vid: what you're waiting for [How I Met Your Mother]

[raven]

So, I finally watched my way through to the end of How I Met Your Mother, now that there's an alternate ending to take the edge of my rage, but, er. Er, I have never been so angry about anything I made a vid to express it before. (I may yet make an actual post about this, in actual words, that are not just "aaaaargh", but we'll see.) I've also never made a vid for a single character before, nor for something with less than eleven seasons of source. Er.

Anyway: this is a a vid in praise of Tracy McConnell, perfect beautiful dorky musician economist Tracy, who deserved so much more than she got. (It is a great disappointment to me that I could not fit any of Tracy's paintings of robots doing track and field into this vid. I love her so much.)

[NB re: spoilers - for the last season of How I Met Your Mother (er, if you don't want to know who the mother is, look away a couple of paragraphs ago!), but not the actual ending.]

[vid] what you're waiting for
by Raven
In exactly forty-five days from now, you and I are going to meet, and we're going to fall in love.

music: "What Are You Waiting For", Karine Polwart, from Faultlines
content notes: none
password to stream: umbrella / download from mediafire, 50MB

what you're waiting for from Raven on Vimeo

lyrics:

You've been waiting for the wind to change direction
Waiting for the sun to shine
You've been waiting for a new connection
But you're walking on the same old line
You've been waiting so long
How can you wait a single minute more?
You've been waiting so long
you just don't know what you are waiting for

You've been wishing for a gentle hand to guide you
For a heavenly sign
You've been wishing for a spark to burn inside you
For a little bit more time
You've been wishing so hard
How can you now wish for any more?
You've been wishing so hard
you just don't know what you are wishing for

Some say the good things come to all those who wait
Then again they might not come at all

Some say the good things come to all those who wait
Then again they might not come at all

Also, if you're looking for the alternate ending, which I now subscribe to utterly and completely, here it is. One of the many things I love about it is that it has no new footage - which is to say it is, itself, a vid! - and also Alyson Hannigan hasn't aged in twenty years, and I'm gonna end up making the 1000-word post on my thoughts and feelings about this, aren't I.

Comments

[nostalgia]

It is weird how I have heard so much about this show's ending and yet I still know nothing and have never actually seen an episode of it.

[such_heights]

Ahhhhh, the final version is so lovely. The yellow umbrella is such a gorgeous motif, used beautifully here. I have all these Tracy feels and have never seen the show! <3

[isagel]

This is so lovely! I adore the use of the yellow umbrella!

[china_shop]

Oh, that's gorgeous! (I didn't watch the last few seasons, but I read about the ending, and I understand your rage.)

[soupytwist]

Oh, how gorgeous.

I haven't seen the finale, because I heard Terrible Things before I did, but this is so clearly a step towards making it right. Tracy has a voice in this, a meaning and a life of her own that matters, and I love it.

(Also you did some fucking gorgeous things with movement here - the way the clips move across the screen to the music, the way you underlined the beat with the cutting... fantastic.)

[odessie]

Aww, this is so lovely, all the feels. <3 I adored Tracy to pieces and this vid reminds me of all the reasons why. (Ending, what ending?)

[livrelibre]

I don't even watch HIMYM and thought this was adorbs and my gf, who did, thought it was sweet too!

[jb_slasher]

I just wanted to say that this vid tugged at my heartstrings. I've never actually met The Mother (I've only seen some episodes from the earlier seasons) but I like her so much just from watching your vid and the alternate ending. D'awww! <3

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Oh hey! I don't know if you have the energy for such things, but Karine Polwart is playing a solo gig in London on Thursday. I would go but I'll be on the train back down from the Highlands.

[lauds.livejournal.com]

ah, this was LOVELY. thank youuuu. (yet another female character that leaves me going YOU DESERVED SO MUCH BETTERRRR)<3

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

1) This vid was excellent.

2) AUGH. I just watched the entire last season last weekend and...it was SO TERRIBLE at the end. I was so mad I wanted to throw things at my computer, but I didn't want to break my computer. It was like the show decided to completely undo everything it spent a ridiculous number of seasons doing, making the narrative pointless. Not to mention that the mother was so cool and so short-shifted.

3) I started a Buffy rewatch, a bit before watching the final season of HIMYM. It was...surreal going back and forth between first season Willow Rosenburg and last season Lily Aldrin.

[tau_sigma]

I have not yet watched the vid - downloading! - but thought you might like to know that the mediafire link goes to a (non-password protected) viewing page instead of directly to the download link.

(Also <3 <3 <3 Tracy. This weekend, we need to have the FEELS about Tracy, yes?)