EEEE! Win! Other expressions of glee! Did I mention at any point that I love this? It's so aggressive and unapologetic in its argument, as it should be.
Mostly I love how it captures both what was awesome about the show at its best, the ambiguity and thinkiness, and also exactly when, where and how it failed in the end. Putting both in the same vid is so effective. The possiblity that Laura was every bit as much of a fraud as Baltar was one of my favorite things, and the sun vs. moon section really captures that (and I'm still surprised to realize that's all from season 4.0! How the hell did it go so badly so quickly?!). Then the whole thing failed when Baltar was not a fraud, when RDM failed at writing an end to all that gorgeous complexity in favor of simplistic drivel, when he failed spectacularly as God. Laura never had a chance, because the writergod devil was a fucking white man all along, and in the end, it was about Adama, Tigh and Chief, not Laura or Caprica or Tory. It's still striking to see the women die and otherwise give up, while the men do their thing, in addition to all of it just being DUMB and kind of morally bankrupt as an ending.
And Laura moving backwards through scenes of A/R fail is the perfect holy line of demarcation between Good BSG and Bad BSG. That final opera house scene will never not piss me off, but I'm actually surprised how re-ragey the 4.Fail section makes me when I watch it. Especially Adama/Bill making out while Caprica cries over the baby who died because Daddy didn't love her and, of course, Tory and Chief. Grrr. I continue to love the editing here, but especially Gaeta to Dee to Boomer.
In conclusion, Ron Moore IS a bitch and we're all a bunch of suckers for buying into it. :/
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Date: 2009-09-25 12:08 am (UTC)Mostly I love how it captures both what was awesome about the show at its best, the ambiguity and thinkiness, and also exactly when, where and how it failed in the end. Putting both in the same vid is so effective. The possiblity that Laura was every bit as much of a fraud as Baltar was one of my favorite things, and the sun vs. moon section really captures that (and I'm still surprised to realize that's all from season 4.0! How the hell did it go so badly so quickly?!). Then the whole thing failed when Baltar was not a fraud, when RDM failed at writing an end to all that gorgeous complexity in favor of simplistic drivel, when he failed spectacularly as God. Laura never had a chance, because the
writergoddevil was a fucking white man all along, and in the end, it was about Adama, Tigh and Chief, not Laura or Caprica or Tory. It's still striking to see the women die and otherwise give up, while the men do their thing, in addition to all of it just being DUMB and kind of morally bankrupt as an ending.And Laura moving backwards through scenes of A/R fail is the perfect holy line of demarcation between Good BSG and Bad BSG. That final opera house scene will never not piss me off, but I'm actually surprised how re-ragey the 4.Fail section makes me when I watch it. Especially Adama/Bill making out while Caprica cries over the baby who died because Daddy didn't love her and, of course, Tory and Chief. Grrr. I continue to love the editing here, but especially Gaeta to Dee to Boomer.
In conclusion, Ron Moore IS a bitch and we're all a bunch of suckers for buying into it. :/
RAGE. <#