This quote from John Rogers blog made me laugh (despite the unfortunate substitution of "with" for "we", at least I think that's what happened):

This, of course, means tomorrow with go off the rails like a burning train filled with pantless clowns. But, I'll take one good day.

Depends. It probably goes over better if you're making an AU vid.

I've seen a couple of vids that pulled this off brilliantly on a meta-level. There was, um, "My Favourite Friend" -- I think it was by Jill and someone else I'm memfaulting on -- which mixed footage from A Beautiful Mind and Master and Commander and posited that scenes from M&C were delusions of fancy in John Nash's mind. And another one in which Neil (The Robert Sean Leonard character) didn't kill himself in Dead Poet's Society but ended up going to the military school then onto medical school as per his father's wishes, and grew up to be Wilson on House.

The K/S Closer vid is marked AU and includes pr0n. I find it distracting, but the vid's brilliant nonetheless. It does take me out of the experience, though.

I didn't notice the HP footage in the Buffy-Edward vid, but when I do notice, even if it's just backdrop footage with no characters, it jars me. I like to think about where each piece comes from. Knowing they've pulled it all from the limited source of canon heightens the experience for me.

But I know I'm on the flat end of the bell curve.

Oh, and there's "Sahara" which features Ralph Fiennes and Siddig El Fadil.

Huh. Haven't seen that one but it sure sounds pretty. Using that made-for-TV T.E. Lawrence biopic, I imagine? Did the vid repurpose the footage from the film to tell the story about some other characters?

Cereal: seriously, why hasn't anyone made a meta vid about Mark Sheppard playing various nefarious characters yet? Think of all the footage, dating back to his X-Files days!

If I tell you about it, it would ruin the point of the vid.

It's by snoo, and I'm not finding it online. Remind me before VVC and I'll bring the DVD for you.

Ha. OK. I bet it's something to do with Dr. Bashir's active fantasy life. But don't tell me if I'm wrong! I'll remind you come VVC time.

Randomly, casting directors keep putting Ralph Fiennes in a keffiyeh (The TE Lawrence movie, The English Patient, and latest in The Hurt Locker) and boy, does he ever look fantastic in them. Something about the contrast between the white of the cloth and the piercing blue of his eyes. Any and sundry concerns about cultural appropriation shamefully goes out of the window while I revel in the pretty.

A meta-vid was sort-of what I had in mind: Hardison imagining what if he was the hitter instead of Eliot. If it disturbs the viewer, that's okay; it disturbed him, too. Don't have a clue what song I'd use, though.

Something about the contrast between the white of the cloth and the piercing blue of his eyes.

God knows it worked for Peter O'Toole.