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

[rhoboat.livejournal.com]

You posted! Parallels! ♥

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

I can't even leave coherent feedback other than to say this is INCREDIBLE. *runs off to download*

[calvinahobbes.livejournal.com]

OMG. WOW. I... That was amazing. I don't know what to say, except I feel so sad for little Melody Pond right now. Wow!

[tehlime.livejournal.com]

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS. I CAN'T EVEN FORM COHERENT WORDS RIGHT NOW. I'll just sit here and flail until the English language returns to me.

Seriously, the parallels. The space suits! The death scenes! THE EDITING IT IS GLORIOUS.

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[promethia_tenk]

OMG, I'm all incoherent. It's . . . a River vid. I mean, not River/Doctor, not 'River Song is Awesome.' A vid about River, about her life. And it's amazing.

I think I've watched it five or six times already . . .

[di-br.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD! That was absolutely amazing and gorgeous and... PARALLELS! VISUALS! MOVEMENT! I... I can't even form proper sentences right now, there was just so much going on in that vid, so much brilliant, gorgeous stuff that I was watching and constantly going "Wow! That was good-- OH, Nice! WOW! That was the bes-- No, THAT was the bes-- OK, THAT WAS DEFINITELY THE BEST-- How did that-- GAH! Brilliant. Oh, clever-- DUDE! AWESOME!".
I would love to sound not like a babbling mess right now, but I honestly wouldn't know where to start with this vid! It's just... amazing! Thank you for sharing this!

[elisi]

*flails*

I need to re-watch it about million times because of how amazing it is (and to get to grips with all the layers), but I just wanted to comments straight away and thank you for making this, because it echoes so many thoughts I've had (and explores tons of other ones) and brilliantly so! Oh River.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Here on a rec by promethia_tenk. This is really lovely and creepy in all the best ways. You capture the dark side of Doctor Who well--the cost of traveling with the Doctor. Great vid!

[such_heights]

AHHHH THIS IS AWESOME. I want to watch it a bunch more times so I feel like I've pulled more out of it, but it's really smart and insightful and with completely gorgeous use of movement and parallels. The bit that got me most on this first viewing was River punching Ten and then Eleven staggering to the ground. Just wonderful. Also I really appreciated how much Amy you used and the ways in which you tied their storylines together. Wonderful!

[hollywoodgrrl.livejournal.com]

This was truly, truly beautiful! It's one of those things where I loved EVERYTHING about it. Amazing music choice, amazing editing, really thought out storytelling. EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[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!

[nuit-belle.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this. Suitably creepy.

I especially liked:

- River punching Ten at 1:59 and then Eleven falling to his knees on the sand

- followed quickly by River's death and then the Doctor's death on the beach

- all the clips of the various astronaut suits

- the parallels between River in Amy's deserted house and Amy searching the orphanage

[celinejaneway.livejournal.com]

Holy Crap that was amazing!

[killmotion.livejournal.com]

Gaspppppppppp. This is amazing. (Here via Vera!)

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

OMG. OMG. This is absolutely amazing.

[farsh-nuke.livejournal.com]

let me put it this way, 2 question mark umbrellas arrived from America yesterday and now I have a new tv but this video is still more epic and I have just realised the reason River was angry about the spaceman and was distraught/disturbed by it was because to her it was the distant past, something she didn't know she would be involved in, again, and a reminder of the similar fate approaching her, the day the Doctor wouldn't recognize her. Perhaps that's why they always meet in reverse, because each sees the other after they've seen the other's 'death' and the only way they can go is at odds to the other's personal timeline and when each approaches the other from the wrong end, the timelines are destined to run opposite each other most of the time.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

I did! So glad you liked it.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much for watching. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

<3 Thank you ever so much for your kind words. There were so many parallels when when I went back to clip -- far more than I remembered. I'm glad I was able to bring them together for you.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! The world needs more River, in my opinion. Quite a large number of things are better with more River.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so kindly. I'm just tickled you enjoyed it so much!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! There were so many levels and parallels to explore in the (video) text and I'm so glad they resonated with you.