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

[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. ;)