BSG Vid: Ghosts (Caprica Six)

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Title: Ghosts.
Audio: Set the Fire to the Third Bar - Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright
Video: Battlestar Galactica
Spoilers: Through 4.08 and deleted scenes.
Summary: Caprica Six is a love letter no one has ever read.
Editor's Notes: Many, many thanks to cyborganize for her beta skills and to asta77 for making me think through my editing choices; whatever's left, the fault is entirely mine. ;)

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[mresundance.livejournal.com]

That was beautiful. Very well done character sketch. Thanks for sharing!

[earp-girl.livejournal.com]

I echo what the previous comment said, beautiful indeed. I love the music too. 6 is one of my favourite characters, her vulnerability is part of her allure. I really enjoyed this, well done.

[beerbad.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!!! :D

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Wow this is just fantastic, really highlights the tragedy of her character. Just great.

[gigglemonster.livejournal.com]

This was beautiful! You captured her character wonderfully and an awesome song choice :)

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

Caprica-Six is a favorite character of mine, and I absolutely love this vid. Great job!

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Oh, I adore this!!

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so gorgeous and fabulous!!! Great song choice and splendid editing. Such a journey Caprica's had so far.

(And I am possibly actually shipping Caprica/Tigh now. Or at least the best possible version of their relationship, which has little prayer of being actualized on screen. Um...)

[shipwreckblues.livejournal.com]

oh, this is SO gorgeous and perfect!~! thank you for making it & sharing it!

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Haunting. I love how the ghosting effect of the double vocal is echoed in the imagery. Caprica always slightly out of phase with the brave new world she made. Such a contrast with the flashback sequences. So sad always reaching for something that no longer exists for her neither Head Gaius nor current Baltar. Neither Saul Tigh nor the phantom of the Opera House. The way you tie in how death follows her around on the repeats of the “cold ground” lyric. Perfect ending, lovely work.

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

That's gorgeous, I love it.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was wonderful and sad. Here via a rec from nicole_anell--I'm not much of a vid-watcher, but the idea of a Caprica Six video was so intriguing, I decided to check it out. I'm glad I did.

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

my review! it's pretty hilarious how Pooja spent today making an archive of notes on our Marxism readings and I spent it making an archive of notes on BSG vids...

This vid takes very seriously the problem of how, visually, to tell the story of a love affair with someone who doesn't exist, and in the process conveys a sense of almost unbearable longing. The song is haunting (NB: there is no second bar) and consequently much vidded, I know (there's a stunning Jack/Ianto version by sol_se, and apparently a Kara/Lee rendition as well); you should watch this even if you think it's already defined for you, because Becka really sells it. She created a Byzantine, impressionistic structure, which I nonetheless find eloquent and fluid -- I don't think only because I became very intimate with it in the course of betaing. I can't even highlight favorite moments because so much of it is just breathtaking. Moreover, the vid feels IMPORTANT to me, an indictment of how much time BSG as a show (and often as a fandom) spends with Gauis and his wet dreams and how little considering their relationship from Caprica's POV. Here is her story: the incredible emotional and physical violence she endures in her fruitless quest for a partner who can match her bottomless capacity for love. It's sobering how different her fantasy lover is from Gaius and Gaius's (take note of how sparingly actual Gaius is used -- because it's not about him).

[chaila.livejournal.com]

I decided to assign myself some remedial vid feedbacking, because I really, really love this vid but have never told you so. Travesty! First, bookending “Over rivers, farms, and state lines” with rock-bashing D’Anna (Three? Whatever) = win! I love that lyric interpretation so, so much, with the whole idea of crossing borders. And Caprica may love her dysfunctional men, but I really loved how you used D’Anna and Boomer and Laura here. The D’Anna and Boomer bits on “lay down on the cold ground” are completely awesome and the opera house section is gorgeous and creepy and your editing there was perfect. Basically, this whole thing is just a really excellent character study for a character I have a hard time getting a handle on a lot of the time and I like it a lot. :)

[digital-med.livejournal.com]

Got linked by a friend who reccomended this and it was indeed fantastic. Such an excellent video and a great portrayal of Six. Keep up the great work :D