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.

Variety blog on why TNT should look at more than the numbers when deciding whether or not to renew SouthLand.

If you're making a fanvid for a tv show...

[link] sisabet's Due South vid was such an eye-opener for what could be done with non-canon footage. But, of course, the character she chose to outsource wasn't a human . . . Another fantastic one was a Supernatural vid that pulled in footage from What Dreams May Come to depict Hell, but again, not actual characters, just scenery and long-shots of unidentifiable people. I thought it was brilliant. I actually had a Eureka vid in the works where I pulled in Joe Morton from an X-files ep to get the point across, as well as spiders (for the time travel metaphor!) but it was definitely AU.

I think anything goes with vidding if the stars align with song, concept, editing, source, etc. And even if you're proud of the final outcome, not everyone will like it, and that's their perogative.

By which I mean to say: go for it!

And the song that just popped into my head is the College Humor "If I Were a Bro".

That extra footage in the SPN vid distracted the hell out of me too. My monomania is pretty rigid. Gag reel footage distracts me.

I thought I was the only person who didn't much like gag reels. I do love seeing cast members say fuck and laugh hysterically, though. It's mostly the extended and deliberate jokes that I don't like.

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I'm catching up with Justified, halfway through the first episode. I'm loving this. You all have already expounded at length on what's great about it, so I'll spare you my ravings, but the thing that's really pulling me in (aside from how I keep thinking that Raylan Givens is who Eliot Spencer would have been if he'd been a lawman) is that it's set in Kentucky, and they're doing a damn good job of making me remember exactly why I left home and never went back. (TN, not KY, but really not much difference in the culture being shown here. We just had tobacco fields where they have coal mines.)

Expound! I don't get tired of hearing Justified love.

Oh, I don't mind gag reels in and of themselves. I just get distracted by gag reel footage in vids. That's not the characters anymore. It becomes the actors, and takes me out of the world.