fandomania | VID: There'll Always Be Closing Night (Gen, PG-13) (Reply)

One thing I've picked up in vidding over the last year or so is that inspiration comes from the oddest places. I'd been sorting through my itunes, looking for songs about doom and tragedy and loss, and I remembered to songs that have extremely perky, fun tunes - but which are angsty in their lyrical cores. One is "Hell" from the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and the other is "Intermission" from the Scissor Sisters. It's disarming and charming, because you spend most of the song humming along with the catchiness and then, it just hits you, full throttle in the stomach.

So, I vidded to it.

Title: There'll Always Be Closing Night

Song: Intermission

Artist: Scissor Sisters

Rating: PG-13 for violence

Characters: Winchesters and demons, mostly

Spoilers: Supernatural Season Three through 3.16. In other words, do not watch this until you have seen the Season Three finale.

Summary: Dean's deal is coming due and as the song says, "there's never gonna be an intermission, but there'll always be closing night."

Download the QuickTime version on MegaUpload or watch it on YouTube or ( + at the fake-cut. )

Notes: I started working on this just after 3.15 aired, because at that point, I was hoping - yes, really hoping! - that Sam wouldn't be able to fully break the deal, and Dean would go to hell, because the potential character development and storylines from that sort of a plot twist are just fraught with such lovely potential!

I almost posted it the Tuesday before 3.16 aired, but the very sensible

deirdre_c suggested I wait. If you're curious about the version I finished between 3.15 and 3.16, you can download it here.

I know the melody for the song is relatively jaunty and perky, but the lyrics are angst-ridden, and I loved the contrast between the two, because it is almost mirrored by the angst in Dean's eyes and the smile on his face as the clock strikes midnight when his Deal is due - he's still trying to be optimistic even though he knows how impossible that must be.

But me? I'm still so optimistic about the stories we're going to get next season. We'll have Dean back in some way, shape or form (even if Sammy doesn't know it yet).

Right?