VID: There'll Always Be Closing Night (Supernatural, PG-13, Gen) + Links

[heidi]

One thing I've picked up in vidding over the last year or so is that inspiration comes from the oddest places. I'd been sorting through my itunes, looking for songs about doom and tragedy and loss, and I remembered to songs that have extremely perky, fun tunes - but which are angsty in their lyrical cores. One is "Hell" from the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and the other is "Intermission" from the Scissor Sisters. It's disarming and charming, because you spend most of the song humming along with the catchiness and then, it just hits you, full throttle in the stomach.

So, I vidded to it.

Title: There'll Always Be Closing Night

Song: Intermission

Artist: Scissor Sisters

Rating: PG-13 for violence

Characters: Winchesters and demons, mostly

Spoilers: Supernatural Season Three through 3.16. In other words, do not watch this until you have seen the Season Three finale.

Summary: Dean's deal is coming due and as the song says, "there's never gonna be an intermission, but there'll always be closing night."

Download the QuickTime version on MegaUpload or watch it on YouTube or ( + at the fake-cut. )



Notes: I started working on this just after 3.15 aired, because at that point, I was hoping - yes, really hoping! - that Sam wouldn't be able to fully break the deal, and Dean would go to hell, because the potential character development and storylines from that sort of a plot twist are just fraught with such lovely potential!

I almost posted it the Tuesday before 3.16 aired, but the very sensible deirdre_c suggested I wait. If you're curious about the version I finished between 3.15 and 3.16, you can download it here.

I know the melody for the song is relatively jaunty and perky, but the lyrics are angst-ridden, and I loved the contrast between the two, because it is almost mirrored by the angst in Dean's eyes and the smile on his face as the clock strikes midnight when his Deal is due - he's still trying to be optimistic even though he knows how impossible that must be.

But me? I'm still so optimistic about the stories we're going to get next season. We'll have Dean back in some way, shape or form (even if Sammy doesn't know it yet).

Right?

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And now, for your regularly scheduled programming, two recs:
ash48's Changing Channels, which shifts the prism of other shows onto SPN - I have a particular love for the "Friends" portion.

giandujakiss's Hourglass (set to the Squeeze song from 1988) which incorporates, does meta for and loves on SPN, X-Files, Xena, Buffy, Medium, Early Edition, Lois & Clark, Stargate SG-1, Day Break, ST: TNG and more. This is what a multifandom vid should be like - funny, gorgeous, smart and savvy.

Comments

[ddionisio691.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[curtainpull.livejournal.com]

Love it. Nice and jaunty. DEAN!

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Wow - that really works!! When the song started I just couldn't see how this was going to play out - but I LOVE the upbeat nature of the song and the way it totally contrasts the lyrics and the clips.

I works so well because, we know the angst is there and we know how the boys story plays out and yet the nature of the music almost plays against that! (Man, does that make any sense!?)

This is refreshing as a finale vid. The song is unexpected but still has the gut-wrenching angst seeping though. I just LOVE the way that works!

AWESOME vid in other words!


PS: thanks for the rec! :)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And yeah! Dean!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I works so well because, we know the angst is there and we know how the boys story plays out and yet the nature of the music almost plays against that! (Man, does that make any sense!?)

It does, and thank you so much for taking that from this! It is what I was going for - just a huge pile of subtext and text and the differentiation between melody and lyrics and images that (I hope!) make it larger than the sum of the parts. It's angst, but it's jaunty and optimistic and misery and hope and oh, boys all in one.

Thanks for sticking through it!

[gorgeousnerd]

Wow, I enjoyed that. I think the cheerful music balanced the very depressing clips, so yay! :)

[pheebs1.livejournal.com]

Lovely vid. I love how the melody sounds like a cabaret song, as if it belongs in a show, but yet the lyrics and feel to the vid contrast that, as you say, as Dean contrasts the situation with jokes. I like how when the song is cutty in one place, you mirror that with quick cuts on Dean. Lovely!

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

The song choice here is so unexpected and quirky, and yet it works fantastically. What an amazing choice! *applauds*

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

A study in contrasts, right?

And thank you so much!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your insights! That's exactly what I was going for, and I'm so glad it worked for you!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lilyvalley73.livejournal.com]

This was really interesting! I think the timing of the piano desk/table* drop and the "don't go to sleep tonight" portion were my favorite parts. And I liked the walking sequence and the "fifteenth bender." Just very unique all around! :-)

*Edited: *sigh* I always want to say it's a piano, when I know it's not. :-)

[justabi.livejournal.com]

Damn, that was amazing.