"It's way past time / for one last try..."
Nora's older brother; "Uncle Saul" to most of the characters on this series. Ron Rifkin's portrayal of Saul Holden was quite unique.
(I recommend you turn OFF the Closed Captions in this video & focus only on the Open Captions text. Listen for the rest of the voiceovers. If you can't understand the voiceovers, maybe watch this Unlisted copy with no text burned into the render of the video, no open caption text on screen -- it has ALL of the voiceovers transcribed into the closed captions over there: • NO TEXT VERSION (no op... )
Characters in their late 60's and early 70's do not usually get to have such rich, deep character arcs explored, but Saul is one such exception. Especially when looking at LGBTQ+ representation on TV, to have any character who isn't straight be older than their 40's is so exceedingly rare.
Brothers & Sisters has been off the air for over 12 years now after the show (Brothers & Sisters) ran for 5 years-from September 2006 until May 2011. I started vidding it those final 2 years it was airing, having gotten deeply sucked into it during season 4. It really is one of my favorite shows of all time that's stood the test of time for me, and continues to be very rewatchable and I get different things out of it each time I do.
I don't remember for sure when it first crossed my mind that this song would fit a Saul character study really well, but I remember listening to this song from a Smallville soundtrack CD (one of "The Talon mixes" lol), and all those lyrics about being "on the outside looking in" just screamed Saul's story to me, the emphasized way "alone" is sung, the line I chose for the title, "all of the dreams of yesterday", and all the repeated times "it's way past time" comes up. It just. I've had this song attached to Saul in my head for ~a decade.
The song ("Goodbye Again" by Vertical Horizon) is what inspired me to vid Saul, and I'm so glad it did.
Saul, as far as I can tell, has absolutely NO fanvideos on RU-vid about him, at least currently, not about him and shipping him with Jonathan, not about his wonderful sibling dynamic with Nora, nothing with Saul warranting being in the title. There are scenes from the show uploaded to RU-vid but that's all I could find.
I have vidded Saul in my ensemble/full series tributes which were edited around 2009 and 2011 I think, see this "Brothers & Sisters" playlist of all of my vidding of the show: • Brothers & Sisters (20...
And somewhat more recently, I featured a fair amount of Saul in this vid of mine (7 different scenes of his), which I edited 5.5 years ago in 2016:
• Multi-Fandom Angst, Fa...
(all of these times above vidding the show before were when my username was still "luvtheheaven" or some variation like "luvtheheaven5" -- I've since changed my RU-vid name to VioletEmerald.)
And then two years ago in this collab I hosted, I vidded a fair amount of Saul's s2 coming out journey, using 5 of his scenes:
• 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ Characters...
So I've been building up SLOWLY over the past idk 6 years towards eventually actually making this vid, I guess. I rewatched the show show starting in May of this year & started taking notes on Saul related scenes. Originally I was going to make a general series tribute first, & this vid maybe 2nd. I have a handful of ideas and I did start and vid a minute or so of another B&S vid idea. But the Saul video became my priority at some point along the way.
I was so desperate to capture and do justice to his journey in a way that's never been done before. I really hope you all like it!
Saul is a part of all these character's lives, leading the toasts the majority of the time-deciding to be the one to call a toast, I love that detail of his characterization, especially since as a trained Celebrant myself I've grown extra fond of the art of that simple ritual (even though I personally don't drink alcohol lol), and other characterization moments I love too, like that he likes to call the women & girls in the family "sweetheart" a fair amount, and all of them "kiddo" a lot... there were SO many things I ran out of room in the fanvideo to include.
SO many powerful potential quotes. I wanted to do my best to include the MOST important ones, a true exercise in prioritization. I did purposefully, as much as felt possible/reasonable to do, avoid vidding the same scenes I already vidded those two other times in the past few years (linked to in my description) that I focused on Saul in my vidding, wanted to vid different Saul things each time I vid him I guess to keep it fresh and not feeling redundant even for myself/my own sake.
I'm definitely hoping to vid this show more. I am sorta brainstorming potential songs for Saul/Jonathan, Saul&Nora, Robert&Kevin, Nora&Kitty, etc if anyone has ideas for songs PLEASE let me know!
Check the pinned comment for more of my thoughts! #fanvidfeed
7 сен 2024