BSG Vid: Sammy: 2,029 Years

[beccatoria]

Yay! Finally I can post this! It was made for the extremely fun twelvecolonies vid challenge. Also, I won! Eeeee!

Title: Sammy: 2,029 Years
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: Slow Show // The National
Summary: Sam dreamed about you for 29 years before he saw you.
Editor's Notes: Made for the twelvecolonies vidding challenge. Thanks you guys

Comments

[meiou_set]

So haunting! I love your inclusion of the piano scenes. The editing was superb.

[beccatoria]

Thank you! :D

I'm really glad you enjoyed the piano scenes. I wanted an excuse to use them in a vid and this seemed appropriate given the mythological connection between Kara and Sam.

[colls]

I commented over at twelvecolonies but wanted to comment here, too. Fabulous job and congratulations!! :)

[beccatoria]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it and thanks for coming all the way over to my LJ to comments. :)

[emmiere]

EEE! I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE THIS POSTED!

'Cause, you know, I can now snag this to play on repeat instead of scrolling through entries at twelvecolonies. ;)

And because it's just gorgeous and to steal from the commenter above me, haunting, apart from hitting a bunch of my personal character and show buttons. :) I absolutely love the visual combination of Kara exploding with the mandala and the reach for the datastream that closes the Eight's eyes at 1:08. Also, how the Hybrid isn't so much "OMG, foreshadowing!" of something he's going to be, but sort of the consciousness he's already tapping into.

Congrats! Robots FTW!

[beccatoria]

EEEE! Thank you I'm so glad you're excited! :D

Thanks for letting me know the parts you enjoyed; I was really pleased with how the mandala overlay turned out too and was hoping someone would notice the datastream/dead eight juxtaposition.

Also, how the Hybrid isn't so much "OMG, foreshadowing!" of something he's going to be, but sort of the consciousness he's already tapping into.

<3 you. Because yes. I mean, it's not like I hate hybrid Anders with the fire of a thousand suns, unlike large tracts of later 4.5, but...it just...I never felt it was as satisfying as No Exit promised it should be? And you put it perfectly; he was already like that. The cool part of it was the hybrid consciousness, the idea that he was tapping into something so epic and far-reaching and mythic. That's what I love and what I want to keep?

In conclusion, thank you so much, and robots FTW!

[beccatoria]

Thank you so much for such a detailed and thoughtful comment. I'm so glad that the speed-of-thought-everything-at-once thing - that's exactly what I was going for. Everything in his life leading up to this moment, and now, all the pieces - the whole 29 years - falling into place?

Like you, the hybrid concept was...not something I was originally overly enamored with. As you say, there's so much amazing mythology there, but I also mourned the loss of, well, the character in many ways. He stopped being Sam and became a hybrid, which is why I think I rooted this so strongly in No Exit, one of my favourite episodes ever, because it was all so perfect there. This amazing, epic tale and Sam stood in the middle of it, like we never thought he would be, but still a perfect fit? /pretentions

[rose_griffes]

Guh, this is preeeeeeeetty.

[beccatoria]

Thank you! :D