This show is a freaking miracle. IT IS. Between us, Promethia and I have created four WILDLY DIFFERENT vids about Aziraphale and Crowley, from the same six (6) hours of footage. wtf. As I think I said in another vid post, the only other sources I have vidded more than twice are Doctor Who and Star Trek, both of which are...considerably longer. wtf.
'Secret chord' = Ineffable Plan? Yes!
'But you don't care for music' I presume this is noting that Aziraphale does not want to question anything? This is...a bit more complicated. Because obviously A *doesn't* want to question anything, doesn't want to speculate about the nature of the Plan...but at the same time, the *very first thing* we see him do is disobey God and then lie about it to God and that's even *before* he starts chatting to a demon. I liked that clip of him blocking up the hole in the wall of Eden after he's let Adam and Eve out because it sort of shows both -it shows that his ability to question and disobey Heaven was always there, but that he is trying so desperately to quash that ability, to hide it from God and Heaven and anyone else (including himself).
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 Thank you! I was pleased with that bit! He's just so soft and kind and I love him.
You saw her bathing on the roof' - again, exquisite clip matches, and Azira carrying his heart in his hands <3 This is also Crowley being Vulnerable (asking for the holy water because he is afraid of Hell's reprisals)
The uncomfortable notes of The Arrangement all laid out, and (something that is often overlooked) but Crowley is very good at his job Oh, I'm so glad you like this bit - it was one of the very last bits of the vid to come together properly. Weirdly, it's hard to make the timing work well when you're just using a bunch of pretty static face shots! (Answer: add some ZOOM). And YES Crowley IS good at his job, when he wants to be.
OK, so it's all about Azira's disappointment with, and dismissal by, Heaven, but his FACE. I mean, ok, yes 90% of it is about the crushing loss of A's faith in Heaven, his dawning realisation that really, truly, nobody is listening…but it is also 10% about HIS FACE. (Specifically, it was me vidding this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/CharCubed/status/1141531169839886337?s=20)
'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 <333 I am VERY EXCITED for you to post your meta! But yes, exactly, it was That Tumblr Plant Meta that is behind this bit (there was a moment when I included the shot of him holding up the empty plant pot, which I loved for the SYMBOLISM of the moment, but ultimately I took it out because the actual moment in the show is *so ridiculously extra* that it made my betas laugh when they watched it, which was Not what I wanted)
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 I also loved this gesture because it is one of a string of times Crowley gesticulates *upwards*. I included a few others (the bomb in the church; holding up the empty bottle for a refill in the Bar of Sadness) and I like it for the helplessness of him raising an outstretched hand towards something that he knows won’t reach back for him.
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 Thank you! I am v pleased with this. I especially like the last two shots, when A dissolves into light, and the flames cross the screen to obscure C’s face.
Especially loved the parallel between grasping Agnes' prophecy and the apple, although I'd love any further insights into clip choices So this is about…making a choice. Aziraphale reaches for the prophecy and plucks his destiny from the air, as Eve reaches for the apple that will change the course of human history. But it’s about what’s ON the prophecy - it’s what I was saying in my email earlier, about Heaven and Hell not actually, in the end, knowing the difference between Good and Evil. Aziraphale grasps the prophecy and that leads directly to the whole bodyswap thing. He and Crowley have chosen *knowledge*, and freedom, have chosen to really understand the meaning of Good and Evil, in a way that neither Heaven nor Hell do. That’s why the apple shot is followed by them both at their trials - C-as-A defiantly raising his hands (again!) when his bonds are taken off, and A-as-C joyfully flicking holy water at the watching demons. I get that that’s….a lot to try and express in like 4 clips! /o\ I am, if I am honest, not entirely happy with it and do now have an idea about a way I could have done it slightly differently, to make it all clearer, but hey ho.
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IT IS. Between us, Promethia and I have created four WILDLY DIFFERENT vids about Aziraphale and Crowley, from the same six (6) hours of footage. wtf. As I think I said in another vid post, the only other sources I have vidded more than twice are Doctor Who and Star Trek, both of which are...considerably longer. wtf.
'Secret chord' = Ineffable Plan?
Yes!
'But you don't care for music' I presume this is noting that Aziraphale does not want to question anything?
This is...a bit more complicated. Because obviously A *doesn't* want to question anything, doesn't want to speculate about the nature of the Plan...but at the same time, the *very first thing* we see him do is disobey God and then lie about it to God and that's even *before* he starts chatting to a demon. I liked that clip of him blocking up the hole in the wall of Eden after he's let Adam and Eve out because it sort of shows both -it shows that his ability to question and disobey Heaven was always there, but that he is trying so desperately to quash that ability, to hide it from God and Heaven and anyone else (including himself).
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
Thank you! I was pleased with that bit! He's just so soft and kind and I love him.
You saw her bathing on the roof' - again, exquisite clip matches, and Azira carrying his heart in his hands
<3 This is also Crowley being Vulnerable (asking for the holy water because he is afraid of Hell's reprisals)
The uncomfortable notes of The Arrangement all laid out, and (something that is often overlooked) but Crowley is very good at his job
Oh, I'm so glad you like this bit - it was one of the very last bits of the vid to come together properly. Weirdly, it's hard to make the timing work well when you're just using a bunch of pretty static face shots! (Answer: add some ZOOM). And YES Crowley IS good at his job, when he wants to be.
OK, so it's all about Azira's disappointment with, and dismissal by, Heaven, but his FACE.
I mean, ok, yes 90% of it is about the crushing loss of A's faith in Heaven, his dawning realisation that really, truly, nobody is listening…but it is also 10% about HIS FACE. (Specifically, it was me vidding this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/CharCubed/status/1141531169839886337?s=20)
'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
<333 I am VERY EXCITED for you to post your meta! But yes, exactly, it was That Tumblr Plant Meta that is behind this bit (there was a moment when I included the shot of him holding up the empty plant pot, which I loved for the SYMBOLISM of the moment, but ultimately I took it out because the actual moment in the show is *so ridiculously extra* that it made my betas laugh when they watched it, which was Not what I wanted)
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
I also loved this gesture because it is one of a string of times Crowley gesticulates *upwards*. I included a few others (the bomb in the church; holding up the empty bottle for a refill in the Bar of Sadness) and I like it for the helplessness of him raising an outstretched hand towards something that he knows won’t reach back for him.
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
Thank you! I am v pleased with this. I especially like the last two shots, when A dissolves into light, and the flames cross the screen to obscure C’s face.
Especially loved the parallel between grasping Agnes' prophecy and the apple, although I'd love any further insights into clip choices
So this is about…making a choice. Aziraphale reaches for the prophecy and plucks his destiny from the air, as Eve reaches for the apple that will change the course of human history. But it’s about what’s ON the prophecy - it’s what I was saying in my email earlier, about Heaven and Hell not actually, in the end, knowing the difference between Good and Evil. Aziraphale grasps the prophecy and that leads directly to the whole bodyswap thing. He and Crowley have chosen *knowledge*, and freedom, have chosen to really understand the meaning of Good and Evil, in a way that neither Heaven nor Hell do. That’s why the apple shot is followed by them both at their trials - C-as-A defiantly raising his hands (again!) when his bonds are taken off, and A-as-C joyfully flicking holy water at the watching demons. I get that that’s….a lot to try and express in like 4 clips! /o\ I am, if I am honest, not entirely happy with it and do now have an idea about a way I could have done it slightly differently, to make it all clearer, but hey ho.
ANYWAY. THANK YOU <3333