TSCC VID: Howl (Jesse/Derek, Jesse/Riley)

[beccatoria]

My VIDWAR: ROBOT APOCALYPSE counterattack continues!

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Title: Howl
Video: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Audio: Howl // Florence + The Machine
Summary: The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound: I hunt for you with bloodied feet across the hallowed ground. (Jesse/Derek, Jesse/Riley).

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This is my second response to chaila43's counterchallenge.

This is the response to her ship vid challenge, and it remixes her Sarah/Ellison and Sarah/Cameron duo. To remix this, I decided to vid a het ship and a slash ship that have a female character in common - in this case Jesse Flores. And since I only get one vid, both ships are represented in the same vid. So in a way it ends up being a bit more of a Jesse vid than a ship vid, but I'm okay with that, AND SO IS REMIX VID MATH! ;) I also tried to play around a bit with the visuals since chaila43's pair of vids were kind of artsy, as were the original het/slash/female-character-in-common BSG vids I did so long ago, that started this particular thread of VIDWAR. ;) Also I reuse Florence + The Machine, in homage to the way she reused Sage Francis when remixing me.

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Comments

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

Also the swimming pool from "What He Beheld." Which is less a comment on anything in the vid (I don't think--unless I missed a clip in there somewhere) and more a comment on the way the show has been playing with this imagery all along.

And of course it's all so closely associated with salvation imagery, which is so deeply in the DNA of this series. The violence in "What He Beheld" is accompanied by Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around," which is about the biblical judgment day (the use of that term to describe the day the machines attack has always fascinated me). Cromartie dies in a church, his arms stretched out like Christ on the cross (and then he's buried and rises again--if John Connor is the savior, is John Henry the antichrist?). Salvation and rebirth through blood, fire, and water, and basically, this show handles the whole "God and Robots" theme SO much better than BSG ever did.

All of which comes back to Chaila's point that this show is so fucking smart in its use of imagery and detail that it's not a matter of making extrapolations but rather of just pointing out what's already there.

Anyway, tangent, mostly. Oh show!!!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

this show handles the whole "God and Robots" theme SO much better than BSG ever did.

You know even at the height of my BSG love I think I would have agreed with you, because BSG never did God and Robots all that well. BSG did religion well, and BSG fucked with the notion of what constituted a robot well. But the thing I love about Cylons, and divorcing myself from BSGFail what I still love about the concept of Cylons isn't what they say about the current state of robotics and AI. It's the philosophical questions they ask. It's the fact that they ceased being robots and became, rather, artificially constructed people. (Which I find amazingly fascinating for a whole host of different reasons).

But if you're talking about robots - about what constitutes sentience and thought rather than how we would react if we could no longer exclusively claim it - then TSCC is the show you go to.

Similarly, BSG portrayed - at its best - religion as a sociopolitical force and/or a genuinely divine power, but because Cylons weren't really robots anymore, it was really a show that dealt with religion AND dealt with robots (or rather, constructed people), rather than dealing with how religion handles robots and vice versa.

But then, of course, 4.5 showed up and trashed everything. So you know, there's also that. :(

Anyway, tangent, mostly. Oh show!!!

DITTO. ;)