I wonder now though if the real aesthetic culture shock would be that they were made ten years ago, not that they branched off from vidding-at-large. Which isn't to say that you are wrong, just that looking back I wonder if the most obvious difference might be when not what. (I will test this theory now by reacquainting myself with Farscape Fantasy. LOVED that site back in the day.)
That said: Farscape vids were what I dived into when I started watching vids, so I wouldn't be surprised if some "new" vidders (like myself) count Farscape vidding as a major influence rather than Star Trek, slash, convention vidding, VHS vidding, etc. Certainly it perplexed me the first time that I saw vidding described as being a slash thing and that was during a period of my fannish life when I would have self-identified as a slasher! My instinct says that Farscape vidding, along with Xena and probably BtVS and Firefly, helped broaden the scope of what vidding-at-large could be, and the topics and characters that vids explored. Agree? Disagree? Since I was only just getting familiar with vidding at that time, your instincts are probably closer to the mark.
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That said: Farscape vids were what I dived into when I started watching vids, so I wouldn't be surprised if some "new" vidders (like myself) count Farscape vidding as a major influence rather than Star Trek, slash, convention vidding, VHS vidding, etc. Certainly it perplexed me the first time that I saw vidding described as being a slash thing and that was during a period of my fannish life when I would have self-identified as a slasher! My instinct says that Farscape vidding, along with Xena and probably BtVS and Firefly, helped broaden the scope of what vidding-at-large could be, and the topics and characters that vids explored. Agree? Disagree? Since I was only just getting familiar with vidding at that time, your instincts are probably closer to the mark.