Gift Vid: We Used to Wait - for chaila

[chaila]

Title: We Used To Wait
Recipient: chaila
Vidder: Nicole Anell
Music: Clare Burson, "We Used To Wait"
Summary: There's nothing else behind the curtain. This is what I do. It's all I do. Sarah Connor, Jesse Flores

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[chaila]

BUT I CANNOT. I love this so much. It makes me want to speak in Tumblr cliches to express the depths of my feels. You made me a vid about Sarah's and Jesse's internal thoughts and feelings, and their faaaaaaaaces! This is tailored to my heart in basically every way. I really love how quiet and contemplative the song is, sad and almost...resigned. And how your clip choices reflect that, how this vid catches them in their quiet moments, when they're not angry, but are mourning or resigned or quietly feeling things they try not to show, even when they're fighting and shooting, and how focused the vid is on showing them in those reflective, quiet beats, in the midst of what they do. Really I just love that you made me a vid about Sarah and Jesse's internal emotional worlds.

Specifically, I really love ALL OF IT, but I especially love how both John and Charley are people Sarah met too late (oh Sarah), that FACE of Sarah's around :47 when she's talking to James (and not just b/c I ship it on "I never took my true heart, I never wrote it down", you know me well, vidder), the transition from Sarah to Jesse (oh girls, you would totally *get* each other if you only could), Jesse/Derek and "keep you alive" and Jesse's face on her "we used to wait" makes me want to cry, and "move through the pain." And the whole last verse was clearly meant to gut me. And Jesse's pool to Sarah's graveyard. All of it, I love it all. (And if I want to keep this in my back pocket to show people who tell me that Lena Headey is too "wooden" as Sarah, well then, that's just a bonus!)

tl;dr you made me a vid about Sarah and Jesse's faaaaaces and feelings, and consequently I have many, many Sarah and Jesse feelings. Which are my favorite, basically, and which I will wallow in on every rewatch. <3 Thank you so much!

[ghost_lingering]

Oh wow! This is awesome. The connections you draw between Sarah and Jesse (love the first switch between the two) and how you explore how they've changed. Very awesome. (Oh Jesse, oh Sarah!)

[seekingferret]

This is so lovely. It's full of fascinating connections between the two. I love the idea that they're both somehow searching for a lost innocence, a time back when they 'used to wait' when they let life come to them instead of fighting back. And I love how you show the complicated web of relations that they both share, how your images of Derek and John and Riley double as stories both about Sarah and stories about Jesse.

[goodbyebird]

This is absolutely fantastic. You made a duo-vid exploring two of my favorite characters of all time, and you did it well! I can tell it's going to take quite a few watches for me to catch all the layers and nuances you've got going here. Not that that's going to be a problem, I probably couldn't help rewatching this even if I tried ;)

[frayadjacent]

Ooh this is wonderful! I love how you draw out the parallels between the characters. Beautifully made, hauntingly sad.

[laurashapiro]

This is outstanding. Captivating lyrical beauty and great musicality. My heart aches for them both.

[colls]

Great job! I love the strength and sadness you've brought out with the images and tone of the song.