Fandom Vid/Character pairings: Doctor Who, BTVS, OUAT, & GoT Character/Vid pairings Part II

I rather enjoyed doing that last post and apparently I have time on my hands. One of the side-effects of being laid up with a broken foot - is you do have a lot of time on your hands.

An aside on vids - I can't do them myself, so I'm relying on people who have created their own and posted to You Tube, the vid usually states who it is by. Also the trick of a good vid and music match-up is to catch the essence of a character or match-up that explains to someone else what you loved or see in them. What pricked your interest.

All of the below vids have spoilers. I have them arranged by tv series/fandom:

1. Doctor Who

I've the perfect song for Doctor Who and River Song pairing..."Time After Time by Cyndie Lauper" - although I prefer a different version of the song.

( This contains spoilers for New Doctor Who S4-S6 )

10th Doctor Who - "It's My Life" - I liked this video best and the song has a nice ironic twist for this lyric: "It's my Life, it's now or never, I'm not going to live forever..."
But it has the joi de vivre of the companions that join the doctor. Or expresses why they do it.

( contains spoilers for Doctor Who Seasons 1-4 or all of 10's arc )

2) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series

* Xander Harris - I don't know what the song is here, but it actually works, and this is the only vid I could find that fit him and the only song...

( contains spoilers for Buffy S1-7 )

What I loved most about Xander was his quips. The character made me laugh. Whedon infused Xander with his quippy self-deprecating charm.

Weirdly there's more Xander/Buffy, Xander/Giles (really? okaay. I get Xander/Spike and even Xander/Angel, but Xander/Giles??), Xander/Dawn (doesn't work for me...but to each their own),
Xander/ Willow (now that one I actually shipped briefly), Xander/Anya...

I find one for Xander/Cordy that I think works better for Xander/Anya - "The Story of US"

* Darla - found the following intense vid to "Sea Lion Woman" by Fiest:

( contains spoilers for Angel the Series 1-5 )

This works so well, with the words and the rhythm - it has that teasing deceptiveness that was at the heart of Darla. When I heard the song - I admittedly thought, Darla.

* Angelus - to the song "Dragula by Rob Zombie":

( contains spoilers for both Buffy and Angel )

* And oh dear, someone actually did a Fanged Four vid to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance - that's too perfect:

( spoilers for Buffy and Angel )

* Spike and Angel to "They Can't Take That Away From Me"...and if you are like me you may well mistake the line..."we may never meet again on the bumpy road of life" to "we may never meet again on the buffy road of life."

( spoilers for Angel S5 mainly )

3. Game of Thrones:

The following are vids for Jamie Lannister, which are quite good and contain spoilers through S3 of the television series. But no book spoilers.

* ( Jamie Lannister - Everybody Loves Me )

The song is ironic particularly in how the vid pairs with it. Works brilliantly.

*( Jamie Lannister - There are No Men Like Me )

And finally You Won't Forget My Name

* ( Kingslayer )

I'm clearly a fan of tortured characters.

Here's a Tyrion Lannister vid - and the only one I could find with a song...and it is fittingly to The Raines of Castamere.

( spoilers through S3 )

Weirdly I think the song fits Tyrion better, due to the heightened irony.

And here's Ayra:
( spoilers through S3 )

5) OUAT

All of these vids have major plot spoilers through S2. Nothing past S2.

* Emma/Neal - this does have spoilers for S2:

( Emma and Neal - Poison and Wine, or I Don't Love You, But I'll Always Will )

Emma
( spoilers for S2 and emphasizes the feeling that she no longer knows where she stands or what is real )

This is a good video and song pairing for Regina to Let it Rock:

( spoilers of course )

Finally found a decent and not too sappy Henry+Emma video...that fits how I see their relationship to I'll Save the World
( focuses on their friendship and bonding, as well as the parental vibe )

I like this vid, because it is a tad subversive gender wise.

