You know you *always* make me cry with your gorgeous videos. I'm really crying over this one. I love it so much! 😭😭😭😭❤❤❤❤ I think it's because not only have I always loved the song, but because you told the story starting with Jamie's hurt and sense of betrayal years later, long after they met. You gave us the setup in the intro, but the moment I saw the hurt look on his face, I was a goner. It was so unexpected that with this very romantic song, you started with his pain. You, being the superb storyteller that you are, used that as the springboard for him to remember at that crucial moment, the first time he saw her. The way she healed him and touched his heart and a short time later, even kissed him like no other woman. He recalled those early memories of instant attraction and falling in love. You brought those words to life in a very real way. The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave To the dark and the endless skies He remembered how she brought sunlight to his dark world. He'd been through so much...lost so much...and suddenly... he saw her. Even at night she was a full moonbeam with millions of bright stars surrounding her. With Claire there was always light. Even now, when she enraged and hurt him so deeply and darkness was surrounding them, he could still remember and see her light. ☀ The first time ever I kissed your mouth I felt the earth move in my hand Like the trembling heart of a captive bird That was there at my command, my love He recalled their first kiss at the altar after vowing their lives to each other. He knew when their lips met and clung that something powerful had just taken place. This was something more than a forced marriage. He'd loved her before. But there was a shift in the tectonic plates of his heart at that intimate touch - the movement had changed his life forever. She felt it too. It was all there, in that kiss. Sanctuary. And later, when they began their slow journey of discovery, when they kissed freely and in earnest and their hearts trembled and fluttered as quickly as a captive bird's, he knew she already commanded his heart as much as he knew that hers was now his to command... he didn't know her yet. 🤭 😏😉 But he did hold her very life in his hands. As he told her, she had his protection in every way humanly possible. The joy of it! Happily, he would soon find that she held his life in her hands, as well. 😌 They were perfectly suited and had stepped into their destiny. 💖 And finally, when they lay together... And the first time ever I lay with you I felt your heart so close to mine And I knew our joy would fill the earth And last 'til the end of time, my love He remembered their first time. Their first night. The wonder of it. And the promise it held. He knew they were forever then ...and even now, when his heart was heavy with pain and confusion. He looked into her beloved face, the face he'd delighted in thousands of times...and he loved her still. Nothing could ever come between them and change it. We see *his* face, and how he steadily works his way back to her, all with the expressions you chose to show us. I also loved seeing Claire's young face and her now mature face. She looked so beautiful, vulnerable and pleading...how could Jamie resist her? He couldn't. And then you resolved it with them coming together. I'm crying rivers by this point. 😭😭 The reason this touches me so deeply is because you bookended their current lives with their earliest times in the middle. It made the message of the song all the more powerful. Juxtaposing the promise their early love held with the ultimate testing of that love shows us how deeply rooted their love is. They *will* last till the end of time. This is so romantic it hurts! Once again I fell totally in love with Jamie and Claire. And Sam and Caitríona, too, for so faithfully and truthfully bringing them to life. Your videos are thought out in detail and the scenes and music are meticulously chosen. You're really good at this - showing us what your thoughts are and letting us see for ourselves. Another triumph, Chris! 🙌🏆❤
My dear, just as my videos make you happy, your comments and analysis of them are always a highlight for me. I just can't get over how well you understand what I do, how I do it and why I do it. I think by now my regular viewers know how I create my videos and what might make them different from others. But you, you could write my transcripts😮. I think words are your gift, just as it may be mine to harmonize and synchronize music, texts and images in my works. The ability to describe what you see and hear is one thing, understanding which means I use, why I choose certain scenes for certain music passages, why the structure of a video is the way it is, is something completely different. Perhaps another gift. Being able to empathize with someone else's mind, to understand their thoughts and motivations. This shows enormous empathy, but also emotional intelligence. Maybe I'm just hitting your taste and that's why it's so easy for you to follow my train of thought. Maybe we're just on the same wavelength in terms of our thoughts and feelings when it comes to Jamie and Claire. When I started making the videos, I really had no idea how to do this. But I wanted to tell little stories about Jamie & Claire by synchronizing music/lyrics and scenes. That the audience recognized that made me very happy and still fills me with joy. I think I might have stopped at some point if no one had noticed. But I never expected that there would be people who would realize that I work with perspectives, use introductions, or a red thread that leads through the videos, something that provides a kind of framework for the topic I have chosen, the starting point/the present in my story. I sometimes explain this in my descriptions, but I'm also amazed at how many people actually read them. That pleases me, since I see it as an appreciation of my work, that the videos are not only watched, but also understood and that there is interest in what I have to say about their message and creation. I found it very appealing to begin this deeply romantic song with scenes of perhaps the biggest challenge in their marriage. Setting this situation as “now“, where Jamie is hurt, offended, jealous and angry. Shaken in his faith in his marriage and Claire's love. It's been a long time since he harbored such doubts and fears. Even when John confessed to him what had happened, he didn't believe him at first. The thought was completely absurd. His reaction was all the more violent when he realized that it was the truth. So I started at the moment when he confronts Claire. And use his emotions to return to the past, to the images of their beginnings, when he fell head over heels in love. I use his memories to narrate the song. The fact that I return to the present in the middle and at the end, showing Jamie beginning to understand how and why it happened, what it meant or what it didn't mean, only adds to the romance of the song. He is still jealous and hurt, but realizing that nothing can erase his love for Claire. What could be more romantic 🫠💖
Oh my. What a beauty of a video 💖💖! I go back a lot of years and remember falling in love with this song when I first heard Roberta Flack sing it in 1969. This is exactly what Jamie did with Claire.
