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The following videos were received in Round 48.

Submission 1

Name: Jaidanwolf
Video: Life Is Beautiful Until It's Not
Song/Artist: Life is Beautiful by Sixx:AM
Fandom: Harper's Island
Site Name: The Right Side
Categories: Best Action, Best Ensemble, Best Music Use, Best Overview
Summary: A start-to-finish overview of the show, contrasting the happier moments with the tragic deaths.

Submission 2

Name: Karen B.
Video: The Old Man
Song/Artist: The Old Man by Celtic Thunder
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best POV, Best Relationship
Summary: A look at Dean's pain over losing his father.

Submission 3

Name: Kivryn
Video: Hallelujah
Song/Artist: Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Character, Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best Storyteller
Summary: Kara's journey towards understanding and fulfilling her "special destiny".

Submission 4

Name: Galadriel
Video: Going Home
Song/Artist: Dark as Love - Luscious Redhead by Melissa Ritter
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis / Lord of the Rings
Site Name: Galadriel's Home
Categories: Best Alternative, Best POV, Best Relationship, Best Storyteller
Summary: After Major John Sheppard's arrival to Atlantis, he accidentally woke up the Wraith Queen, who guarded the City. But Galadriel, who is an Ancient, asked for his help to free and to drive home the City, back to Earth. She showed him what could have happened if he stayed and didn't go home, the Queen would defeat him too. Finally he successfully fulfilled his promise to Galadriel by killing the Queen and driving Atlantis back to home. Therefore Galadriel finally could join to the other ancients.

Submission 5

Name: Diar
Video: Breaking Point
Song/Artist: Liberation by A.R. Rahman
Fandom: Farscape
Site Name: Livejournal
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best Ensemble, Best Music Use
Summary: Everyone has a breaking point.

Submission 6

Name: BlairWaldorfQueenB
Video: my love is vengeance & it's never free
Song/Artist: Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Character, Best Music Use, Best Overview, Best Storyteller
Summary: "no one knows what it's like to be the bad man, the sad man"... This pretty much sums up the video. The clip choices & voiceovers are used to show how Damon is perceived by others, & how he perceives himself. I used clips from S1 + S2 + S3 Episode one to show Damon's emotions, actions, etc.

Submission 7

Name: T.M.
Video: Copacabana
Song/Artist: Copacabana by Barry Manilow
Fandom: Starsky & Hutch
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Most Humorous, Best Music Use, Most Original, Best Storyteller
Summary: Lola goes insane after her beloved Tony is murdered.

Submission 8

Name: Mazza
Video: Living Dead Katerina
Song/Artist: Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Site Name: Ditto Music Videos
Categories: Best Action, Best Character, Best Music Use, Best Overview
Summary: A look at the rather evil side to Katherine...

Submission 9

Name: Firefly_Ca
Video: It's Over Now
Song/Artist: It's Over Now from Little White Lie
Fandom: Glee
Site Name: Fanvideos by Firefly_Ca
Categories: Best Angst, Best Character, Best POV, Best Relationship
Summary: David Karofsky hates gay people, and everyone who accepts gay people. He's happy living his life this way until he ends up getting a crush on Kurt Hummel, something that pushes him into a tailspin of self-hatred that he takes out on everyone around him.

Submission 10

Name: Sammy
Video: Peter Wake
Song/Artist: N/A
Fandom: Fringe
Site Name: Duckie's Cave
Categories: Best Action, Best Alternative, Most Original, Best Vidlet
Summary: A trailer for a fake Fringe video game, based on the XBox360 game Alan Wake.

Submission 11

Name: KRL2008
Video: You Should Have Never Left
Song/Artist: Get Up by Barcelona
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Site Name: Kayla's Fanvids
Categories: Best Drama, Best POV, Best Relationship, Best Vidlet
Summary: A video about the relationship between Tyler and Caroline in s2 of TVD. I chose an instrumental song so I could use a lot of voiceovers and portray their relationship with their own words, instead of lyrics from a song.

Submission 12

Name: Siwann
Video: Hakuna Matata
Song/Artist: OST Lion King - Hakuna Matata
Fandom: Merlin
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Most Humorous, Most Original, Best POV, Best Storyteller
Summary: Merlin and Gaius will try to show Arthur another site of life.

