I get obsessive when I'm vidding, and everything else tends to fall by the wayside until I'm done.
No sweat :) Vidding is primary, right? ;)
…vids like this are a good reason for you to continue your flirtation with Poets of the Fall.
You think so? I don’t know... After this vid I have a strong urge to make myself stop pondering on creating another video to their composition.
I don't know if you were deliberately making the comparison, but it's there when the quorum returns later, with Lee standing in the middle of them.
Yes, this connection and comparison is deliberate, as well as pretty much everything else in this vid.
I found it interesting that of all the symbols you could pick to use as a symbol of belief, you went for the Arrow of Apollo (with some gorgeous key effects used to overlay the Arrow and Kara and Laura's hands at about the 1:10 mark). It made an interesting contrast between the shots that followed it immediately of Lee leading the Pegasus into battle,
I think I did it because I find it interesting that Roslin’s blind belief in her visions, the Arrow, the Tomb and somesuch aren’t Lee’s basis to follow her and go against his dad, splitting the fleet; in fact, her symbol of belief - for him is a symbol of the price (Kara’s probable death and his father’s further disappointment in him) that he has to pay… Lee is willing to pay that price because he can do nothing about Kara’s decision when she already jumped away and he believes the cause is right and that restoring some form of democratic leadership is an important thing to do. It was hard to pack his whole story of personal disappointment in Rolsin’s methods and his choice to sacrifice honesty for Kara’s life that Roslin forced him to make indirectly in RS2, but I tried… This whole video is made of going back and forth, I deliberately jump in time… and when Roslin faces the same evidence of unexplainable mystery in form of Kara’s reappearance and a brand new Viper on the deck - what does she do? For Lee she refuses to recognize the possibility of that same mystery being before her very eyes… and not just because Kara might be the enemy, but also because she might pose a threat to Roslin’s own vision of the right way to Earth and more importantly - to the existential meaning of Roslin’s sacrificial death. That’s partly why her decision-making becomes even more autocratic - and from that time on Lee practically represents the opposition.
And when later Lee shares with her the feeling of the Quorum representatives’ despair that he experienced - in order to persuade her to talk to the people - Roslin basically makes a point that he’s never tried holding their lives in balance so he can’t possibly understand her choice to minimize contacts and maximize distance - which I address with the help of that shot of Lee leading Pegasus into battle and some S1/2 footage again - and by doing so I continue the polemics.
No sweat :) Vidding is primary, right? ;)
…vids like this are a good reason for you to continue your flirtation with Poets of the Fall.
You think so? I don’t know... After this vid I have a strong urge to make myself stop pondering on creating another video to their composition.
I don't know if you were deliberately making the comparison, but it's there when the quorum returns later, with Lee standing in the middle of them.
Yes, this connection and comparison is deliberate, as well as pretty much everything else in this vid.
I found it interesting that of all the symbols you could pick to use as a symbol of belief, you went for the Arrow of Apollo (with some gorgeous key effects used to overlay the Arrow and Kara and Laura's hands at about the 1:10 mark). It made an interesting contrast between the shots that followed it immediately of Lee leading the Pegasus into battle,
I think I did it because I find it interesting that Roslin’s blind belief in her visions, the Arrow, the Tomb and somesuch aren’t Lee’s basis to follow her and go against his dad, splitting the fleet; in fact, her symbol of belief - for him is a symbol of the price (Kara’s probable death and his father’s further disappointment in him) that he has to pay… Lee is willing to pay that price because he can do nothing about Kara’s decision when she already jumped away and he believes the cause is right and that restoring some form of democratic leadership is an important thing to do. It was hard to pack his whole story of personal disappointment in Rolsin’s methods and his choice to sacrifice honesty for Kara’s life that Roslin forced him to make indirectly in RS2, but I tried…
This whole video is made of going back and forth, I deliberately jump in time… and when Roslin faces the same evidence of unexplainable mystery in form of Kara’s reappearance and a brand new Viper on the deck - what does she do? For Lee she refuses to recognize the possibility of that same mystery being before her very eyes… and not just because Kara might be the enemy, but also because she might pose a threat to Roslin’s own vision of the right way to Earth and more importantly - to the existential meaning of Roslin’s sacrificial death. That’s partly why her decision-making becomes even more autocratic - and from that time on Lee practically represents the opposition.
And when later Lee shares with her the feeling of the Quorum representatives’ despair that he experienced - in order to persuade her to talk to the people - Roslin basically makes a point that he’s never tried holding their lives in balance so he can’t possibly understand her choice to minimize contacts and maximize distance - which I address with the help of that shot of Lee leading Pegasus into battle and some S1/2 footage again - and by doing so I continue the polemics.
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