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Gift Vid: The Dream Before - for ghost lingering
Title: The Dream Before
Recipient: ghost lingering
Vidder: Sanguinity
Music: Laurie Anderson, "The Dream Before"
Summary: To repair the things that have been broken.
Notes: canon-typical violence
Link: Link to signed vid post
Recipient: ghost lingering
Vidder: Sanguinity
Music: Laurie Anderson, "The Dream Before"
Summary: To repair the things that have been broken.
Notes: canon-typical violence
Link: Link to signed vid post
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The storm being Vic & Charles Fischer (Skynet) and then later time travel is just lovely. And I love how you implicate Derek in Charles Fischer's turn to evil, since that is how I've always read it. (Well, once I got past the idea that Warren grows up into Toby Zeigler -- multifannishness gets confusing sometimes.) I also love how you show that future!Andy is basically giving Derek the ok for killing past!Andy or at least that future!Andy knows that Derek is probably going to kill past!Andy and not stopping him from going back; that always fascinated me in the show and it's one of the main moments I always think about re: time travel on the show.
Thank you! I will be back with more later, I am sure.
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Derek and Charles Fischer: how many times have the two of them been around that causality loop?? I WANT TO KNOW HOW IT STARTED. Because at this point, they mostly just seem to be maintaining an existing pattern, the two of them. But SOMETHING set that off. Either Fischer being snatched up by Skynet (how did he survive that first time, if not by being in prison?), or Derek/Jesse mistaking him for a collaborator. (Where are all the timelines-we-didn't see fics for this show?)
YES that thing with Andy and Derek. I don't think I'd quite noticed on earlier watches that Andy was giving him The Nod. (I struggled so much while watching in real-time with recognizing that Bobby Wisher = Andy Goode, and in distinguishing him from the rest of the resistance fighters. [Apparently all dimly lit scruffily-shaved white guys blur together for me.] This is something I love about vidding: an excuse to root through the details of the text, and make all the connections I missed while watching the show at speed.)
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Because, man, I am just never over the scene when Derek would kill young Charles Fischer and Jesse preempts him to kill old Charles Fischer. Jesse takes action to punish for acts already done where Derek would take action to try to prevent future acts. So it's arguably Jesse as much as Derek who keeps that loop a loop and allows young Fischer become the old one (again? before?). It's interesting all by itself, but together with her Riley plan it's just unbelievably fascinating that this is where she draws the line. Jesse's anger and hurt is so terribly precise and targeted; she's on a specific mission and she sticks to it. Limiting collateral damage? Trying not to change too much, so she doesn't moot the changes she is actually trying for? I don't know, but I just think it's fascinating.
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But yeah, that differential choice about who to shoot is fascinating. Derek going for young!Fischer is not too surprising: it's exactly in keeping with his decision about Andy. But Jesse is willing to sacrifice others for a mission, cf Riley or the sailors who died behind the fire door on the sub. But not here. This is not her mission.