Submission 13

Name: Holdt
Video: Unanswered
Song/Artist: Louder Than Thunder by The Devil Wears Prada
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Site Name: Go to Your Happy Place
Categories: Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best POV, Best Relationship
Summary: Daniel can't trust his own memories. (Post-Fallen) Pairing: Jack/Daniel. Warnings: fast cuts, angst

Submission 14

Name: SpuffyProductions
Video: All We're Good For
Song/Artist: Nightwatchmen by Bell X1
Fandom: Buffy
Site Name: SpuffyProductions
Categories: Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best Overview, Best Relationship
Summary: Buffy & Spike and all they're good for. An overview of their entire relationship from fighting to love.

Submission 15

Name: lilly_the_kid
Video: Blood makes Noise
Song/Artist: Blood makes Noise by Suzanne Vega
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Angst, Best Character, Best Music Use, Best POV
Summary: Dean can't hear cause blood makes noise.

Submission 16

Name: Andrea
Video: Monster, Monster
Song/Artist: In The Hall of The Mountain King - Grieg
Fandom: Buffy
Site Name: Art of Vidding
Categories: Best Ensemble, Best Music Use, Most Original, Best Overview
Summary: Seven seasons of monsters, courtesy of Buffy the Vampire slayer.

Submission 17

Name: Loki
Video: Out of Tune
Song/Artist: Kettering by The antlers
Fandom: Supernatural
Site Name: Graphic In Motion
Categories: Best Alternative, Best Angst, Best Drama, Best Storyteller
Summary: Sam's death wasn't supernatural - pretty natural car crash. But, even after years Dean can't get used to the loneliness on the road. When a truck hits Impala and Dean's in coma, he gets the opportunity to meet the reaper and ask her the chance to make all the wrongs right.

Submission 18

Name: rhoboat
Video: Get the Party Started
Song/Artist: Get the Party Started by Shirley Bassey
Fandom: Leverage/White Collar
Site Name: Swirly Things
Categories: Best Alternative, Best Ensemble, Best Music Use, Most Original
Summary: They're having so much fun, it's illegal.

Submission 19

Name: Valika
Video: How to Train Your Dragon: Merlin style
Song/Artist: How to Train Your Dragon movie trailer's soundtrack
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)/How to Train Your Dragon
Site Name: My Stargate Music Videos
Categories: Best Alternative, Most Humorous, Most Original, Best Storyteller
Summary: A funny, cracky and totally meaningless mash-up video. It's all the Dragon's fault!

Submission 20

Name: deslea
Video: Carry You Home
Song/Artist: Carry You Home by James Blunt
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Site Name: Video by Deslea
Categories: Best Angst, Best Overview, Best POV, Best Storyteller
Summary: Carry You Home is the story of TSCC's Riley, told through John's eyes as he puts the pieces together about Jesse.

Submission 21

Name: Camelia1986
Video: Crawling
Song/Artist: Crawling (Remix) by Linkin Park
Fandom: True Blood
Site Name: Myths and Demons Awards
Categories: Best Angst, Best Character, Best Storyteller, Best Vidlet
Summary: Jessica Hamby character study.

Submission 22

Name: Ar-Feiniel
Video: The Man in Between Darkness and Light, Part 1: Living in the Shadows
Song/Artist: Communication by The Cardigans
Fandom: Queer as Folk (US)
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Alternative, Best Music Use, Best POV, Best Storyteller
Summary: Brian is a brilliant ad exec and the most wanted gay man in Pittsburg, who believes in fucking, not love. Justin is a young artist (in a relationship with Ethan, a fiddler), who catches Brian's attention to which Justin is totally oblivious. After they finally meet at his friends (Mel & Linz) party Brian tries to insert himself in Justin's life: offers Justin a job at his ad agency (which makes Ethan wonder), attends his exhibition and buys one of his paintings, invites Justin to the GLC carnival. When after one recital Ethan cheats, Justin leaves him and moves in temporarily with Mel & Linz where Brian finds him, and this time Justin accepts a job. They enjoy working together and soon Justin starts hanging out with Brian and the gang and later even collaborates on a comic book "RAGE" with Brian's BFF - Michael. Brian isn't sure how to go about conveying his feelings and although they start seeing each other, he's not able to commit to one person. When they date casually Justin tolerates such an arrangement, but when Brian invites him to move in with him, yet still can't change his ways, Justin makes a decision to leave Brian.

Submission 23

Name: auntshoe
Video: Leave Me To Stay
Song/Artist: 4 Good Reasons To Leave All Of This Behind by Ben Frost
Fandom: Merlin
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best Relationship
Summary: "This is all my fault. He�ll never know who I really am." A study of Arthur/Merlin relationship throughout the first six episodes of season 4.

