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Title: Happy Now?
Music Title & Artist: "Hope You're Happy Now," The Sounds
Vidder: franzeska / franzeska
Pairing or Character: Sally Donovan
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: AO3 (better streaming); Critical Commons (vidder's commentary)
Vidder's Summary: A Defense of a Hated Character

Reccer's Comments: Oh, Sally Donovan! No matter how much the show invites us to hate her, I'm always uncomfortably aware that I -- and presumably a good chunk of the fandom -- am a Sally Donovan, just one of the many trying our damnedest to do our jobs without the special preference or allowances that comes of being a personal friend of the boss. I love this vid for being firmly committed to Sally's point-of-view, as well as to the proposition that her pov is reasonable.

I also admire the vid from a purely technical standpoint: the show gave us very little footage of Sally (this was made after S2, without the benefit of the additional S3 footage), and franzeska demonstrates just how well such scant pickings can be used. Watching this vid was a revelation, in terms of my understanding of how little footage one really needs to make a strong vid, and what kinds of games might be played to make every bit of that footage count.