New BSG vid

[aycheb]

Title: Babies

Artist: Pulp

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica

Spoilers: Miniseries through to S3.01 (Occupation)

Characters/Pairings: Yes

Format:XviD

Size: 32.7 MB

Summary: Love is the plan, the plan is… Shameless plagiary of James Tiptree Jnr, sexual conflict, evolutionary theory and gratuitous space porn.

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Comments

[projectcyborg]

fascinating! it's fabulously dark brain-bending, what with the perversely upbeat song and your provocative juxtapositions with the lyrics. plus, I appreciated all the sexing. ;)

[aycheb]

Thank you :-) Now I feel all twisted and dirty. Good times.

[projectcyborg]

I'm back again, after spending the interim immersed in reproduction as a theme in BSG -- we're talking an epic academic special-issue-editing dissertation-chapter-writing obsession. This is the best (and probably only) vid so far focused on this trope. Just, this vid OWNS me

[aycheb]

God to see you back! And will the fruits of the obsession be made public some time?

I'm a biologist so the reproductive aspects (sex and death are very much linked in evolutionary theory as well as by Freud) of BSG have always held a particular fascination and making this vid only made it worse. The pervasiveness of reproductive imagery in the show is really striking once you start to look, BSG space is like a giant womb. I'd love to read a proper analysis of the theme.

[projectcyborg]

oh lord, I've been going on about this in public WAY too much. probably the one not to miss is the FlowTV special issue I worked on, which includes not only my original essay but a bunch of others on the topic (plus the Mary McDonnell event report and interview!). there are a number of precursors to that on my acafan LJ, plus the entire dissertation chapter. and then there's the special reproduction vlogisode! in the course of working (and obsessing) with my advisor (the teddy bear) and friends, I've become convinced that EVERYTHING on BSG is about reproduction.