Song: Let Me Kiss You
Artist: Trevor Morris
From: Netflix’s _Castlevania_ (2017)
Video: _Middle-earth: Shadow of War_ (2017)

This was another case of inspiration suddenly coming to me, though this time it happened AFTER I’d finished my first run of _Shadow of War_ rather than during it. There’s really not much to say about it, though, except for the fact that this video became my first real case of “editor’s block” since I started working on my Halloween Mix videos—I started on it shortly after (or was it contemporaneously to?) my “Fountain of Blood” music video but was feeling completely uninspired and ended up making SIX other videos first, but since I eventually DID complete it before I got to uploading all of them, (since I was devoting my then-required daily upload limit to a different project, working on this collection within the Halloween Mix during that time) I’m still counting it as the third among all those uploads rather than the tenth.

I eventually got through that block by working a bit backwards, since I knew I wanted the final major bit of the track to be “sudden” and so determined that almost before everything else, (if still using a different clip for it since the others I’d considered for there got used elsewhere) except for the opening part of Talion re-binding himself to life. In the end, I decided to frame the loose story of the music video as being that Talion gave in to the darkness much sooner, (for context, the flashback sequence that starts here is of course the inciting incident from _Shadow of Mordor_ while the scene of him in the “present” and taking a Ring of Power to keep living is from the “final” battle of the sequel) and fighting slightly different enemies (reframing the Men of Minas Ithil as if they were some of the Men who allied with Sauron, or else just with orcs and the Nazgûl) and then destroying the Nazgûl and summoning Sauron to submit to him, or perhaps becoming Sauron himself. (Incidentally, that had been my headcanon about what eventually happened to Talion when I'd only played _Shadow of Mordor,_ supposing that that's where Sauron got his "new" body that he would've used to fight Aragorn in a deleted scene from Peter Jackson's _Return of the King,_ replaced by a troll captain in the final version.) It’s obviously not consistent with Talion’s character for the most part, but the visual accompaniment to each Halloween Mix song isn’t as important as the song itself even if I try my best to make a good video to go with it. In the end, I unfortunately don’t think I’m totally satisfied with it, but I doubt I could get any clips to improve it further even if I did another run of _Shadow of War_ from start to finish trying to find more or different clips.

This track itself is the complete version of the credits music to Netflix’s _Castlevania_ series, but in the actual show it’s used for the scene where the corrupt, unnamed bishop who caused the plot to begin by having Dracula’s wife executed realizes that God isn’t going to protect him any longer after a group of night creatures enter the church he’s staying in, and that requested kiss by that one demon in particular was obviously NOT a pleasant experience. Not that the bishop didn’t deserve it.

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