Just a guess... Pohsyb?
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Any particular reason you choose two songs from Joss Whedon series to use as a soundtrack? Besides their lyrics and being somewhat appropriate?
Reason I'm asking was when 'ko used the piece from the last episode of B5 for her farewell to the game video, it already had been associated with great sadness of letting go of something that's been with you for years with me, even though I hadn't heard that piece or watched that episode in over 10 years, the connection was still there. The same could be said with your two selections, invoking a preexisting emotional response due to the context when we first heard them.
Okay, I'm going to be lynched here, but I didn't like the use of B5's "Sleeping in Light" in Samuraiko's video. Babylon 5's finale showed the station being decommissioned after it had become obsolete, after achieving all the goals it set out to do, just to prevent it from being taken over/used by rogue forces that would soil its history. It was a
completely different type of ending than the one COH got, with the plug pulled at its prime and not even given a proper ending event.
So in that case, the association of the song with B5 actually played against the video for me. It didn't fit, at all.
Now for the songs I picked; the episode of Dollhouse that features Remains is not an ending. It's set after the world's gone to hell, sure, and odds are all against the characters. But it's not the end; people are still fighting in the ruins of the world to try to save it. I felt the theme of the episode matched the current situation of COH, not just the song.
I actually haven't watched all of Buffy, and I didn't like the episode "Where do we go from here?" came from. I don't even remember much other than it being the closing song of the episode, so I picked it pretty much for the lyrics only. Very much like I'd pick "Is there anybody out there?" by Pink Floyd if I were showing an isolated hero trying to reach out.
Both songs being from Whedon series is arguably coincidence, but I find that Whedon is pretty good at the sort of emotion I wanted to generate with this video.
Another reason I picked those songs is copyright issues. I avoid using copyrighted songs because then YouTube throws a fit and won't let mobile users see it. Songs from TV series that were not commercially released tend to fare better, and in fact, "Remains" is not picked up by their content detection at all; that's why I decided to use it back in November. Unfortunately, I didn't check "Where do we go from here?" and so I was unpleasantly surprised to see the video being blocked specifically for that song. If I had known, I might have tried harder to find a fitting song that didn't trigger YouTube's content filters.
