New BSG vid

[aycheb]

Title: Babies

Artist: Pulp

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica

Spoilers: Miniseries through to S3.01 (Occupation)

Characters/Pairings: Yes

Format:XviD

Size: 32.7 MB

Summary: Love is the plan, the plan is… Shameless plagiary of James Tiptree Jnr, sexual conflict, evolutionary theory and gratuitous space porn.

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Comments

[bop_radar]

I love, love, love this vid SO MUCH. For starters I love the song (Pulp fan from way back) and the fact that you vidded the Cylons and their children-obsession to it is just genius. The vid managed to both amuse and move me--it moved me in the creeped-out way that the Cylons and their reproductive agenda do on the show. But I also enjoyed giggling at the frakked-up-ness of Gaius and Six and Helo and Eight and Kara and Leoben, etc, etc.

I thought it worked well as an ensemble piece--it painted the overall picture of the Cylon obsession. And I loved your use of the explosions/space dockings and other phallic or fertile imagery to support the mood/theme of the piece. Much praise!

I hope you don't mind me reccing it? I think the fact I watched it four times in a row straightaway means it warrants much reccing... ;-)

[aycheb]

Wow, what fantastic feedback ::fans self:: You really got everything I was trying to do. And Pulp fan. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And rec, please do (is flattered).

[bop_radar]

You're welcome! It's been a real highlight of my week. Oh, and I forgot to say I really liked the darker twist at the end with the images of Kara in the pregnancy-farms on Caprica. I love that you included that imagery!

[obsessive24]

Oh my god, this was so creepy, but in such an amusing way. The way you used the upbeat song is just genius (reminiscent of sdwolfpup's "Fix You"), and I think this is the greatest number of space-phalluses I've ever seen in a 2:46 minute period. :D Tech-wise I loved the way it moved, the pace is excellent and the editing is flawless. Great job!

[aycheb]

"Fix You" is the vid I really wished I could have made from the first time I saw it. Well there are lots of vids I wish I could make but definitely that one. Irony always irony ::sighs::

[raincitygirl]

This vid was just...neat. Kookily offbeat, but in a0 fabulous way.

[aycheb]

Thank you! (tries womanfully to type while hypnotised by icon - which episode did James do the birdy dance in? Is he singing at the same time? Noooo!)

[raincitygirl]

I can't take credit for it. It was made by paddies, who is both prolific and talented on the icon front. The clip is from Colonial Day, when Starbuck catches Baltar masturbating in the lab, and he tries to cover by pretending he was doing wrist exercises.

[dualbunny]

I actually managed to figure out what to change in your link when you first posted this, but it's taken me a while to get the feedbacking part which is kinda sad. ;)

This is just awesome. :D The metaphorical imagery, ship and otherwise (hee!), mixed with the creepy single-mindedness of the Cylons is fantastic, but you don't vid the Cylons without sympathy and that's the icing on the cake. And the creepy-factor that kicks in with the crescendo of the nuke going off and moving into Sharon and Kara hits perfectly. I also adore the pacing in general with all the swoopy ships and camera movement intercut with the character shots.

[aycheb]

Smart people are cool. (Unlike people who think they don't need to work through all the Dreamweaver tutorials *g*)

This one was a blast to make, very different from Buffy, less metaphor but so much movement to play with. And I had to re-watch chunks just to remember when things happened and fell in love with S1 all over again.

[oxoniensis]

I mean it starts all Carry on up the Galaxy and ends up somewhere closer to Altman’s Three Women, which wasn’t in the plan.

It's funny reading that after watching the vid, because at first I was laughing, and then as the vid went on it all seemed so much more serious and desperate, and that the Cylons would go to any length to fulfill this longing. And I loved that aspect of the storytelling in the video, that it grew into something so powerful by the end, because the humour at the beginning and in the tone of the song made the horror of it all seem so much worse. Gorgeous work.

[aycheb]

Thank you! I was so hoping people might get that from the vid, it felt like a natural progression as I was making it even though I hadn't quite planned it that way from the beginning. Sometimes it's good to go with your instincts :-)