BSG Vid: Moon vs. Sun

[beccatoria]

VID BACKLOG!

So yes, here it is, my 4.5 vid. Sort of. At the end.

But tell me, Becka, how do you really feel? ;)

Title: Moon vs. Sun
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: Sun vs. Moon // Sage Francis
Summary: Laura and Gaius engage in a rap battle. God is the corrupt judge.
Warning: OMGSWEARING!
Editor's Notes: My thanks to cyborganize, chaila43 and metatxt, without whom it would be largely incoherent. Any problems remaining are solely as a result of my pigheaded obstinacy. ;)

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Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I understand that you were curious, and my hope that I was able to clarify some aspects of that for you was genuine.

I feel I should clarify, though, that in differentiate season 4.0 (which contained both the episodes you mentioned) and season 4.5. I love season 4.0. While I do not necessarily think it is objectively the best run of episodes in the show, it's certainly my favourite (or at least a strong contender for that title). This is in no small part due to the epic prominence of the women involved. A lot of them die, sure, but that's only because, during those 10 episodes, everything is so overwhelmingly about them. I felt this changed radically in 4.5 for pretty much everyone except Kara, and even Ellen, given a hugely important role, was essentially only there as a fountain of exposition and a jealous wife. She didn't actually do anything.

I see what you're saying about Roslin and Baltar in the earlier seasons, but I really enjoyed that because I felt like it was playing against type. The brutality and cowardly selfishness of Baltar's actions were played against his very gentle personality, whereas Laura's obvious compassion and devotion to her people and bravery was played against an ability to be extraordinarily cold and brutal when necessary. At that point in the show I thought the balance was very well made. I don't know how others reacted, but I never felt the show was unsympathetic to either, or overly apologetic for Baltar's behaviour, and again, it was the decision to lose that complexity in regard to Baltar in the finale that disappointed me.

As to the romance in 4.5, I'm sorry but we absolutely disagree. While I was never a fan of the A/R romance, I was completely prepared to accept it, and indeed thought that was where we were headed for a long time. The difference is, while one could argue that her developing romance with Adama is organic, her complete lack of any storyline other than that is not. There was absolutely no reason that the show could not have given her a romantic storyline and a political one - Adama, after all, got his romance with Roslin and his role as Admiral, the loss of the ship, etc., to deal with. But Laura, after she throws her pills in the trash can and quits on treatment, well, we really never see things from her perspective again, unless you count a one minute scene with Lee in No Exit after the massacre of the quorum. During the mutiny plotline, concern for her boyfriend is posited as her chief concern - not the survival of her species - the yardstick by which every other decision she has ever made has been measured and by which all her atrocities are justified. No, her boyfriend.

I was not against her getting a romantic plotline, but I was emphatically against her getting that plotline at the expense of all others. And yes, I am aware she was dying. She was dying in the middle of season two, AND getting romantic aspects to her story and she was also ordering assassinations and being really, really interesting.

I never, ever felt that we hadn't seen her being emotional before 4.5. In fact, something I loved fiercely about McDonnell's performance was her ability to make me know she felt every coldly pragmatic thing she did. Her near-tears when Hera is lost. Her fear at her own mortality. Her love for Billy. Her joy at finding Earth. Her anger at Baltar. Her terror when she almost kills him. Her disgust at Tigh for using suicide bombers. I could go on.

So anyway, I hope that helps in clarifying why I hated her 4.5 plotline. It really isn't that I just wanted her to be cold and miserable, and lonely, I promise. I just...wanted her to have...something to do other than being someone else's dying girlfriend.

I understand you saw it differently and probably I'd be happier if I saw it as you do, but I've tried and I can't. :( I hope at least this helps you understand my perspective slightly more even if you aren't going to agree with it?

[sjwashere.livejournal.com]

I hope at least this helps you understand my perspective slightly more even if you aren't going to agree with it?

Definitely and thanks again for replying :)