vid tricks

[deird_lj]

Is it just me, or does anyone else hate vids that trick you?


I was watching a Spuffy vid recently, and stopped halfway through in digust, because, mid-vid, Buffy told Spike she loved him.

Except this wasn't last-minute fiery-hands I-love-you - this was sitting at a table and looking up seriously to say I love you.
Because they'd stolen the Buffy-and-Angel "I love you" and pretended that Buffy was saying it to Spike instead!

I just can't stand it. Even if you can't, right then, see what the character's looking at, they were looking at something particular in the original clip, and changing it is just wrong.


So, is it just me?

Comments

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

It's just you. :-)

I mean, I've created a Buffy/Faith sex scene in a vid myself purely by intercutting clips of Buffy and Faith having sex with other people so it looks like they're with each other instead. And I stole that idea from someone else's vid where it was Buffy/Willow, but the same concept. I think it's rather clever.

I don't think it would work if it were a really iconic scene for a character, though, thet everybody watching would instantly recognise. You couldn't do the burning-hands scene from Chosen and make believe it was Buffy and Angel. But some random clip? No problem.

For that matter, I've used a clip of Eliza from 'Tru Calling' in a Faith vid before now...