Vid: Land's End [Doctor Who]

[cherry]

Title: Land's End
Fandom: Doctor Who
Music: Land's End - Lazerbeak
Summary: River Song, awake in the waiting sea.
Notes: Many thanks to hollywoodgrrl for beta. Spoilers through 6x07. (River Song, Amy/Rory, River/Doctor)

Links: Download (38 MB, DIVX, zipped) | Stream (YouTube)

"Land's End || River Song, Doctor Who" (Watch on YouTube)

Land's End
In the city where the tall shapes live
In the valleys where the walls cave in
Let the walls cave in
If you really want to float past the fields and canyons
Let the walls cave in
On the edges where the falls face in
In the crannies where the small snakes swim
Let the walls cave in
If you really want to row all the way to the land’s end

Don’t ever allow it, don’t ever allow it
Awake in the waiting sea, awake

In the city where the crawl space lives
In the tunnels where the walls cave in
Let the walls cave in
If you really want to float past the fields and canyons
Let the walls cave in
In the shadows where the claws break skin
On the ridges where the guard rail thins
Let the walls cave in
If you really want to row all the way to the land’s end

Don’t ever allow it, don’t ever allow it
Awake in the waiting sea
Awake and we’re waiting
Home will push you outward
Hope will pull you upward
Awake in the waiting sea, awake

When the time is right to raise some children, we will then
Like a roaring noise, filled with all the joys this life allows
When the time has come to lie beside us, they’ll find us
Like an open flame, let our smoke remain against the clouds

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Absolutely amazing video. The parallels are brilliant - a few in there I'd never considered, even though they're so clear in retrospect, like Amy and River discovering each others' childhood photographs in dark abandoned rooms. The editing is gorgeous, full of snatched pieces of movement and tiny visual parallels to match the narrative ones, and I love the overlays, particularly at the end - the hint of Melody regenerating before it fades to River falling is a stunning way to end it.

I still have conflicted feelings about the reveal, but I feel this is so all encompassing and complicated it...I'm not sure, helps sell me on the tangled web of family surrounding River and think less about the individual relationships within that web that I'm no longer certain how I feel about?

Regardless, it's a perfect vid to a perfect song - thank you for posting it!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked it. The overlays were fun to work with, and there was something almost organic about making this. I'd forgotten just how many parallels there were until I went back and started clipping. I'm so glad that it came together for you.

Personally, I think I like the reveal -- though I've always been a sucker for a dramatic reveal, so that might be a part of it. I can certainly see where people would be conflicted! I love a lot of little details in retrospect -- like that River Song is currently a Doctor, not a Professor, and to the people of the Gamma Forest, Doctor means mighty warrior. I love that bit especially.