Warning: this isn't all positive, but I didn't want to potentially mess up your average and earn everlasting hatred for all eternity.
Strangely, I thought it was well-edited, I really liked the match of anime to song (I've never seen GW, but the visuals really fit), but I just didn't care for it. In parts, especially near the beginning, the cuts seemed too fast - the song never seemed that fast to me, but the cuts are going bangbangbangbangbang like I'd expect from a really upbeat song. They're well-done cuts, but it just throws me off.
There were parts where I did like the editing entirely - for some reason, the first part of the army's narration ("Peron is a fool, breaking every taboo...") was more what I'd expect from a song of this speed. But again, I'm an old fuddy-duddy and tend to go for lightly edited vids.
I'm also not fond of that whole "OMG girls are all stupid sluts getting in the way of the troo hott manwuv" bit so common in yaoi fandom, but that's also a matter of personal preference. (and as could be seen from my own profile, I'm in no way anti-yaoi... just anti-misogyny.) At least from the visuals, Relena seemed pretty interesting, not at all a vapid little slut. 'Course, I've never seen the series, as I said, but it was a strange juxtaposition to have a character who looks pretty cool and be expected by the vid to hate her guts.
Now after I've been an evil bitchqueen, some particular things that I liked quite a bit:
- The dance part with Heero and Relena - That just amused me because of the connection to
Evita, even though the waltz comes later. Still, I liked that. heh.
- As mentioned, the audio/visual match was very well fit.
- Always had a good idea of who everyone represented in the song's story - which is a big mark in the good column, considering that the song is about half a dozen feuding groups/people, and it would be easy to get lost. But even though I only have a vague outline in my head of who everyone is in the anime, I didn't get lost.
- The lipsync is quite good, as mentioned.
- A lot of the matches to the army's comments about Eva/Relena were fun - like "And she's an actress!", which made me laugh.
So... I hope this doesn't discourage anyone, because this is all personal preference - but I thought that I (as an editor) always like to hear why people don't take to it if that's the case, so I thought it might at least be interesting to hear another side. :/
Sorry, and thanks.
