Vid: "Build Your Own Cathedrals" [due South, Fraser]

[icepixie]

Title: Build Your Own Cathedrals
Song/Artist: "We're All Leaving," by Karine Polwart, from the Darwin Song Project
Character: Fraser-centric, gen
Summary: "Nothing's permanent, son."
Note: Many thanks to wintercreek for constructive suggestions and for helping me clarify my own thinking about what I was trying to say in this vid.

Download the Quicktime file at Mediafire (50 MB).

Comments

[legoline]

Oh, Bento. This was lovely. I liked the slow pacing, it fit the song very well. (And what a beautiful song that was!)

[icepixie]

Thank you! I'm glad the slow pacing worked for you. I love that song as well; it was written about Charles Darwin, but it works so well for Fraser too.

[hazelwho.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful, icepixie!
Oh, Fraser. He never expects anyone to stay with him, doesn't think he deserves that, but his heart breaks every single time someone leaves him.

[icepixie]

Thank you!

Oh, Fraser, indeed. Sometimes I just want to give him a hug and a teddy bear.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Aww, this is really nicely done! Sad, but good. Poor Fraser always getting left behind... but maybe a happy ending, since he leaves with Ray in the end? :) Good job with matching the lyrics to the scenes; very effective.

[icepixie]

Thank you!

but maybe a happy ending, since he leaves with Ray in the end? :)

Maybe! I deliberately left that ambiguous so it could be read however the viewer wants to read it. :)

[grey853.livejournal.com]

This was very poignant. Poor Fraser. Loved the music selection and you did a fine job editing.

I took the download, thanks.

[icepixie]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

Simply lovely.

[icepixie]

Thanks. :)

[exbex.livejournal.com]

very poignant. Nicely done.

[icepixie]

Thank you. :)

[surya74.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. Fraser's loneliness makes my heart ache.

[icepixie]

Thank you. Fraser makes my heart hurt too. Poor guy.

[tassosss.livejournal.com]

This was beautiful. I really like the song choice here.

[icepixie]

Thank you! I really love that song, despite having only heard it for the first time a couple weeks ago. It just suggested Fraser to me pretty much on the first listen.

[riazendira.livejournal.com]

Heartbreakingly gorgeous. Wow.

[icepixie]

That was the effect I was going for, so...thank you. ;)

[ladysorka]

Oh, that's just lovely. I want to give him a hug.

[icepixie]

Thank you. He definitely needs a hug.

[luzula]

Oh, that's beautiful! I love Karine Polwart, so I was predisposed to like it, but I loved the theme, too. And it's cool that you used clips of both Victoria and Thatcher leaving him on a train.

[icepixie]

Thank you!

I've always wondered if comparisons to Victoria were running through Fraser's mind when he watched Thatcher leave on the train. I was glad of the opportunity to use both of them in this.

[lookturtles.livejournal.com]

So sad, but so beautiful. I really enjoyed this.

[icepixie]

Thank you. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it.

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Aww... Poor Fraser.

Still a lovely video, though. :)

[icepixie]

{{{Fraser}}}

Thanks. :)

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

That was really beautiful.

[icepixie]

Thank you.

[tearful-eye.livejournal.com]

ow, i really liked that <3

[icepixie]

Thanks. :)

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

Lovely vid. Beautiful imagery and mood--bittersweet but enduring and warm. :} (All I have is a goofy Fraser icon though. *g*)

[icepixie]

Thank you!

All I have is a goofy Fraser icon though. *g*

I'm a bit in love with your icon, actually. (And some of my dS icons are pretty goofy too. *g*)

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful and heartbreaking and hopeful all at the same time. I think in the end Fraser is leaving himself, going off to do as he pleases for once. Nice work!

[icepixie]

Eeee, thank you. :)

I think in the end Fraser is leaving himself, going off to do as he pleases for once.

Although I deliberately left the ending open for interpretation, in my heart of hearts, this is how I feel about it too. I read his whole Best Mountie Ever! gestalt as partially a product of continual abandonment, and by the end of the show, he realizes that mortality and change are what they are and he can't help that, so he lets go of the idea that being the perfect Mountie will keep people around (or will allow him to not feel anything when they leave) and just...does what he wants, for once, without any kind of psychological ulterior motive. And doing what he wants requires the understanding that he's going to leave/change too.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

And doing what he wants requires the understanding that he's going to leave/change too.

And if Ray Kowalski can help him do that, then that's okay, too. ;)

[icepixie]

Also true. ;)

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I like this self-sufficient Fraser.

[icepixie]

Thank you. I'm a big fan of self-sufficient Fraser myself.