Ich teile die besonders schönen Kommentare, sie sind perfekt. Was für ein ergreifendes Video von Jamie und Claire. Sicher, Jamie ist sehr verletzt. Zunächst durch Johns Ausspruch : wir haben es mit dir getrieben. Und das stimmt sogar keiner hat den anderen geliebt. Und Claire hat nur an Jamie gedacht. Sie erklärt nun Jamie die Situation. Aber ich erinnere mich an ein Zitat von Jamie aus der 1. Staffel. Beide hatten sich ernsthaft gezankt. Und dann vergaben sie sich. Jamie aber hatte Claire schon alles vergeben, auch das, was noch geschehen würde. Und das tut er auf seine Weise. Im Buch ist diese Vergebung sehr schön geschrieben. Du hast ein sehr emotionales Video geschaffen, Chris. Ich wünsche dir ein schönes Weihnachtsfest. 👌👌🤗❤️❤️👍👍
Oh Heike, vielen lieben Dank. Was für schöne Worte du gefunden hast. Ich freue mich sehr über dein Verständnis für meine Arbeit und deine Wertschätzung. Ich wünsche dir ebenfalls ein schönes Weihnachtsfest 🎄😘
Oh Chris you did a wonderful job matching the song with the video and it is such a lovely song! And the relationship between Jamie and Claire has been so lovely too! Speaking of darkness lest we forget at the Wedding when Jamie came to meet Claire and he said it was like the sun came out on a cloudy day! I just loved that scene! Watching Jamie and Claire in their most intimate moments and watching them thru the years touching talking and looking at each just reinforces my love and admiration for these two characters and for the amazing acting of Cait and Sam! It is so believable and it just pulls you in! As I said before I can watch them over and over again! Thank you Chris! Your videos are always so thought out and of the highest quality and this one was no different! Really appreciate your work! Loved it!💙🤍🙏🏻😍🤩
Thank you for your kind words, Diane! Yes, that song is so lovely, isn't it? And you're right, Jamie likes to describe Claire as his light, his sun that dispels any darkness, whether it's in him or around him. She had done so since their first encounter. After the death of his father, the flogging by BJ and the subsequent escape, he lived in darkness, cut off from his family and the life he was meant to lead. With Claire, the light returned to his life, she gave his life meaning and perspective again. She recognized who he really was and loved him for it. The first verse of the song in particular does justice to this statement. The dark and endless sky represents Jamie's life, which Claire brightened with her gifts, the moon and the stars, her light, her kindness and beauty. You see, I also love his statement in which he compares the sight of her in front of the church to the sun breaking through the clouds🌅. I like to use this image in my videos. Sometimes very clear, sometimes a little subtle, depending on the text. Your appreciation makes me very, very happy, thank you so much for that ✨☀️❤🥰
You know you *always* make me cry with your gorgeous videos. I'm really crying over this one. I love it so much! 😭😭😭😭❤❤❤❤
I think it's because not only have I always loved the song, but because you told the story starting with Jamie's hurt and sense of betrayal years later, long after they met. You gave us the setup in the intro, but the moment I saw the hurt look on his face, I was a goner. It was so unexpected that with this very romantic song, you started with his pain.
You, being the superb storyteller that you are, used that as the springboard for him to remember at that crucial moment, the first time he saw her. The way she healed him and touched his heart and a short time later, even kissed him like no other woman. He recalled those early memories of instant attraction and falling in love. You brought those words to life in a very real way.
