Wow, that was amazing. Such powerful use of external footage. Often when I see external footage it seems random - unclear what's happening, but you blend it so well with the sports and the piano and the actresses that look right for the part - it's a fullblown and brutal narrative. I'm also really impressed by the way you carry your visual parallels - such as the reaching - the palms of hands - through all your sources, external and BSG - it makes it feel really cohesive.
Thanks for sharing this - definitely one I'll be downloading.
ETA: Just read your author's notes and want to agree about the very odd way that the ultimate treatment of Kara's destiny seemed like a justification for what happened to her. I have incredibly complex feelings about the episode Maelstrom mainly because I think it works perfectly as an exploration of Kara's state of mind before she committed suicide - fitting an impossible, childishly perfect reconciliation with her mother into the only space in her entire life it could still fit - the last few weeks of her life. But unfortunately I think the show probably meant it to be a peaceful and forgiving experience, rather than one to show us just how broken she was. It's a shame, because they could have done something spectacularly dark with that. I think I would have followed them on a story about how Kara had to be that messed up so she'd kill herself because if she didn't die in that Maelstrom, she never could have done...whatever it was she was supposed to do - if the story had just acknowledged that this was something really messed up. But it sort of...didn't. And as things stand I think the shot at the end of Maelstrom with Little Girl Kara all happy in white light as she's committing suicide is probably the creepiest in the whole show.
Aaaaand, I'm done. Sorry, long rant there I didn't know I still had in me. Suffice to say I agree with you and they didn't do justice to the material they had there.
Thanks for sharing this - definitely one I'll be downloading.
ETA: Just read your author's notes and want to agree about the very odd way that the ultimate treatment of Kara's destiny seemed like a justification for what happened to her. I have incredibly complex feelings about the episode Maelstrom mainly because I think it works perfectly as an exploration of Kara's state of mind before she committed suicide - fitting an impossible, childishly perfect reconciliation with her mother into the only space in her entire life it could still fit - the last few weeks of her life. But unfortunately I think the show probably meant it to be a peaceful and forgiving experience, rather than one to show us just how broken she was. It's a shame, because they could have done something spectacularly dark with that. I think I would have followed them on a story about how Kara had to be that messed up so she'd kill herself because if she didn't die in that Maelstrom, she never could have done...whatever it was she was supposed to do - if the story had just acknowledged that this was something really messed up. But it sort of...didn't. And as things stand I think the shot at the end of Maelstrom with Little Girl Kara all happy in white light as she's committing suicide is probably the creepiest in the whole show.
Aaaaand, I'm done. Sorry, long rant there I didn't know I still had in me. Suffice to say I agree with you and they didn't do justice to the material they had there.
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