Uploaded November 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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HERE IS THE LINK TO WATCH "Lynette in Denial" (argh..) and PLEASE comment here on YouTube!
vimeo.com/53114383

It's been blocked in 46 countries so this was necessary... Still here is the link on YouTube too, maybe in some country it is not blocked.

youtube.com/watch?v=o3x9nEry2cM

Since I used an instrumental, I am not sure whether pitch shift would have changed anything.

The video info and voiceovers:

Round 1 of Five Stages of Grief contest!
The theme is denial, the vid has to be between 2.30 - 3.00 long. It has been an interesting challenge vidding one emotion for 3 whole minutes. I've decided to do Tom and Lynette Scavo from Desperate Housewives, as Lynette was in denial about various things almost all final season. Fortunately the end is well-known. :D

I refrained from too many effects so that viewers can concentrate on this emotion, especially towards the end, where the guitar crescendo and Lynette's denial kind of dance like one. Also, for the better understanding of the vid, the parts with white border are the pictures from the picture album, in case you miss to see the album and make the connection. :)

Voiceovers (some subtitled for dramatic effect, but not all to avoid distraction):

- Do you think we're in trouble?
- What do you think?
- All I know is 20 years ago if you'd put us in a beautiful room with the fireplace and a big bed and it rained all day, we wouldn't be talking about the weather.
- It's like you're not even trying!
- Me, I'm not trying?
- From what I see you're not!
- I don't know what-you-want.
- I don't know what I want.
- I think I should move in there for a while.
- No, no, no, no!
- I just know it isn't this.
- If you walk out that door, you'll never come back!
- You don't know that!
- Tom and I are going to heal through counselling...
- ..so we can find a road to reconnection.
- I got a new book title for you: your husband's banging somebody!
- What?!
- He's not. If he was .... dating someone, he would tell me..
- Hey...
- He would, .... right??!
- God Tom! When were you gonna tell me this?!?
- Thursday, in counselling.
- Lynette, we'll talk about it this Thursay?
- What's the point..
- I thought this was a trial separation..
- Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..
- .. to see if we could be happy.
- I am happy.
- Sorry..
- One minute you're boarding the plane to Paris and the next you rush to my side.'
- You do know, in spite of everything, you still mean the world to me.
- Lynette, I'm trying.
- You set this up!
- In my defence, I..
- What the hell is going on?!
- I just wanted to see where we stood, if there was still anything between us, if we could find our way to those people in the pictures..
- By tricking me?
- I am sorry about how I did it, but you can't deny what just happened! You still feel something!
- Jane just moved in with me and you do this now?!?
- There was this moment, this look between us, like we were Tom and Lynette again.
- Really?
- I could see it in his eyes.. Tom still loves me.

Fandom: Desperate Housewives, Tom and Lynette
Music: Shine on you crazy diamond by Pink Floyd (altered, instrumental intro part)
Program: Sony Vegas 10

No copyright infringement intended, I own nothing, except the idea and the creative editing.

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