The Mercy Seat: A Felix Gaeta Video Tribute

[falafel_musings]

Title: The Mercy Seat
Song/Artist: 'The Mercy Seat' by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica 2003
Description: A tribute to the hysterically tragic life of Felix Gaeta. This video includes surreal religious depictions of Felix's own personal idol, Gaius Baltar, a few shady characters like Zarek and Crazy Eight who like to kill people

Comments

[jemmalynette]

Wow, you made a fanvid?!

I love it, it's a wonderful tribute. The song is perfect. I love all the "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" bits. Really great lyric intepretation! Brilliant job with this.
I miss you, Felix!

[falafel_musings]

*blushes* It means a lot to me that you like this. I'm a big fan of your own vids. Thanks for your support.

Also, I love your Boomer icon. I'm loving Boomer a lot lately. Would you mind if I used it?

[jemmalynette]

Also, I love your Boomer icon. I'm loving Boomer a lot lately. Would you mind if I used it?

Sure, you can use it! :) It's one of the ones I made. I made quite a few from the new eps which I'll post up soon if you want to snag any of them :)

[trovia]

This is beautiful. Also, it's very much you. It reminds me of your fic. :)

Definitely one of my new favorites.

[falafel_musings]

Thanks! It's great that it reminds you of my fic. I was really hoping this played out in a narrative way.

[safenthecity]

Ok, before I watch the video, (because I'm sure it will make me cry) I must tell you that your description and warning, in their morbid blunt truthfulness, made me laugh out loud. Ok, on to the movie.

And I was right. This tore my heart to pieces.

The way you interwove his last confession with his last moments... That was surprising and so effective.

Absolutely amazing.

[falafel_musings]

*insane giggles* After editing those clips of endless turmoil and abuse, I was feeling a little hysterical. I felt the need to be glib about it.

Thanks! I was really happy with how those last few frames with Felix and Gaius worked. AJ and Callis are brilliant in that scene.

[safenthecity]

Laughter is a defense mechanism, which you probably were in dire need of after compiling all these scenes together.And yes, those two guys played that scene so perfectly. It was, and I keep coming back to this word, stunning. I don't have any other way to describe it.

I feel the need to mention that I cannot stop watching this. I don't know why I keep torturing myself this way, but I continue to switch between this and Colorblind every time I get on a computer.

[falafel_musings]

Thanks! It's great to hear this video has meritted rewatching. Colourblind is amazing. You should check out cylunes Baltar and Starbuck vids. They are brilliant too.

[anonymousblu]

Powerful. Love the music. Much better than working!

[falafel_musings]

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[lls_mutant]

Ouch. Every time I think it's letting up on me, someone does something like this and it's like ripping the scab off, in a gleeful sort of way. This was beautiful. (I also really like the song, especially all the bits about speaking the truth. Because that's exactly what Gaeta was doing. AND ADAMA REALIZES IT NOW, WHICH IS WHY HE'S A FUCKING LUSH. HA!)

I was actually struck by the shot you used of Hoshi, of all things. I haven't rewatched webisode 10 in a while, and there's a real look of pain there that's just heartbreaking, like Hoshi dimly realizes Felix is going down a very dark path, and he can't follow or help.

[falafel_musings]

Sorry to rip off your scabs *but its good to bleed!*

Thanks! Obviously this vid was Baltar/Gaeta dominated but I wanted to touch on Felix's other significant relationships, so I fit a little Felix/Louis verse in there. Aww, they could have been such a cute couple and saved the world with math *mourns*