New Vid: "Shock the Monkey" (Hawaii Five-0)

[giandujakiss]

AKA, how I spent my Sunday....

Song: Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0

Summary: Full immunity and means.

Spoilers: Through 1x18

Sizes: 30 MB (540 x 360 .divx), 14 MB (420 x 280 .wmv)
Length: 2:14

Download: Monsters from the Vids

Notes: Honestly, this vid is more catharsis for me than anything else. I can't help 'shipping Steve and Danny, but I really resent the show for making it impossible for me to love them guilt-free, and for making me feel so ashamed about liking the parts that I like. So I felt like I had to at least register my objections in some way, however weak the effort may be, in between all the devouring of Steve/Danny first-time fic. IDEK.



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Comments welcome.

(Crossposted to LJ)

Comments

[arallara]

Oh, also, I really loved the reaction shots, the smirky fondness Steve and Danny show each other, as they each do reprehensible things. In the show, those moments and those looks work as slash subtext moments--we totally love when they look at each other like that, right? Using those reaction shots here is a nice way of acknowledging how much we eroticize that aspect of their dynamic in our own slashy fantasies because the show weaves the violence into their characters and their relationship in that way, textually.

It's like the show is saying, no, don't look over there at the police brutality, look over here at how cute Steve and Danny are being! And we go, okay, yes, WE LOVE STEVE AND DANNY! I have no idea if I'm making sense! But I liked it! Really, well done!!

(And also, I'm totally reading the hell out of H50 fic right now and mostly guilt-free loving the episodes as I watch them, going lalalalala about the things that don't make sense or that actually really suck. It's a happy place show for me! But I agree with and have thought myself about everything you've said in this post and this vid, so I figured I'd take my chance to continue the catharsis, heh. I have no judgment for anyone who watches this show without angsting about all this stuff, though! Have at it!)

[giandujakiss]

the show weaves the violence into their characters and their relationship in that way, textually.

Yes, exactly, it's why I find the show so problematic! I can't even fast forward past the torture because that's where the flirty bits are. I saw a delightful Steve/Danny vid not long ago, but I was sort of wincing my way through because, of course, there was no separating their relationship from the police brutality.

Yet, like you, I'm still devouring the fic.

Anyway, I'm very glad you liked the vid - thank you!