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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[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.

First of all, it mobilizes one of my favorite vidding modes: the perverse juxtaposition of an upbeat song with violent and disturbing imagery. You've done it with special subtlety and complexity in this case -- because you perfectly captured the subtlety and complexity of how reproduction operates in BSG. Hera, in particular, is simultaneously the profound miracle of love that the song implies, and the harbinger of the post-human apocalypse. And, as the song implies, she's the biological product of Helo and Sharon's love making, but just as much the techno-spawn of Gaius and Six's Cylon future. I adore how you structure the vid around images of (bio)technology (like Gaius's lab and the resurrection ship), and including Kara and Leoben's anti-romance in parallel drives home the death drive that runs uneasily within these couplings. It's the PERFECT rendition of what heyiya calls "antihumanist reproductive futurity"!

[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.