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

[swsa.livejournal.com]

It's not just you. I get annoyed when I even see Spuffy manips that I know are using B/A photos, or vice versa. I think it's because I'm so much more of a canon person than much of fandom. If I can't find enough to support my ship in canon, then I wouldn't ship them in the first place, you know? I can sort of see doing this if you're doing a total AU with a couple who frankly don't have much of anything in canon to use? But I always feel like swapping B/S, B/R, B/A scenes around is CHEATING. Hee. C'mon, all three have plenty of their own material to use.