Submission 24

Name: Kahesha
Video: Pump It
Song/Artist: Pump It by Black Eyed Peas
Fandom: NCIS
Site Name: LJ
Categories: Best Action, Best Ensemble, Most Humorous, Best Overview
Summary: action + fun = NCIS. behind the jokes and the pranks, the NCIS team for sure means business. (team vid, focused on Tony, Ziva and Gibbs)

Submission 25

Name: Cieran Burt
Video: Buffy, Supernatural style re-cap
Song/Artist: AC/DC - You Shook me all Night Long
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Alternative, Best Music Use, Most Original, Best Overview
Summary: A re-cap of Buffy season 5 in the style of the re-caps for Supernatural.

Submission 26

Name: Rose
Video: Baby You Save Me
Song/Artist: Baby You Save Me by Kenny Chesney
Fandom: Justified
Site Name: Rose's Whispers
Categories: Best Character, Best POV, Best Relationship, Best Storyteller
Summary: A Justified video... Boyd to Ava.

Submission 27

Name: ADF Productions
Video: Simple Math
Song/Artist: Simple Math by Manchester Orchestra
Fandom: The Walking Dead
Site Name: ADF Productions
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best Ensemble, Most Original
Summary: A group of people must come together to survive. They must face the harsh reality that the world they knew no longer exists. In a world ruled by the dead, they are still plagued by human emotions and forced to finally start living.

Submission 28

Name: Jesuit
Video: We Might Fall
Song/Artist: We Might Fall by Ryan Star
Fandom: Space: Above And Beyond
Site Name: Jesuit24's Veedyos
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best Ensemble, Best Music Use
Summary: The Five-Eight have seen so many of their fellow marines fall in the bloody war of first contact, it's only a matter of time before they join them.

Submission 29

Name: yessikg
Video: Uther/Morgana - Rolling in the Deep
Song/Artist: Rolling In The Deep by Adele
Fandom: Merlin
Site Name: Youtube
Categories: Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best Overview, Best Relationship
Summary: Exposition of the complex relationship between Morgana and Uther.

Submission 30

Name: Avenue Potter
Video: Nobody's Listening
Song/Artist: Nobody's Listening by Linkin Park
Fandom: Farscape
Site Name: AvenuePotter.com
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best Overview
Summary: John Chrichton is raped by Grayza in the What Was Lost episodes of Farscape.

Submission 31

Name: SpikesPet
Video: This Woman's Work
Song/Artist: This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
Fandom: Angel
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Angst, Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best Storyteller
Summary: Darla's journey and feelings through her pregnancy until she finally "gives birth" to Connor.

Submission 32

Name: LT Garrix
Video: The Gambler
Song/Artist: The Gambler by Mike Doughty
Fandom: Farscape
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Best Character, Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best Storyteller
Summary: John has a big gamble to take in Unrealized Realities.

Submission 33

Name: Janekatherine
Video: Bleeding Red
Song/Artist: Bleed Red / Ronnie Dunn
Fandom: Leverage
Site Name: YouTube
Categories: Best Character, Best Drama, Best POV, Best Storyteller
Summary: Eliot Spencer bleeds red for all the right reasons. He is a protector of the unprotected and a defender of the weak; a true warrior.

Submission 34

Name: Starrylizard
Video: Meet the O.D.S.
Song/Artist: Os Quindins de Ya Ya by Stanley Black
Fandom: CHAOS
Site Name: N/A
Categories: Most Humorous, Best Music Use, Most Original, Best Overview
Summary: Meet the O.D.S. Last of the old school spies. A fun introduction to Chaos and it's characters.

Submission 35

Name: Haider Rifaat
Video: Buffy & Spike - Takin' Back My Love
Song/Artist: Enrique Iglesias Takin' Back My Love
Fandom: Buffy
Site Name: YouTube
Categories: Best Character, Best Drama, Best Music Use, Best Relationship
Summary: The Video Shows Buffy And Spike, A Couple Who Always Fight On Petty Issues. In The Beginning, Of The Video, Spike And Buffy Are Seen Happy With Each Other But As The Video Progresses, They Start Having Arguments Which Weakens Their Relationship. The Basic Idea Of This Video Is To Show Buffy And Spike, "Taking Back Their Love" From Each Other. With Time, When Buffy And Spike Get Physically Attracted To Each Other, They Develop A Certain Feeling Which Takes Them Into A Different World. Both Of Them Get Together Once Again! After All, They Are Spuffy!