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When people talk about the dawn of the PMV age, the video they tend to mention is "Trouble Is a Friend" by LM1313. It's by some distance the best known of the very early PMVs, but it's not the first. It's not even the second, but that's something I'll talk about on another occasion. The first, I believe, is the one embedded above: "Your Love Is My Drug" by MLPBubbles, published on 30th September 2010.
And no, that's not a typo. This video was put together from trailer footage that aired more than a week before Friendship is Magic premiered. This inevitably means that the video is very short (only just over a minute) and reuses animation – but hey, the show does that in some of its songs too! I'd love to know if anything older is out there, but for now, this is the PMV I consider to have started it all.
Also, technically this means the G4 fandom didn't start on 4chan after all. ;)
Being able to take the fandom away from 4chan would be the best thing ever!
ReplyDeleteThe mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
DeleteI always hear that in Douglas Adams' voice when he was playing Mr. Prosser in the BBC series.
DeleteHe didn't, though. He was played by Bill Wallis on the radio and Joe Melia on TV. It's the TV Prosser that sticks in my mind, since that was the version of HHG I was exposed to first and thus the one I like best. (I know you're supposed to like the radio series better, but I'm a terrible pleb who doesn't. :P )
DeleteWeird! Man, I don't know where I picked that notion up, but i was sure that was his cameo. I guess that's what comes of never actually knowing what Douglas Adams looked or sounded like...
DeleteOh, and I've never heard the radio series, to the TV version is all that I know (besides the books). I spent a good portion of The Force Awakens wondering if the alien who employs Rey was a nod to the vogons. He looked just like them.
DeleteI love that BBC TV series. It's amazing how cheap they can be and still be wonderful.
Douglas Adams has a couple of cameos, in fact. In episode one, he's one of the drinkers in the pub. The more famous one, though, is in episode two: he's the guy who throws his money away and walks naked into the sea. (This was supposed to be done by an extra, but said extra called in sick.)
DeleteThe radio series is worth it, I think, unless you hate audiobooks. You do lose the "computer graphics", which to me is a major hit, and inevitably some of the plotlines are different – that's HHG for you. The hardest thing for me to come to terms with was having some, but only some, of the VAs being different actors to their TV equivalents.
The speed at which things like this happened in the very earliest days always amazes me.
ReplyDeleteI really wish sometimes that I'd got into MLP back in 2010. A few of my friends were there in the very early days and told me to watch it, but I didn't listen.
DeleteThe fact that MLP as a franchise had a fairly large established fan base can't have hurt, admittedly.