VID REC: Buffy - All You Wanted

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Vidder: Aimee
Musical artist: Michelle Branch
Pairing: Buffy/Faith, Tara/Willow
Vidder on LJ: I'm not aware of one.
Vidder's website: Aimee's Sanctuary
Why this vid kicks ass:

I often wish I had the talent and skill set to be a fan vidder, and the reason is this vid. It reminds me of what I love most about fandom: the way we can explore meaning through media other than essays. I mean, I love writing essays, but it's just not for everyone. For most, fan vids, along with fic, are what allow us to delve beneath the surface and point out connections that otherwise might not be made. "All You Wanted" explores the parallels in two relationships through a beautiful artistic medium.

Willow and Tara had a wonderful relationship (y'know, before that whole Lethe fiasco), and Buffy and Faith...well...didn't. It's the smallest, seemingly most insignificant acts, that separate the two paths--soulmate from arch nemesis. Where Tara opened up and trusted Willow, Faith refused any kindness Buffy offered her. And where Willow was willing to let go of her previous world-view (and boyfriend) for the love of a woman, Buffy ignored her red-hot subtextual lesbianism and clung ever more tightly to whatever 'normalcy' she could find with a souled two-hundred-year-old dead guy. (Yeah. I don't get that either.)

Aimee's vid shows us the choices made by the four characters...and how one set of decisions led to a lasting love, while the other led only to angst and destruction, and also to me imagining tons of really awesome off-screen angry sex.


All You Wanted

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It won't download for me :/