Yay, you liked it! I thought you would, but I had this fear for a long while that you and the other 'usual suspects' might be the only people to watch it. Not that I would have minded much, but the comments above from complete fandom strangers have been a real balm to my fannish soul.
I think it would be polite and truthful to say that I made it for myself, but once I committed to the idea of it, you would be surprised how much I wanted to be fair in the montage. Especially to Voyager fans. I rewatched quite a few episodes. I felt like I couldn't do it unless I found good things to say about Voyager, and I think I did. If nothing else I came away with a renewed appreciation for the episodes on Voyager I thought were successful.
The montage was the BANE of my existence because I would have to watch an episode to select maybe three seconds of it for the video. Making it a really slow process, and halfway through I loathed that I had bit all of it off. Except that by the end I was really sad that I had such limited time in the bridge of the song - I wanted Vic Fontaine, and Nog's Leg. I wanted Guinan in her time traveling days, and Beverly and Wesley aren't in it let alone Pulaski, and the O'Brien family picnic, and Neelix and Kes...
Odo and Kira are only in it once, even! There's no crazy eyed Gowron, or Dukat, or Weyoun. I cut a bit with Seska and Chakotay.
So yeah. It broke my heart a number of times to make it, especially playing triage with the montage. I wish there could be so much more.
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I think it would be polite and truthful to say that I made it for myself, but once I committed to the idea of it, you would be surprised how much I wanted to be fair in the montage. Especially to Voyager fans. I rewatched quite a few episodes. I felt like I couldn't do it unless I found good things to say about Voyager, and I think I did. If nothing else I came away with a renewed appreciation for the episodes on Voyager I thought were successful.
The montage was the BANE of my existence because I would have to watch an episode to select maybe three seconds of it for the video. Making it a really slow process, and halfway through I loathed that I had bit all of it off. Except that by the end I was really sad that I had such limited time in the bridge of the song - I wanted Vic Fontaine, and Nog's Leg. I wanted Guinan in her time traveling days, and Beverly and Wesley aren't in it let alone Pulaski, and the O'Brien family picnic, and Neelix and Kes...
Odo and Kira are only in it once, even! There's no crazy eyed Gowron, or Dukat, or Weyoun. I cut a bit with Seska and Chakotay.
So yeah. It broke my heart a number of times to make it, especially playing triage with the montage. I wish there could be so much more.