Fraser/every woman on the show! Hee, maybe you could consider this a bit of a constructed reality vid as well: Fraser as suave and sexy Lothario! Cutting a swath through the entire female population of Chicago! It’s fabulous and OMG hot, and it ends with a slashy implication, so, yay!
An older vid, remastered by Gwyn_r. Some of my favorite S1 and S2 scenes in here, and I’ve always liked the song.
This awesome vid makes me flail with delight. I can’t imagine the technical artistry required to make a shippy vid about two characters who share only a tiny amount of screentime, whose relationship is 95% fanon, but SD Wolfpup has pulled it off beautifully. As constructed reality, it makes perfect narrative sense. I love it!
Fraser and RayV friendship, Fraser/RayK, vid. I am very narrative-oriented when it comes to vids, and this one has a clear and engaging narrative, moving from Fraser “learning to fly” in Chicago with Vecchio, and then passing on his experience and knowledge to Kowalski. I think the change of POV works well here. Also, it doesn’t hurt that I adore Tom Petty. Nor that I wrote a F/K story with the same title, la la la.
Ensemble (Fraser, RayK, Maggie, Bob, Frannie, and Dief/Ante :-), G, vid. I can’t believe a vid is making me all misty-eyed, but this is just…awww. There are all sorts of nice moments, like Fraser and Bob walking together in rhythm to the song, and the Dief/Ante is just…awww. Follow the download instructions carefully. File is .mp4 - I played it in VLC.
Kind of an unrequited Ray/Fraser vibe going on here, a little sweet, a little sad. I like the way the clips of the Riv are used to anchor the beginning and end (and there’s a lovely section in the middle that she called ‘car porn’ when I commented on it!) and the use of successive clips with Ray and Fraser in the same relative positions, which underlines the way they’re always together.
Ray Vecchio/Irene Zuko. This is a vid based on the episode “Juliet is Bleeding”, and boy, does the song fit perfectly. I actually didn’t like the episode much - I found it too stiff, maybe, and too much like any cop show rather than good old quirky due South - and maybe that’s why I like this vid: it puts together all of the good parts, the strong emotion and the relationships and Ray Vecchio yay! And Irene Zuko! And angry glances between Ray and Frank!
Fraser/RayK, RayK/Stella, RayK/Luanne, RayK/Maggie, G, vid. The narrative here is very clear: Fraser watches Ray get involved with women who don’t love him like he does. I really liked how each section was about a different woman in Ray’s life - and poor Fraser, watching Ray run after them and get hurt.
Set to “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” performed by Robbie Williams and Rupert Everett; it’s a languid, big-band jazzy song, and the clips are relatively long, so the overall effect is very relaxed and smooth. The cutting isn’t necessarily to the beat, but the action within the clips is nicely synched to the beat, which I really liked. Maybe it’s overly literal, but I need narrative, so literal works for me.
Fraser/RayK/RayV-ish. [It’s more F/K and F/V, not really F/K/V. But the only way I can see it as gen is if I ignore the sequence of clips from Vault and MotB.]
Their summary: Fraser has two Rays…and boy, does he drive them nuts. Okay, I like the music, so that’s a start. But oh, man, this is so funny and well done. The clip choices are brilliant, particularly the mirroring of similar actions from both Ray seasons (the eyeglasses! the opening doors! the HANDING UP OUT OF UNDERGROUND YAY!). I thought the ‘pound note’ went a little obvious, but oh, the ‘don’t smoke’ with the gun KILLED ME. And only the briefest hint of Ms. Fraser with the ‘makeup’ line - nice avoidance of the obvious there. And the Fraser thumbs up mirrored by RayV, and the Fraser licking mirrored by RayK! I think this is my new favorite vid, ever. If you are in DS fandom don’t miss it.
Ensemble, due South crossover with Men With Brooms, humor. Curling! Beavers! CANADA! This is great, and the editorial comments are priceless.
Angst. The intercut footage of arctic scenes and polar bears is really cool.