playing with it seemed appropriate with this "Well, I'm sorry!"(but you brought this on yourself!" kind of line)). Hahaha, yeah that's it exactly! it's one of those 'sorry's that immediately get undermined by explaining WHY. ;p There's that edge of defiance in it!
"I'm sorry sweetie but this shouldn't be THIS surprising to you!")))) Yeah, that's the feeling I get in response EXACTLY and it totally charms me. Actually makes me love him even more while also really seeing this quite extreme blindness and naivety here. Very very human. That's the thing, he WAS trying to find meaning and sort through things in Black Market... he was just really deep in confusion. And I still struggle to understand why more people can't see and relate to that--after all, aren't so many of us pretty blind but wellmeaning in life?
The delivery of the singer is AMAZING. It makes me want to learn the Russian so I can sing along because the intonation is soooo addictively good. I can feel his biting humour (with deep truth underneath) so strongly.
how Baltar just physically can't stand the freedom and outward nonchalance with which Lee's talking about his life and death Hahaha, yeah... they were the hugest contrast to each other. And it makes me remember how much I loved another shot of Baltar from that period, in the courtroom when he just stares TOTALLY AGHAST and DESPAIRING at Lee. Like 'who the fuck is this lunatic defending me?' When I was all 'no youuuuuuu're the madman here!!' But yeah, it's such a classic reaction of recoiling! :D :D
"anyone who isn't right" line is probably the deepest truths of all in the whole video *nods* It was the line that REALLY got me thinking a lot in response to it ... Others like the 'God' line were just a total recognition and JOY at seeing it expressed and then joyfully feeling its different layers of resonance. But this one made me really start thinking--and I think it's so rare to find a lyric that can express something like this, about this subtle but fundamental nature of Lee's. And you uncover something critical about him. Then, as you say, it really changes us to ask 'well how DO we determine who is right?' And suddenly from being a joke it starts to seem like maybe Lee is the one who has hit the nail on the head instead. What's amazing though is that although he DOES feel that--is able to see multiple sides of situations--it doesn't paralyse him: at least not most of the time ;). He does listen to his own internal wisdom. But even when he argues for a certain viewpoint, I always feel like if someone proved to him that something else was right and he really felt that, he would change his mind. We SEE him change his mind sometimes. We see him listen to things and be swayed... and I like seeing it! Because I hate, hate, hate that human trait of clinging to some belief at all costs out of ego. What's so bad about expanding or changing your mind? And saying 'hey maybe I was wrong after this, or you are more right here'?
But those floating moments you discuss--yeah... I hadn't thought of it exactly like that but it's true and very rare to have portrayed in television where writers like to have characters neatly opposed to each other so viewers can follow. :p But to broaden out from television those 'floating' moments of suspending our previously held beliefs and opening to different possibilities are so beautiful and important... what makes personal and collective transformation possible. AMAZING!!! I just revel in your ability to show such a subtlety in a vid. It renews my faith in vids as a medium for expressing truths and beauty and something original!
Hahaha, yeah that's it exactly! it's one of those 'sorry's that immediately get undermined by explaining WHY. ;p There's that edge of defiance in it!
"I'm sorry sweetie but this shouldn't be THIS surprising to you!"))))
Yeah, that's the feeling I get in response EXACTLY and it totally charms me. Actually makes me love him even more while also really seeing this quite extreme blindness and naivety here. Very very human. That's the thing, he WAS trying to find meaning and sort through things in Black Market... he was just really deep in confusion. And I still struggle to understand why more people can't see and relate to that--after all, aren't so many of us pretty blind but wellmeaning in life?
The delivery of the singer is AMAZING. It makes me want to learn the Russian so I can sing along because the intonation is soooo addictively good. I can feel his biting humour (with deep truth underneath) so strongly.
how Baltar just physically can't stand the freedom and outward nonchalance with which Lee's talking about his life and death
Hahaha, yeah... they were the hugest contrast to each other. And it makes me remember how much I loved another shot of Baltar from that period, in the courtroom when he just stares TOTALLY AGHAST and DESPAIRING at Lee. Like 'who the fuck is this lunatic defending me?' When I was all 'no youuuuuuu're the madman here!!' But yeah, it's such a classic reaction of recoiling! :D :D
"anyone who isn't right" line is probably the deepest truths of all in the whole video
*nods* It was the line that REALLY got me thinking a lot in response to it ... Others like the 'God' line were just a total recognition and JOY at seeing it expressed and then joyfully feeling its different layers of resonance. But this one made me really start thinking--and I think it's so rare to find a lyric that can express something like this, about this subtle but fundamental nature of Lee's. And you uncover something critical about him. Then, as you say, it really changes us to ask 'well how DO we determine who is right?' And suddenly from being a joke it starts to seem like maybe Lee is the one who has hit the nail on the head instead. What's amazing though is that although he DOES feel that--is able to see multiple sides of situations--it doesn't paralyse him: at least not most of the time ;). He does listen to his own internal wisdom. But even when he argues for a certain viewpoint, I always feel like if someone proved to him that something else was right and he really felt that, he would change his mind. We SEE him change his mind sometimes. We see him listen to things and be swayed... and I like seeing it! Because I hate, hate, hate that human trait of clinging to some belief at all costs out of ego. What's so bad about expanding or changing your mind? And saying 'hey maybe I was wrong after this, or you are more right here'?
But those floating moments you discuss--yeah... I hadn't thought of it exactly like that but it's true and very rare to have portrayed in television where writers like to have characters neatly opposed to each other so viewers can follow. :p But to broaden out from television those 'floating' moments of suspending our previously held beliefs and opening to different possibilities are so beautiful and important... what makes personal and collective transformation possible. AMAZING!!! I just revel in your ability to show such a subtlety in a vid. It renews my faith in vids as a medium for expressing truths and beauty and something original!
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