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

[chaila.livejournal.com]

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 writer god 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. :/

RAGE. <#

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

There aren't even WORDS for how awesome you are.

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

I fangirl your brain so much right now.

(And will hopefully have better feedback once I recover my own.)

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

That was so amazing! It's going to take soooo many rewatchings to unpack all of that but it is WORTH IT because damn that was a good vid. Yowza!

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

I could not love this more if I tried.

*tries*

*explodes*

.....

I'll have to slow back down to normal processing speeds to pick some more moments that really stand out, but the way you use motion within the clips here is killer. Ooh, and "this is one hand clapping alone..." and the way that shot of Earth repeating really hooks me into it as a 4.5 vid. In conclusion <3<3<3

ETA of nothing, I am incredibly amused by chaila and nicole's icons juxtaposed here. :D

[asta77.livejournal.com]

My brain is totally fried right now and in no shape to leave proper feedback, but I just wanted to say, LOVE IT! :)

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

OMG! YOU HAVE MADE ME ALL CAPSLOCKY WITH GLEE AND AWE! (Be back later with REAL feedback.)

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! Oh, I love this so very, very much!!!!! I'm running out the door right now and have no time for thinky thoughts, but just...wow! So many awesome layers here, and as Chaila said, I love that you're so unapologetic about what you're showing. Love it!!!!

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

This is amazing.

[meddow.livejournal.com]

The Roslin vs. Baltar conflict was my favourite thread of the series, so I love the very concept of this first part of the vid, and its execution is fantastic, and that alone would make the vid brilliant. But then in the second and third acts, when you turn change the conflict into one against god and break through the fourth wall, that is truly awesome.

The repetition of that shot of Earth really sticks with me, turning what was presented in the episode as an uplifting moment into something sinister. And I think it's fantastic that right at the end there you found a use for RDM's glaring cameo in the coda.

It is such a brilliant vid!

[grey-sw.livejournal.com]

Frakkin' epic. Seriously. Thank you.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

FRAKKING THIS. YES. (I have nothing coherent to add)

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was fabulous. The end just hits you so hard, like a sucker punch, and it needs to. The ohshit moment for me is when the shot goes from Gaeta to Dee to Boomer, then Cavil, Tigh, Adama, and Chief standing triumphant, and then later, the shots of Caprica and D'Anna and Laura. Guh. Awesome.

your video deserves all kinds of ALL-CAPS PRAISE

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Usually I stream videos before downloading them but because I'm scared of lj-toys now (what with the recent malware thing) I downloaded this and IT WAS SO WORTH IT. Like everyone else, I loved it so much as a whole but found my favorite part was when you broke the fourth wall. WHAT AN MAGNIFICENT ENDING TO YOUR VIDEO. I go rewatch now!

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeee! This was great! It's so Becka! I always like your song choices, they are so inspired! Song really is all.

I liked this vid because it's like watching a whole other show! Yes, I want more eps of this show and good thing because fans can make it where the real show wasn't like this. Fast paced and sharp. Well, it was a lot of the time, actually. But I wanted it this way all the time.

There were several things I liked that actually surprised me. Glimpses of Felix and even the reminders of Kara/Gaius. Very, very interesting. I loved the rewindy warpy thing at at 2:17. Excellent effect and of course we all here know what you mean by that. :-)

It is a vid that seems like you had loads of fun making! Didn't you enjoy making it? And now we get to have fun watching it too. :-)

And then the end! You go on with your unapologetic bad self. :-)

[sjwashere.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm out of the loop here. Found the link via bsgvidrecs. I love Baltar/Laura so I did enjoy the vid for the most part but I found the ending a little confusing in how it is supposed to relate to the overall Baltar/Laura conflict. Without getting into conflicting opinions over the female characters in season 4, I found the exploration of who is god interesting though I think mixing your opinions on Mr Moore with the actual canon of the Baltar/Laura storyline a little jarring.
It feels like there are two analogies going on here. The first poses god (potentially the cylon god?) as a weak minded petty individual who plays around with his children's lives like a child would torment an insect. That's an analogy I've always believed does suit the representation of the "god" in the BSG universe. The second analogy then poses the question that the writers (specifically Mr Moore) is actually this god. Now granted he is the creator of the show so I can see how the creator/god analogy may work but it seems a little I don't know, off perhaps? To apply such a harsh analysis of one person involved in the creative process.
Granted if this is just a little bit of fun that you've done to make up for story lines you didn't like then feel free to tell me I'm reading too much into it- I do that often.

That said..

Is Baltar suppose to represent Mr Moore in this video? I'm just still a little confused over the intersecting of the two analogies there.

this is the smallest violin

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is so amazingly complex and interesting. I could watch it on repeat and love it to death forever. The connections are brillant and rather hi-larious. I'm in love with the way to make meta. It's subtle, while being in your face at the same time. I can't explain it, but it's perfect. The lyric interpretations are fasinating too.

[samstareagle.livejournal.com]

I *just* finished reimagining the entire story after the moment Kara returns in my head (with some help from reworking Bear's score), so S4 is now, and fully dead to me as considering Galactica 1980 "canon". YAY!!! :P

Up yours, Ron...

[37-soul-sister.livejournal.com]

Hi, I was just linked to this vid. I have to say that although I don't share your feelings about 4.5, I have to say that I love your video. I may not agree, but I can see exactly where you are coming from and I love the way you were able to convey that with this video. I'll admit, not having your anti-4.5 (if we can call it that) mindset going into this, I was terribly confused by the ending, however once I read some of your thoughts on the ending, I re-watched your video and I had a whole new appreciation for it. It's really well done!

[goodbyebird]

Awesome stuff ♥