The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the endless skies
He remembered how she brought sunlight to his dark world. He'd been through so much...lost so much...and suddenly... he saw her. Even at night she was a full moonbeam with millions of bright stars surrounding her. With Claire there was always light. Even now, when she enraged and hurt him so deeply and darkness was surrounding them, he could still remember and see her light. ☀
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hand
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love
He recalled their first kiss at the altar after vowing their lives to each other. He knew when their lips met and clung that something powerful had just taken place. This was something more than a forced marriage. He'd loved her before. But there was a shift in the tectonic plates of his heart at that intimate touch - the movement had changed his life forever. She felt it too. It was all there, in that kiss. Sanctuary. And later, when they began their slow journey of discovery, when they kissed freely and in earnest and their hearts trembled and fluttered as quickly as a captive bird's, he knew she already commanded his heart as much as he knew that hers was now his to command... he didn't know her yet. 🤭 😏😉 But he did hold her very life in his hands. As he told her, she had his protection in every way humanly possible. The joy of it! Happily, he would soon find that she held his life in her hands, as well. 😌 They were perfectly suited and had stepped into their destiny. 💖
And finally, when they lay together...
And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the earth
And last 'til the end of time, my love
He remembered their first time. Their first night. The wonder of it. And the promise it held. He knew they were forever then ...and even now, when his heart was heavy with pain and confusion. He looked into her beloved face, the face he'd delighted in thousands of times...and he loved her still. Nothing could ever come between them and change it. We see *his* face, and how he steadily works his way back to her, all with the expressions you chose to show us.
I also loved seeing Claire's young face and her now mature face. She looked so beautiful, vulnerable and pleading...how could Jamie resist her? He couldn't. And then you resolved it with them coming together. I'm crying rivers by this point. 😭😭
The reason this touches me so deeply is because you bookended their current lives with their earliest times in the middle. It made the message of the song all the more powerful. Juxtaposing the promise their early love held with the ultimate testing of that love shows us how deeply rooted their love is. They *will* last till the end of time.
This is so romantic it hurts! Once again I fell totally in love with Jamie and Claire. And Sam and Caitríona, too, for so faithfully and truthfully bringing them to life.
Your videos are thought out in detail and the scenes and music are meticulously chosen. You're really good at this - showing us what your thoughts are and letting us see for ourselves.
Another triumph, Chris! 🙌🏆❤
My dear, just as my videos make you happy, your comments and analysis of them are always a highlight for me. I just can't get over how well you understand what I do, how I do it and why I do it. I think by now my regular viewers know how I create my videos and what might make them different from others. But you, you could write my transcripts😮. I think words are your gift, just as it may be mine to harmonize and synchronize music, texts and images in my works. The ability to describe what you see and hear is one thing, understanding which means I use, why I choose certain scenes for certain music passages, why the structure of a video is the way it is, is something completely different. Perhaps another gift. Being able to empathize with someone else's mind, to understand their thoughts and motivations. This shows enormous empathy, but also emotional intelligence. Maybe I'm just hitting your taste and that's why it's so easy for you to follow my train of thought. Maybe we're just on the same wavelength in terms of our thoughts and feelings when it comes to Jamie and Claire.
When I started making the videos, I really had no idea how to do this. But I wanted to tell little stories about Jamie & Claire by synchronizing music/lyrics and scenes. That the audience recognized that made me very happy and still fills me with joy. I think I might have stopped at some point if no one had noticed. But I never expected that there would be people who would realize that I work with perspectives, use introductions, or a red thread that leads through the videos, something that provides a kind of framework for the topic I have chosen, the starting point/the present in my story. I sometimes explain this in my descriptions, but I'm also amazed at how many people actually read them. That pleases me, since I see it as an appreciation of my work, that the videos are not only watched, but also understood and that there is interest in what I have to say about their message and creation.
I found it very appealing to begin this deeply romantic song with scenes of perhaps the biggest challenge in their marriage. Setting this situation as “now“, where Jamie is hurt, offended, jealous and angry. Shaken in his faith in his marriage and Claire's love. It's been a long time since he harbored such doubts and fears. Even when John confessed to him what had happened, he didn't believe him at first. The thought was completely absurd. His reaction was all the more violent when he realized that it was the truth. So I started at the moment when he confronts Claire. And use his emotions to return to the past, to the images of their beginnings, when he fell head over heels in love. I use his memories to narrate the song. The fact that I return to the present in the middle and at the end, showing Jamie beginning to understand how and why it happened, what it meant or what it didn't mean, only adds to the romance of the song. He is still jealous and hurt, but realizing that nothing can erase his love for Claire. What could be more romantic 🫠💖
@@tunes4pics Awww, thank you for your lovely words, Chris.. We are each other's fans...😊☺😘
@ Yes, I guess we are 😊😍😘
Oh my word this is gorgeous, exquisite and absolutely stunning‼️🌟🥰❤️💯
Many many thanks, Cathy ❤🥰🙏🏼 I’m delighted that you like it.
