New Vid: "The Pioneers" (Torchwood)

[giandujakiss]

This vid was created for rivkat for the care_faith_hope auction.

Song: The Pioneers by Tunng
Fandom: Torchwood

Summary: Three times bad and three times good.

Length: 3:38

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Password: retcon


Thanks so much to such_heights and sol_se for beta-ing.

Comments welcome.

(Crossposted to LJ)

Comments

[were_duck]

Beautiful and heartbreaking. Really underlines the violent paradoxes in the show. I loved the part where Jack touches Tosh's shoulder at "it can be turned", and of course Owen at "breathe in"... like a punch to the gut.

[eisen]

I love the brutality of this, and I especially enjoyed the fact that this was not the traditional kind of "song-y" music I've come to expect from vids - it seems a thing that TORCHWOOD provokes, if this and obsessive24's "The Scream" are any indication, and I like it.

[wealhtheow]

I actually hated Torchwood, but this vid was so wonderfully made and dynamic that I couldn't take my eyes away from it. The song choice is perfect! The timing was great, and I loved the repeating of the team walking away from graves. Thank you so much for sharing this!

(ok, I only saw season one and CoE--what's the meaning behind the "black holes and the uncertainty principle" pamphlet in the last shot?)

[litotease]

Oh, this is an awesome vid. My breath caught on the first round of "it's all under control" (it's so obviously not) and never quite came back. The "all you need is time" section is magnificent(I mean, Jack has nothing but time, and it doesn't make anything better, does it?). And then the grief just piling and piling up on "breathe in, breathe out." "We will not be the last" -- oh, my heart.

Amazing.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

(here from such_heights rec) Wonderful vid, heart breaking but really showing the blood and human toll of torchwood. Love the 'what goes around comes around feel' and how Torchwood destroys everyone who touches it. Amazing!

[pocketmouse]

OMG, this is beautiful. All the trying and the failing and failing again. This is what Torchwood is about for me.

[stellastars]

Here via such_heights's rec. I've watched this vid several times now and the first words that come to mind are powerful and intense.

I loved your choice of clips that correspond with the first lyrics about broke/fixed. Early, early Torchwood there, but even then, when trying to fix broken things, it still just seems to go wrong for the poor team.

All the clips of team members walking away from the morgue really caught my attention, too. I'm certainly aware of all the Torchwood deaths, but to see it quantified visually in a condensed span of time (as opposed to being spread out of three seasons) had quite an impact.

Also, much love for the Donna/Gwen parallel. It took me a few viewings before I noticed it, but it's a great comparison and I quite like the subtlety of it.

The part of the vid that I found to be most poignant where the scenes of the team during the We promised the world, we'd tame it, what were we hoping for? section of the song. For me, that really captured the essence of Torchwood, always trying and hoping for the best -- and so rarely achieving their goals.

I thoroughly enjoyed this vid. Thanks for sharing it!

[dragojustine]

This is just amazing. Absolutely intense, sad, captivating- wow.

[regicidaldwarf]

This vid is absolutely breathtaking, I'm stunned. The song choice is eerie and perfect and god your sense of timing and matching clips to changes in the music always leaves me speechless, I wish I had better words. You wove all three seasons together so well, all those themes of loss and grief and things just going wrong working wonderfully together to create something heartbreaking and amazing.

[starlady]

Oo, that was really good.

I was going to ask what made you go for this version of the song rather than the Block Party original, but then at the end I thought the very final choral overlay section answered that question--I liked the understated feel of pairing the clips and the song, though, it in a way underscored the ruthlessness of the writers and the brutal quality of what happens in the show.