New vid from Escapade
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gwynHere is the new Magnficent Seven vid from Escapade. It's 19.9 MB (I suppose we might as well not split hairs, and say 20) in QT, as usual. I just don't have the patience or time or energy to try to figure out some jazzy new cool supposedly superior codec that never looks much different to me than anything else, and if you have trouble with QT and want to bitch at me about it, just use the link to VLC on the same page as the vid is linked from -- VLC seems to play just about anything, and has a version for almost any newer OS and platform. It's the bomb.
In a Big Country by Big Country. Vin and Chris and the rest of the boys, in the landscape that surrounds them.
As always, it's yours also on shiny free DVD for a postage paid self addressed envelope. Details are on the vids page.
In a Big Country by Big Country. Vin and Chris and the rest of the boys, in the landscape that surrounds them.
As always, it's yours also on shiny free DVD for a postage paid self addressed envelope. Details are on the vids page.
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Date: 2005-03-03 03:27 am (UTC)You've caught me in that first flush of wild new-fandom enthusiasm. I've only seen 6 episodes so far and am desperate to see more canon, so I was thrilled to see scenes I hadn't yet watched or heard about. Oohh, Vin kneeling over an injured, shirtless Chris, Vin being shot off his horse (?) - how intriguing, what joys await me! I haven't yet seen the pilot, either, so I loved the extended footage of their first meeting.
In addition to the Chris/Vin scenes, I especially liked the beginning, with them appearing individually on the rocks and Nathan cocking his rifle. The clip of Chris walking briskly in his dark coat and then the Seven riding up and halting on a rise about 3/5ths the way through the vid really appealed to me and seemed to fit the music, too.
I really appreciated the way it was a relationship-focused vid in addition to the fantastic wider scenery/riding/time and place shots. For some reason I expected it to be more of a general M7 vid, and I felt like I got bonus material!
If my friend hadn't lent me about 10 episodes last night, I'd probably just re-watch this vid all day.
Thanks so much for making it available, especially at a time when you have many other things to worry about. I'm in that new-fandom the-world-is-wonderful place right now (in no small part thanks to your stories and vids), and if there was any way I could siphon off some of that and send it to you, I would. Take care.
(More to follow on Showdown at Big Sky, too - another fantastic song choice for the fandom.)
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Date: 2005-03-03 06:05 pm (UTC)And you've seen Showdown! Whee! So few people have becuase it's only on tape. It's my favorite of our M7 vids. Jo and I are thinking about remastering it with the new Showtime footage.
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Date: 2005-03-04 06:01 am (UTC)Hmm, so Vin belongs to the open country more than the others, who are more people of the town? I need to see more eps to really get this sense from the show itself, though it's certainly coming through in the fanfic I've read so far.
I did see enough yesterday to figure out that it wasn't Vin getting shot off his horse - that was one of the bad guys!
Showdown was until recently one of my "interesting, but not-my-fandom, so do other useful things like clean the house" vids on the MC5 tape. All of a sudden it's my No.1 favourite, rewind-and-rewatch vid on the tape. Funny how that happens!
(I'm embarrassed to note that I used the subjunctive incorrectly in my earlier comment!)
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Date: 2005-03-04 07:47 pm (UTC)He has a very elemental quality about him, doesn't talk much, pays careful attention to things, is totally fearless. He's always portrayed as the girl in the pairing in fanfic, which makes me nuts, because his strength is indisputable. But gosh, he has long hair! Which was so not uncommon back then.
The funny thing about thinking Vin was shot off his horse -- in the show, he is only ever injured once. Sort of almost a second time in Wagon Train, but it's only in the episode Lady Killers that he ever gets wounded. Yet in fanfic, he's always, always the one who gets shot or stabbed or tortured or whatever. I'm just as guilty as anyone, I guess it's more fun to cause him harm because he's so tough otherwise.
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Date: 2005-03-05 01:23 pm (UTC)I read Don't Get Much today, after watching Wagon Train last night, and was interested in and moved by how you portrayed him:
Chris had the same notion of Vin that Charlotte had -- that he was wild and woolly, that he would never stay in one place or keep to one person. When all that happened, Vin hadn't understood he wasn't that kind of man.
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He'd never thought to be tied to land, not in his wildest dreams, but he was tied to Chris and if this was where he wanted to be, then the land it was.
I loved the story and will send some proper feedback after I've read it a few more times. I am so glad you wrote C/V Old West - it seems to be a fairly rare commodity!
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Date: 2005-03-15 01:09 pm (UTC)Know thy canon!