Featured Article: Marble House
This week's Featured Article is focused on Hollywoodgrrl's popular and widely debated fan video “Marble House” from the Doctor Who fandom, originally shown at 2009 Vividcon.
Reviewers praise the technical skill that Hollywoodgrrl employed such as the montage moments within the video to further the story being depicted surrounding the unintended implications The Doctor had in World War I through his actions; while others within the Live Journal community of Vid Commentary question the use of real World War I footage within the video.
The video is still available on Vimeo for viewing as well as the extended commentary for the rationale behind the making of “Marble House” in the LJ Vid Commentary community. This video is settled between the eight and ninth episode of the third season of Dr. Who featuring the Tenth Doctor – played by David Tennet. The musical score of the video featuring the song by the same name as the title of the video, “Marble House” by The Knife, has lyrics that invoke the imagery of a beautiful but cold home and uses the grungy alternative music sound to create a dark ambiance to overlay these relationships. This song being carefully picked by Hollywoodgrrl to describe the relationship felt between Martha Jones and the Time Lord in these episodes as well as the destruction that is left behind not just between the two of them but on the world
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