Heroes Live Forever
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Song: “Heroes Live Forever” by Vanessa Amorosi for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Episodes:
Temptation, A Distant Shore, The Watcher, The Beast Within, A Happy Life
Behind the Scenes:
As soon as I heard this song sung at the 2000 Olympics, I was searching online for a copy I could use for a video. It spoke so strongly to me of the epic story of Vincent and Catherine, that I felt I had to immediately make a video of it. Notice that the first part of the song correlates perfectly to the little video montage used in the episode “Temptations.” The rest of it felt like a natural progression of the lyrics. For many years, the video remained an absolute fan favorite.
The quote at the end relates to fandom’s struggle to keep the show, “the dream”, alive. The dream was a plea for the “powers that be” to release the episodes in some video format. VHS tapes existed for the first season–the remaining episodes could only be seen in rare reruns, and on the VHS tapes originally privately recorded by the fans themselves. The complete series was finally released on DVD in 2008, twenty years after the show had originally aired.