vid - Ding! Dong! - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[kiki_miserychic]

vid title: Ding! Dong!
music: Sufjan Stevens
source: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
duration: 2:59
summary: Sarah Connor should be dead.
notes: Thanks to heyiya and cathexys, who are better betas than they think. Also, this is the most depressing Christmas vid ever.

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One mother rises
Pulling the sheets from the crib
All the disguises
Wandering stars, what she did
All the king's horns
All the king's men
Saddled and worn
Raise the dead
Holy, an infant
He came to raise up the dead

Wandering wise men
What did you bring to his bed?
Shapeless surprises
Incense to bring to the dead
Nothing is wrong
It's what she did
All the king's horns
And the king's men
Nothing is wrong
It's what she did
All the king's horns
And the king's men

Nothing is wrong
It's what she did
All the king's horns
Raise the dead
Nothing is wrong
It's what she did
All the king's horns

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's beautiful.

I'm missing some of the nuances because I'm about three or four episodes behind on TSCC (I plan to catch up over Christmas and definitely rewatch this vid when I am) but even so, you capture like...everything about Sarah's character so deftly and creepily.

It might be a Christmas song, but the messiah/mary parallels are so riddled through the show it actually just fits regardless of the time of year. And wow, this is an amazing song.

I think one of my favourite things about it is how it manages to blame Sarah for everything that's happened, while not blaming her at all? Is that even clear? "It's what she did." Which it is. All of this is because of what Sarah did. But nothing is wrong either because what else could she have done?

My personal response to it was also that I liked how John was kind of absent. I mean, he wasn't because everything Sarah does is about him. But he's the "infant" the future promise. He's going to come back and raise up the dead. But that's distant and abstract and he's not really real yet; he's just an idea Sarah has. That compels her into doing...what she did.

And I really need a TSCC icon...

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You'll enjoy the last few eps. I'm in love with how creepy Sufjan Stevens' Christmas album is.

So much of Sarah's world is influenced and dictated by her relationship with John, yet it was so easy to have John not in the vid unless I needed him.

And I really need a TSCC icon...
I need a good Sarah one.