I felt this, it is so beautiful! And this version of the song is amazing!
@@averageamerican8167 Thank you 🙏🏼🥰
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL ❤
Take me back to S1 ..For The First Time ❤
Thx Sandi, I'm delighted that you like it. Yes, a look back at baby Claire & Jamie. They were (and are) the cutest. ❤❤❤
Magnificent pure perfection so sharing this
@@joslynhill3529 Thx 🥰❤️🥰
Very beautiful this song and video
@@mihaelacaraiman670 Thx Mihaela 💖🙏🏼🥰
Oh my. What a beauty of a video 💖💖! I go back a lot of years and remember falling in love with this song when I first heard Roberta Flack sing it in 1969. This is exactly what Jamie did with Claire.
@@Oldleftiehere Thank you Sarah🙏🏼🥰, I'm glad you like my arrangement of the song and scenes. The song is really incredibly beautiful ✨💖
Ich teile die besonders schönen Kommentare, sie sind perfekt.
Was für ein ergreifendes Video von Jamie und Claire.
Sicher, Jamie ist sehr verletzt.
Zunächst durch Johns Ausspruch : wir haben es mit dir getrieben.
Und das stimmt sogar keiner hat den anderen geliebt.
Und Claire hat nur an Jamie gedacht.
Sie erklärt nun Jamie die Situation.
Aber ich erinnere mich an ein Zitat von Jamie aus der 1. Staffel.
Beide hatten sich ernsthaft gezankt. Und dann vergaben sie sich.
Jamie aber hatte Claire schon alles vergeben, auch das, was noch geschehen würde.
Und das tut er auf seine Weise.
Im Buch ist diese Vergebung sehr schön geschrieben.
Du hast ein sehr emotionales Video geschaffen, Chris.
Ich wünsche dir ein schönes Weihnachtsfest.
👌👌🤗❤️❤️👍👍
Oh Heike, vielen lieben Dank. Was für schöne Worte du gefunden hast. Ich freue mich sehr über dein Verständnis für meine Arbeit und deine Wertschätzung. Ich wünsche dir ebenfalls ein schönes Weihnachtsfest 🎄😘
Oh Chris you did a wonderful job matching the song with the video and it is such a lovely song! And the relationship between Jamie and Claire has been so lovely too! Speaking of darkness lest we forget at the Wedding when Jamie came to meet Claire and he said it was like the sun came out on a cloudy day! I just loved that scene!
Watching Jamie and Claire in their most intimate moments and watching them thru the years touching talking and looking at each just reinforces my love and admiration for these two characters and for the amazing acting of Cait and Sam! It is so believable and it just pulls you in! As I said before I can watch them over and over again!
Thank you Chris! Your videos are always so thought out and of the highest quality and this one was no different! Really appreciate your work! Loved it!💙🤍🙏🏻😍🤩
Thank you for your kind words, Diane! Yes, that song is so lovely, isn't it? And you're right, Jamie likes to describe Claire as his light, his sun that dispels any darkness, whether it's in him or around him. She had done so since their first encounter. After the death of his father, the flogging by BJ and the subsequent escape, he lived in darkness, cut off from his family and the life he was meant to lead. With Claire, the light returned to his life, she gave his life meaning and perspective again. She recognized who he really was and loved him for it. The first verse of the song in particular does justice to this statement. The dark and endless sky represents Jamie's life, which Claire brightened with her gifts, the moon and the stars, her light, her kindness and beauty. You see, I also love his statement in which he compares the sight of her in front of the church to the sun breaking through the clouds🌅. I like to use this image in my videos. Sometimes very clear, sometimes a little subtle, depending on the text. Your appreciation makes me very, very happy, thank you so much for that ✨☀️❤🥰
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Beautiful as always. Thank you for your gifts to this fandom.
@@melissabowers6268 Aww, thank you Melissa 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼. It’s so nice to delight you 😘
This is just beautiful . And calming . And did I say beautiful ? ❤
Thank you 😍🥰❤️✨