BSG VID: Cold

[m_a_r_i_k_s]

Song: Cold 
Artist: Evans Blue
Spoilers: up to A Son Also Rises 
Characters: Lee and Kara
Size: 42.7 mb, zip - avi + lyrics inside 
Download:  megaupload
YouTube: here

Commentary: this vid is a continuation of my bad habit to tell the story from Lee's character POV.  It's hard not to see that whatever he does has a direct or oblique connection to his soul

Comments

[brokenmnemonic]

Well, I've got 15 minutes before I go to London. Let's see how I do.

I'm stubborn and self-deprecating past the point of sanity. Hence the constant apologising. On the upside, it stops me becoming unplesantly egotistical. On the downside, it makes me annoying. I'll try and keep a grip on it.

Are you telling me the concentration of the clips and images per second is too high? …the effect I’m afraid of is to make people dizzy. There’s a fine line between enough of visual information and too much that I’m trying to grope and not to cross...
I loved it- like seeing a barrage of imagery descending that you can't try and track or control, just like the pilot dynamic. The second time I watched the video, I was expecting it - it made me want to stop and study all the flashed scenes, particularly around the 45 second mark, see what was lurking that I'd missed, try to follow the time of the frozen scenes, see how that changed teh music and what it made me concentrate on.

The overwhelming majority of such moments it’s when Lee is putting all the straight he has left in the attempt to be cold, but Kara has a unique skill to break through all of this, even if it means to play dirty or even cruel to get the desired emotional reaction from him.
Kara's the only person with a hook into Lee that's in all the right places to pull him apart. Sometimes she seems to do it because she can, other times she doesn't even know why. Perhaps that's why Lee/Dee never appealed - even if they had built the relationship using more than two scenes, Dee's never had the ability to destroy Lee. Kara has.

Don’t you ever doubt her feelings for him.
I do. Constantly. It's something that gives me no faith. It also lets me write, because if I was as sure as all the Kara fans seem to be, there'd be no nerves, no uncertainty - and that wouldn't transfer to the Lee I write.

That’s the effect I desperately wanted to use in Don’t Mess With Me for the first time but I didn’t have enough of grasp of Premiere Pro at that time and it took me a long time to make a reality of the pictures in my head.
It's a stunning effect, and one that works very well. I do love the way you keep managing to come up with things that make mejust stop and go "wow." Lots of videos start to look the same, because they tie the same scenes to the same emotions over and over, making it easy to let the mind wander. You use effects the way they were meant to be used - to keep the viewer hooked in, to make each viewing new and interesting.

Actually, when I saw the set of deleted scenes from S2.5 I stopped considering anything alike as deleted. I was amazed and annoyed because of how much they’d cut from Black Market. Most of all I couldn’t process why they’d want to cut something like the moment from Captain’s Hand where Lee brought up Kara’s shot directly.
I think that they cut that scene from Captain's Hand because it partly negated the locker room shot - they wanted that confusion in there, they wanted pilots to be disconnected. If Lee knew exactly why he was tearing into Kara, it would make him cruel, rather than dysfunctional.

Black Market bugs me - the episode needed to include most of those scenes they cut to have any chance of looking coherent.

That’s where I braced myself to hear some critical remark :)
Not critical. I was comisserating - it bugged me all through the S2 hiatus, up until I got my hands on some DVDs to rip from.

[m_a_r_i_k_s]

I've got 15 minutes before I go to London. Let's see how I do.

I'm flattered I earned a response before your leave at least. I thought you'd leave everything at that and was... hmm.. I guess pleased through the faint anger to be wrong :)

I do. Constantly. It's something that gives me no faith.

But you have no doubts in Lee’s feelings, right? And I’d assume you didn’t have any when the whole Lee/Dee story began to come about.

It’s interesting that as for the character’s broken nature, Lee is often underestimated and more difficult to understand than Kara, but Kara is more subtle and concealed when it comes to her strongest feelings - Lee’s are more obvious. And as much as Lee is the master at suppressing himself and hiding behind the façade of an iron man - Kara is the master at hiding her feelings by pretending… and making fake substitutions.

Pilots have doubts constantly, but we are given an opportunity to walk out of the epicenter of their pain and confusion sometimes and look from the outside and see… and try to distinguish.

I think that they cut that scene from Captain's Hand because it partly negated the locker room shot

Probably. But I still love it. And even if it doesn’t make much sense, one doesn’t contradict the other in my mind.

Not critical. I was commiserating

Yeah, I know. :) It’s just my bad habit to make assumptions ahead of everything.