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3 CoE vid recs + more Jack meta.
All The Pretty Little Horses by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hollywoodgrrl
Summary: Jack Harkness. Torchwood's Pied Piper.
This is most definitely Torchwood’s ‘Handlebars’. And also the most hauntingly and harrowingly beautiful illustration of Jack’s “Began to like it. And look what I became.”
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Requiem – The Show Must Go On. (Moulin Rouge) bythrace_adams.
Summary: Jack Must Go On.
Jack-centric CoE vid with a definite J/I slant (but don’t let that put anyone off). The vid absolutely does the song justice!
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A Blip in Time bydi_br.
Summary: Ianto has a few things he needs to say before the end.
A CoE Jack/Ianto vid using Ianto’s speech from ‘The Dead Line’. Absolutely gorgeous. Bring tissues.
‘All The Pretty Little Horses’ really made me think, so here is a slightly expanded version of my feedback (with all the flailing taken out):
I very deliberately said that this vid is Torchwood’s ‘Handlebars’, rather than Jack’s, even though Jack is very much the focal point, and (to a great extent) Jack = Torchwood.
Because thinking about it, then Jack can also be seen as Torchwood's ultimate victim. They recruited him, made him into their agent, and then after a hundred years put him in charge... Looking at Suzie, we see what just a few years could do. Multiply it, and you get Jack, Torchwood's very own monster:
Ianto: You like to think you're a hero. But you're the biggest monster of all.
What all this made me think of was the very last scene in ‘Damage’ (AtS 5.11):
Spike: She's...one of us now. She's a monster.
Angel: She's an innocent victim.
Spike: So were we... once upon a time.
Angel: Once upon a time.
The thing is, that Jack’s capacity for monstrousness was hinted at right at the very beginning:
Jack: Two years of my life. No idea what I did. Your friend over there doesn't trust me. And for all I know... he's right not to.
Most of all, when it comes to CoE and Jack and the creation of monsters, these are the lines that come back to me - again from AtS:
Angel: It was art. The destruction of a human being."
We watched the destruction of Jack. And it was art.
hollywoodgrrlSummary: Jack Harkness. Torchwood's Pied Piper.
This is most definitely Torchwood’s ‘Handlebars’. And also the most hauntingly and harrowingly beautiful illustration of Jack’s “Began to like it. And look what I became.”
~~~
Requiem – The Show Must Go On. (Moulin Rouge) by
thrace_adams.Summary: Jack Must Go On.
Jack-centric CoE vid with a definite J/I slant (but don’t let that put anyone off). The vid absolutely does the song justice!
~~~
A Blip in Time by
di_br.Summary: Ianto has a few things he needs to say before the end.
A CoE Jack/Ianto vid using Ianto’s speech from ‘The Dead Line’. Absolutely gorgeous. Bring tissues.
‘All The Pretty Little Horses’ really made me think, so here is a slightly expanded version of my feedback (with all the flailing taken out):
I very deliberately said that this vid is Torchwood’s ‘Handlebars’, rather than Jack’s, even though Jack is very much the focal point, and (to a great extent) Jack = Torchwood.
Because thinking about it, then Jack can also be seen as Torchwood's ultimate victim. They recruited him, made him into their agent, and then after a hundred years put him in charge... Looking at Suzie, we see what just a few years could do. Multiply it, and you get Jack, Torchwood's very own monster:
Ianto: You like to think you're a hero. But you're the biggest monster of all.
What all this made me think of was the very last scene in ‘Damage’ (AtS 5.11):
Spike: She's...one of us now. She's a monster.
Angel: She's an innocent victim.
Spike: So were we... once upon a time.
Angel: Once upon a time.
The thing is, that Jack’s capacity for monstrousness was hinted at right at the very beginning:
Jack: Two years of my life. No idea what I did. Your friend over there doesn't trust me. And for all I know... he's right not to.
Most of all, when it comes to CoE and Jack and the creation of monsters, these are the lines that come back to me - again from AtS:
Angel: It was art. The destruction of a human being."
We watched the destruction of Jack. And it was art.
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My pleasure! CoE has inspired so many interesting conversations (and vids!) it's wonderful.
You could always learn.
True... but I barely have time for writing (and I have a gazillion fics all lined up) so I don't know when I'd actually get around to it. I'll just have to admire other people's work!