Gift for grammarwoman (Babylon 5)

[fv_poster]

Title of vid: All Is Not Lost
Recipient: grammarwoman
Vidder: Aris Merquoni
Fandom: Babylon 5
Music: "All Is Not Lost" by OK Go
Summary: When they say all is lost / All is not lost
A look back at Babylon 5
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 02:43

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It's coming down, babe
Could be as bad as they talked about
It's coming down, babe
Could be before we can make it out

But when they say
That all is lost
All is not lost
All is not lost
But when they say
That all is lost
All is not lost
No, all is not lost at all

They could be right about it
They could be right in some crazy way
'Cause if they yell fire, well that's what we get
Yeah they yell fire, and that's what we get
So, yeah, it's coming, babe
Probably bad as they talked about
But just remember: when the tide rolls in
It can't be too long 'till it rolls back out

And when they say
That all is lost
All is not lost
All is not lost
But when they say
That all is lost
All is not lost
No all is not lost at all

And if they burn
If they burn this place down to the ground
What does it matter?
What does it matter?

So when they say
That all is lost
All is not lost
All is not lost
But when they say
That all is lost
All is not lost
No, all is not lost at all
No, all is not lost at all
No, all is not lost, not lost, not lost at all

Comments

[thingswithwings]

This is beautiful! It made me grin and made my heart clench. All the characters, doing their best, finding their way . . . and the ending! G'Kar hugging Garibaldi! Delenn putting on the mantle of office! This captured a lot of my feelings about the show. <3

[aris_tgd]

Yay! Thank you so much, especially because your B5 vid is ALSO AMAZING OMG. Yay show!

[icepixie]

Gosh, I seem to have something in my eye... *sniff*

That was amazing, and perfectly captured the spirit of the show. Wow. I want to comment more, but all I can think right now is, "THIS IS SO GREAT!"

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun making it, no matter how hard it was to put together. I'm glad you liked it!

[grammarwoman]

Oh! OH! Anonymous vidder, you have done a gorgeous job! I love this so much, I am sniffling right now.

You included so many arcs in here, the tragedies into triumphs, the losses and loves, the crew pulling through despite the odds. You've got a great collection of big and small moments, the journeys of the characters set to a fantastic piece of music. Ivanova's grim determination! The battle against the Shadows! The "here we come to save the day" entrance of the Rangers! Smiles and hugs and meals together - oh, show, you were so amazing.

Thank you so much! I am blessed by such a lovely and meaningful vid.

[aris_tgd]

Yay! I am so glad you liked it, thank you so much for the prompt. This show just has so much to it and I'm glad I was able to capture even a little piece of it.

[muccamukk]

Wonderful vid. It really highlights what I loved about the show. No matter how dark it got, all was not lost.

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!

[missbreese]

"But when they say that all is lost, all is not lost" - That rings so perfect and poetically true in this vid. Absolutely stunning to watch it be completely a brilliantly captured.

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! I had (frustrated at times) fun making it, and I'm glad you liked it!

[cereta]

Oh, this is lovely.

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much!

[yunitsa]

Oh, that was lovely! I totally got chills at "If they burn this place down to the ground", and then the kaleidoscope montage at the end was amazing.

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! Yes, that "burn this place down" was basically the first thing I knew I had to put together. I'm glad you liked it!

[kungfuwaynewho]

This was really beautiful, especially the last thirty seconds or so. Great work!

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! And yes, I'm particularly proud of the ending. I'm glad you liked it!

[beatrice_otter]

This is absolutely awesome--is it available for download? The song is perfect, and I loved the choice of clips!

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! And the signed link will hopefully be going up, but in case it doesn't, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3925619/AllIsNotLost-Aris-festivids2011.mp4 is the dropbox link (which has fixed a couple of the visual glitches in the kaleidoscope sequence.) I'm so glad you liked it!

[eruthros]

This is lovely!

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much!

[franzeska]

Aww. I love the sense of time in this.

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much!

[lamardeuse]

Oh, wow. One of the best things about Babylon 5 was the characters, and it's like you've brought them all back to me here. Lovely.

[aris_tgd]

Yay, thank you so much! I'm so glad the characters came through in the story. I'm glad you liked it!

[ladysorka]

This is just lovely. You've really captured the heart of the show.

[aris_tgd]

Wow, thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!

[swordznsorcery]

Wow. Fanastic work! Great use of the show's amazing visuals, and some very neat effects thrown in. Perfect ending, too.

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! I love the visuals for the show, and if it's not obvious I love starfuries an awful lot. I'm glad you liked it!

[actiaslunaris]

I like how you focused on all the characters so expertly and how you really get a sense of how the politics and war of the time affect them. The split-screens also worked really well with the music in that section, and I found the ending very up-lifting, to see how the characters made it through.

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! I really had a lot of fun putting this together. I'm so glad you liked it and that the character stories worked.

[bop_radar]

I never made it all the way through Babylon 5 but this is BEAUTIFUL.

[aris_tgd]

Thanks for watching even not having finished the source! I'm glad you liked it!

[colls]

great job! I really like how you've captured so much from the show in this vid

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! It was a lot of fun to put everything together. I'm glad you liked it!

[katewrites]

Oh, man, this is gorgeous. I love how it essentially captures all of the major relationships on the show in such a short vid and how the whole series can essentially be that mantra of "all is not lost." Really well done.

[aris_tgd]

Thank you so much! I'm glad all the little stories came through. I'm so glad you liked it.

[silentflux]

Such a gorgeous vid :) Well edited and such a great song for that series. And now... I need to pull out my dvds, lol

[travels_in_time]

This is a wonderful vid. Thanks for making it. Gonna have to pull out my B5 DVDs for a re-watch now...