So, I am at about Crowley levels of upset about this:
Like, you weren't kidding about the FEELINGS. Need to re-watch it more, what with the five hundred different meanings and layers you give to 'Hallelujah', but will get back to you asap.
(It also amuses me greatly that while you have been creating this exquisite work of beauty and faith, Owls, Promethia (and I, although not as literally) have been creating something... completely, utterly different. And that both are made from the same six hours or so of TV. This show is a freaking miracle.)
ETA: OK, I am back!
- 'Secret chord' = Ineffable Plan?
- 'But you don't care for music' I presume this is noting that Aziraphale does not want to question anything?
- Obvs the 'minor fall'/'major lift' are *inspired*.
- Aziraphale with the dove is just heartbreaking. And that's all you & the music, cause it's fine on the show. (Although 'Baffled king' is perfect.)
- 'You saw her bathing on the roof' - again, exquisite clip matches, and Azira carrying his heart in his hands.
- But then: 'She tied you to the kitchen chair/She broke your throne and she cut your hair/And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah' And fuck me that's amazing. (This comment will be mostly flailing.) The uncomfortable notes of The Arrangement all laid out, and (something that is often overlooked) but Crowley is very good at his job. (The way he talks Aziraphale into influencing the Antichrist is masterful.)
- Then a whole collection of Aziraphale faces of continual sadness. This vid was made to crush people. :'( ETA: OK, so it's all about Azira's disappointment with, and dismissal by, Heaven, but his FACE.
- Crowley! Crowley in dialogue. Crowley being cynical and harsh because he's been hurt, and I have literally been writing meta on this today, so I am going to go lightly over that verse cause otherwise I'd just write the whole thing out again.
- 'Well, maybe there's a God above/But all I've ever learned from love/Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya' THIS. This killed me. This slays me on every view. This is goddamn genius and I have ALL the feelings about Crowley and his relationship with God and re-creating his own Garden and treating the plants the way he was himself (I presume that's the Tumblr meta that inspired it?) and MY HEART.
- Break-up. Ugh, also sad. Especially like Crowley's helpless gesture (on 3.01), which just matches things perfectly. How he is trying to communicate, and it's just not working.
- 'Hallelujah'. Aziraphale going up into the light and Crowley down below in the flames is just a gorgeous, gorgeous juxtaposition, and I haven't seen anything like it elsewhere.
- And then you manage to tell the whole rest of the story with only Hallelujahs and music. Especially loved the parallel between grasping Agnes' prophecy and the apple, although I'd love any further insights into clip choices. (or not, if you're all exhausted... <3)
I think that's it. I'll go away and cry about Aziraphale's face and Crowley's pain.
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Date: 2019-07-22 06:15 pm (UTC)Like, you weren't kidding about the FEELINGS. Need to re-watch it more, what with the five hundred different meanings and layers you give to 'Hallelujah', but will get back to you asap.
(It also amuses me greatly that while you have been creating this exquisite work of beauty and faith, Owls, Promethia (and I, although not as literally) have been creating something... completely, utterly different. And that both are made from the same six hours or so of TV. This show is a freaking miracle.)
ETA: OK, I am back!
- 'Secret chord' = Ineffable Plan?
- 'But you don't care for music' I presume this is noting that Aziraphale does not want to question anything?
- Obvs the 'minor fall'/'major lift' are *inspired*.
- Aziraphale with the dove is just heartbreaking. And that's all you & the music, cause it's fine on the show. (Although 'Baffled king' is perfect.)
- 'You saw her bathing on the roof' - again, exquisite clip matches, and Azira carrying his heart in his hands.
- But then: 'She tied you to the kitchen chair/She broke your throne and she cut your hair/And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah' And fuck me that's amazing. (This comment will be mostly flailing.) The uncomfortable notes of The Arrangement all laid out, and (something that is often overlooked) but Crowley is very good at his job. (The way he talks Aziraphale into influencing the Antichrist is masterful.)
- Then a whole collection of Aziraphale faces of continual sadness. This vid was made to crush people. :'( ETA: OK, so it's all about Azira's disappointment with, and dismissal by, Heaven, but his FACE.
- Crowley! Crowley in dialogue. Crowley being cynical and harsh because he's been hurt, and I have literally been writing meta on this today, so I am going to go lightly over that verse cause otherwise I'd just write the whole thing out again.
- 'Well, maybe there's a God above/But all I've ever learned from love/Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya' THIS. This killed me. This slays me on every view. This is goddamn genius and I have ALL the feelings about Crowley and his relationship with God and re-creating his own Garden and treating the plants the way he was himself (I presume that's the Tumblr meta that inspired it?) and MY HEART.
- Break-up. Ugh, also sad. Especially like Crowley's helpless gesture (on 3.01), which just matches things perfectly. How he is trying to communicate, and it's just not working.
- 'Hallelujah'. Aziraphale going up into the light and Crowley down below in the flames is just a gorgeous, gorgeous juxtaposition, and I haven't seen anything like it elsewhere.
- And then you manage to tell the whole rest of the story with only Hallelujahs and music. Especially loved the parallel between grasping Agnes' prophecy and the apple, although I'd love any further insights into clip choices. (or not, if you're all exhausted... <3)
I think that's it. I'll go away and cry about Aziraphale's face and Crowley's pain.