Vid: "Are You Out There" [China Beach]

[icepixie]

Song/Artist: "Are You Out There," Dar Williams
Fandom: China Beach, McMurphy-centric gen with appearances by basically everyone
Length: 3:03
Summary: "And though the static pulsed around me / you were out there, and you found me." Or, we get by with a little help from our friends.

"Are You Out There" (Watch on YouTube)

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[colls]

This vid is so much fun!! I haven't watched the show in ages but this brought so much of it back, thank you!!

[icepixie]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[caltha]

Aw, this is really lovely! I haven't seen the show but this is one of my favourite songs, and I think you did a fantastic job of using it to express a lot about the series and characters. Lots of great movement and clip choices - I got chills at the long shot of the military graveyard, and loved her spray painting a name on what looked like a memorial wall at "I will write this down."

The "why do we drink? / I guess we do it 'cause" section with the bloody hand holding dog tags was just wrenching, and I really liked the continual interweaving of social MASH-esque bonding and escapades against the background of the awful violence and bureaucracy of war.

I will totally look into the show, it seems pretty great. And your vid is fabulous! Thank you for sharing it. :)

[icepixie]

Thank you so much for watching and leaving such a lovely comment, especially when the show is new to you!

I got chills at the long shot of the military graveyard

Oh, excellent. To be entirely honest, that was borne basically of me saying, "Oh, god, I am so tired of tracking down shots for all these short little clips I'm using. Ah, the hell with it, it's the bridge, I can just use something long and lingering." Yeah, there was a thematic purpose to it as well, but it was just as much a product of laziness as anything else. ;)

loved her spray painting a name on what looked like a memorial wall at "I will write this down."

Thanks! The show actually has the characters go to the Vietnam Wall in the late 80s (episodes jump around a lot in time in the last season), and I cannot tell you how tempted I was to cut immediately to a shot of them all, 20 years older, at the real Wall. So. Tempted. But I also figured that was a bit cheesy and obvious, so I resisted.

The "why do we drink? / I guess we do it 'cause" section with the bloody hand holding dog tags was just wrenching

Good to hear--I was hunting a while for a place to put that shot, because it just had to be used in this vid.

I will totally look into the show, it seems pretty great.

Yay! I didn't expect anyone unfamiliar with the show to check this out, so I'm genuinely excited. :) It is such a great show. Amazingly well-developed characters, really tight writing, incredible emotional moments...be prepared to have your heart broken over and over again, in the best possible ways.