Finally...the sexy ones:

* Hook to the song For Your Entertainment

( spoilers )

Fitting, because he literally is there for our entertainment.

*Rumplestilskin to the song "Remedy" - the lyrics quite fit the tortured soul that is Rumple:
( Remedy )

And two interesting takes on the Cora/Rumple relationship, the first to the song "Tragedy" and the second to the Lady Gaga Song Love Game, which is just a tad racy.
Both of these have spoilers galore for season 2.

a) ( Rumple and Cora - Tragedy or Don't Call This Love )

b)( Rumple and Cora- Love Game )

Both get across their twisted and tragic relationship.

Add your own or link to your own favorites.

TV Slut - Summer TV Report

After a fairly quiet day, watching fireworks on tv, while I listen to them bang outside my apartment every five minutes.

Summer Television so far is somewhat tepid or limpid.

* Siberia - on NBC on Monday night's at 10 pm. This is a "fake" reality series allegedly set in Siberia, Russia. 19 contestants are sent to Siberia, Russia in a Survivor style series. There's no rules or voting. They have to travel to a remote camp that was abandoned in 1908, which the filmmakers have restored in its entirety. The original settlers had disappeared without a trace. Before the end of the first episode, one of the contestants is summarily killed by something creepy in the woods. We don't see it. We just see the contestant and cameraman racing away from it. We also don't see what it does to them, we're just told Tommy has met with a fatal accident away from camp. The remaining contestants are told they can either stay and fight for the $500,000 or leave now and get $5,000 each for their troubles. There will be no support. If they want to leave they go through the archway and push a red panic button which will send a helicopter taking them home. Otherwise they are stuck out there for the duration. It feels a bit like Blair Witch Project by way of Cabin in the Woods, except done as a reality series.

It unfortunately has all the things you've come to expect from reality shows - the producers go out of their way to suck you into their world. We have the confessionals, documentary style filmmaking, interviews and confessionals. Watching the thing just reminded me of why I hate these types of series. But the idea is interesting. I'd wondered how long it would take for someone to come up with the idea of a "ten little indians style" fake reality drama, where each week a new contestant is killed off.

* Crossing Lines on NBC on Sunday nights fairs a bit better. This is the French/American co-production about an International Crime Solving Unit - headed by a French Cop and an American Detective, it stars Donald Sutherland in a supporting role. And I just realized that Sutherland mumbles a lot.

The series is your typical procedural, with the individual lives of the cops on the team as the B storyline. The main focus is on the American Detective - who is crippled from a deadly interaction with a kidnapper years prior, and is portrayed by a great character. I mainly watching it for him.

* Under the Dome - typical Stephen King fare. If you've seen Tommy Knockers, The Stand, or Storm of the Century - you've seen this tale before and probably can predict what will happen next. The series is being headed by Brian K. Vaughn...so there is promise.
But so far the characterizations feel uneven and a bit cardboard. So far the only standouts are Samantha Mathis as a lesbian psychologist and Dean Norris (from Breaking Bad) as Big Jim, the town's somewhat shady leader and wannabe mayor. Of course, I'm only two episodes into it. There's the stereotypical King characterizations...which seem to populate most of his stories now: 1) The perky journalist who stumbles onto more than she wants to know, 2) the magical kids who figure out there's more going on - something of a paranormal or exterestial nature, 3) the psycho teen who after the fifth time he pops up in a story, you think, okay bored now, kill him already, 4) the girl who wants to get the hell out of dodge, but had the misfortune to be the fixation of the psycho, 5) the grifter with the heart of gold.

Instead of splitting the story into two halves - part in the town under the dome, and part in the area outside of the town...which would have been different, Vaughn and King choose the traditional path - focusing on the small town under pressure...which has unfortunately been overdone.

There's a few new one's popping up in July...that may be better. Plus the returns of some other series. Right now the best summer series is weirdly Falling Skies and Defiance.