House/Stacy vid

[laene_lif]

I, uh, finished that video I mentioned earlier.

Title: A Broken Hallelujah
Song: "Hallelujah" - Rufus Wainwright
Subject: House, House/Stacy... and the piano... and angst
Download: YouSendIt
Watch: YouTube

I hope it's not too maudlin. Just, sometimes there are those moods.

It's a really pretty song and ever since Emily and Lorrae put it on that mix-cd, I haven't been able to stop listening to it, so I had to make a video for it.

Plus it does fit House quite nicely. Allows for lots of piano-playing and brooding. This video probably also was inspired by reading namasteyoga's recently finished Eight Days, Eight Months (highly recommended). Also from re-reading (heck, let's just turn this into a fic-rec post!) Muse by pwcorgigirl and Hiding by sy_dedalus.

It's funny that I for some reason have a big weakness for House/Stacy stuff, when the majority of the fandom cannot stand her. Shrug. I think I just have a thing for angst and backstories in general. Because my other favorite subjects in House fanfiction are probably House and his parents, and Wilson and his brother.

Anyway, I think this might be, of the vids I've done, the one that's come out most like what I hoped it would.

Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was lovely! Very nicely done, and it was interesting to see how often House's expressions softened around her.

Stacy does attract strong feelings, but I think it's because House's vulnerability also evokes strong feelings in people. Had she not come along, the bitter, wounded person we see now would not exist. He was aiming for a "live whole or die now" proposition in Three Stories, and what she did assured he'd live but crippled him. He's never gotten over it, and what he does to deal with it, or how he fails to deal with it, have defined him as a character.

That said, she was the great love of his life, and that alone makes her endlessly fascinating.

Thanks for the rec of "Muse." I am honored!

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hello! Just thought I'd drop by and say I friended you as well - I've thought about it, but I'm often a bit hesitant to just friend randomly :)

My personal problem with Stacy is not so much the character, but the actress who played her. I just didn't feel that connection with House that I'd envisaged - Hugh did his very best to convey all the emotion that was there, as amply displayed in your vid, but her lack of facial expression (IMO) drove me insane. I don't have any problems with the decison about House's leg, etc. Other than that, I just avoid her on general principles because it's het, and I've always been about the slash :)

[woodrosegirl.livejournal.com]

I've already posted about how much I love your vid!

Just thought I'd add a random 2 cents about Stacy....I had a big ramble in my head about the lack of emotion she conveyed. (esp. Three Stories) and I came to the conclusion (And I've seen A LOT of Sela Wards work)and she is a great actress...but I think a lot of people think she's (Stacy) "heartless" or "unemotional" because she doesn't do a lot of crying...but if you watch that scene in Three Stories again ("Would you cut off your leg to save my life") yeah..she doesn't cry...but if you listen to her voice and look at her eyes all the emotion is totally there...and IMO her and House are very very strong people...who wouldn't sit there crying..and she's just trying to hold the tears back and so is House. Plus in the scene on the roof in "Need to Know" there is one (brilliant) solitary tear that slips out..and its just beautiful.

Stacy isn't weeping all the time because she's not like that...she's a very strong woman and the character doesn't call for that. It would be odd if her and House both sat crying all the time.

Those fics are awesome... I read them a while ago and I'm glad you share the same view! :)