire life
Exactly where you are tonight
In the valley between intent and deed

You must have mastered this
The fragile art of a good excuse
And the little things that get you to believe
that get you to believe

So listen I'm not trying to prove anything at all here
But don't you think that maybe this time you were wrong?

You've spent your entire life
Quick-tongued and always right
Hasn't being right just let you down (right just let you down)

So listen I'm not trying to say anything at all here
There isn't much left anyway that hasn't been said
But don't you think that possibly this time its different
Don't you think that maybe this time you were wrong?

So listen I'm not trying to say anything at all here
There isn't much left anyway that hasn't been said
But don't you think that possibly this time its different
Don't you think that maybe this time you were wrong?



Notes: A great many thanks are due to the fabulous elynross, for helping create some sort of order out of the chaos.

Any and all comments/concrit would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

This was delightful. Perfect song for Zuko, and I love the way you used motion - the images of firebending and dancing really emphasized on of the things I love about Zuko - how he's such a changing and moving character who's always rushing forward.

Also, I hadn't caught that the there was a cart carrying the blue spirit mask until I watched this vid, which make me totally squee and love this show a little be more for the super subtle forshadowing.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly. I was lucky in finding the song, which to me really screams 'Zuko.' He's smart but he doesn't let himself think, and there were a delightful number of parallels to play with.

There are a number of little touches throughout the series like the mask on the cart, and I didn't notice them myself until I started making this vid.

Thank you for watching.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It's a great song.

And yeah, Avatar is full of little touches like that that make it so much fun to rewatch.

Thank you for making this vid - it was my pleasure to watch.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

ATLA's use of props for continuity and foreshadowing is some of the best I've seen on any show. Little things from Iroh's monkey toy to the mask being sold to the crown that delirious!Katara wears in episode 1x13 having the same dragon design that we seen on the ruins in episode 3x13.

Thanks for reccing this video, btw. Great fun!


Another thing I liked about it: the sequence with Song reaching out and then Zuko pushing her hand away. Just perfectly timed and really highlights how Zuko isolated himself from others in the first half of the show.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

ATLA's use of props for continuity and foreshadowing is some of the best I've seen on any show. Little things from Iroh's monkey toy to the mask being sold to the crown that delirious!Katara wears in episode 1x13 having the same dragon design that we seen on the ruins in episode 3x13.

So true - I love the crown continuity, both because it's freaking awesome, and for various shipper reasons.

You're welcome.