Andraste

After a fifth season that was shaky in many ways, a finale that was good in its own right and brought closure to what went before. I could be writing about either Merlin or Fringe, but it's actually Fringe today *g*.

And in five years, I never did learn not to eat in front of this show. I mean, you would think that after the very first melting-jaws-on-a-plane scene I would have realised that there were going to be plenty of gross-out moments, but I never really remembered it was a bad idea.

( Because it's cool! )

Because we have just over two week until the Vividcon deadline, I have been vidding. (Well, grabbing clips. Two weeks is loads of time to turn a pile of random footage into a vid, right?) As I was saying to lokisrose.livejournal.com last night, whenever I have a new idea for a vid I add it to The List. It deserves capitalisation, because is a big list. At my current rate of production, it will take me approximately sixty-eight years to finish everything if I never have a new idea.

Yet despite containing more material than I could ever actually produce, the list is not really long enough. Because far more annoying than the songs I will never get around to vidding are the vids that exist in my head without a song attached. At least when I have a song I know why I'm not making the vid - I'm waiting on more source, or I don't have the whole thing on DVD, or someone else vidded the song and now I can't decide if I should go ahead or not. (This is what happened to the third part of my Torchwood series.) Not having music is somehow far more frustrating - sitting on half an idea seems worse than sitting on a whole one.

Things I have long wanted to make include:

- A multifandom drool vid. That consists of something other than clips of Patrick Stewart wearing as few clothes as possible. (OK, that would probably be a pretty good drool vid too. But either way, I don't have a song.)

- A House vid about Foreman. I've had the general outline of this in my mind since Season Four, and I even have some specific clips picked out. As of Season Eight, I know how I want it to end. But no song!

- A Fringe vid about Walter. Or, really, any Fringe vid at all. I can't understand how I have four perfectly viable vid idea for Alias that I've yet to execute, six for Heroes that I'll probably never make, more than a dozen for Doctor Who, and zero for Fringe.

I almost never find vid songs; they almost always find me. And I have no idea how one speeds that process along. (So, yes, if you have a brilliant song idea for any of the above things, throw it over here. Who knows, maybe something will be sparked.)

I've been a fan of Fringe since the pilot leaked online, but it's come to my attention that a lot more people around my journalling services are watching it now, so maybe I should actually post about it. I only caught up on the Season Two finale yesterday, as I completely lost track of the show when it went on hiatus. I'm kind of glad I have a slightly shorter and thus less painful wait until Season Three.

Anyway, it made me happy, not least because my OTP were finally on screen at the same time! Is anyone in this universe or the next surprised that I've 'shipped William/Walter since Walter started talking about his old friend back in Season One, long before the mysterious Dr. Bell appeared on screen? And canon has done nothing to dissuade my 'shipping since.

( Spoilers for the finale. )