#av.mp4

i don't typically do this but i wanted to get into my thought process behind this one a little more in depth:

the initial inspiration for this one came after seeing this post by @sidgene. dog-coded speirs is always so brilliant to me, and i wanted to build on the idea of his being a sort of vengeful protector in the aftermath of grant getting shot, which is the angle i took for most of the video.

however!

i remember seeing a post some months back (that i can't for the life of me find anymore) that talked about speirs potentially feeling a bit of guilt over having been the one to give chuck the orders to go to the crossroads in the first place. and while obviously no one could have foreseen what was going to happen, guilt isn't necessarily a rational thing! and so i wanted to play with that idea a little bit, hence the clip of speirs giving the orders over the "who did that to you" lyric again.

i think chuck's face in that scene is also so good... he's obviously just upset in the moment cause it's annoying, but i think it's also got a really nice sense of foreboding to it as well (even if he doesn't know it lol). and then building further off this idea, the last scene of speirs walking away after not shooting the guy... i liked the bit of ambiguity there too, with both of them in the shot... speirs obviously blaming the guy who actually did the deed and shot him but maybe also internalizing some of it? is he also, in a sense, the fool that did that to grant? i just think it's a really fun idea to play around with and i hope that comes through in this video a little bit (it makes sense TO ME)!!