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. ;)

Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 35 megs approx.

Password: vidses

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Cross-posted to galactica_vids, thearchive2 and vidding

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Comments

Re: One Year Later!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks for taking the time to write this up and you are super articulate.

I'm so gleeful that you love the cigar on "let's begin" as that was one of the earlier images I had and I know for sure I was like, "Dude, that will SLAY ME OMG." I'm also squeeful that you got that the Opera House was being used as a rhythm in her freestyle!

Re: the word "bitch," I do understand why you're oversensitised to it. So am I, which a lot of people then turn around and eyebrow arch at me because I say things like, "Shut up, bitch!" to my husband all the time and then he'll be like, "No, you shut up, bitch!" but it's...entirely us taking the piss and being stupid and daft and often intentionally ironic, and I feel safe with him because he never, ever uses it in any other context and also he does shit like go off on epic rants to rather sexist mutual acquaintances about how fucking awful the portrayal of women was in the latest Terminator movie, which is never not endearing. But then, people seem me and him joking around like that and get confused about why I get soooo defensive about it at other times. Like on television, I have a whole...thing where I feel almost physically uncomfortable when a guy calls a woman a bitch in certain contexts. I almost prefer it when the guy's clearly an ass trying to like, beat up a woman or something (I mean, I hate that trope for other reasons, but in terms of the word) because at least it is what it is. But I have this massive, epic hate-on for the way that "you're a real bitch, you know that?" and other derivatives are thrown around at powerful women by their male counterparts in what isn't even veiled sexism and yet is coded as edgy "gender equality" by the networks.

Which is a long-winded way of saying, yeah, had I been aiming that at Laura, rather than at God, with Laura realising the truth of the statement you'd have been very right to question it and it would not have been an issue of being ultra-sensitized, it would be an issue of being a rational human being. I'm also not 100% happy with how clear that is because of Laura's religious status and the fact that it comes after a Laura section I can see that someone might mistake the target. But there isn't a visual of God to use and if I'd cut to Baltar I think that would have been even further off track because it would have been suggesting Baltar was God rather than his pointless pawn? So I went with what I wanted - Laura's moment of realisation. But I am profoundly grateful you had enough trust in me to go with me in that moment and think about it. <3

(Fortunately I seem to have missed most of the vids you're referring to... *shudder* Because, yeah, I cannot imagine approving of such a use of rap and Laura Roslin!)

Anyway, thanks so much for the response even if my response in turn is kind of all over the place. ;) Badass Laura 4EVA, and yes, you totally need a WTFLAURA?! version of that icon.