BSG Vidlet: Five Loves Six Found

[beccatoria]

Here's my seventh response to thearchive2's challenges!

Title: Five Loves Six Found
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
Summary: Five loves Six found: four that killed her; one that didn't.
Editor's Notes: As always, my thanks to cyborganize for the beta! This is in response to thearchive2's seventh challenge: found.

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Comments

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Very interesting concept! =D

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[beerbad.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT! (Uh... no pun intended?) What about Helena?

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT! (Uh... no pun intended?)

HEE! (I liked the pun...)

What about Helena?

Yeah, there are quite a few 'loves' left out, including Gaius from Gina's POV and D'anna from Caprica's. I could have traced Gina's death to her love for Cain but it didn't seem right or as compelling, narratively, as making the actual nuke one of her loves. Cus look at her face when she sees it and tell me that's not love - love of the possibility of revolution, love of destruction, love of power, love of finally managing to commit an act entirely on her own terms - whatever. It was love. (Or perhaps I just sekritly wanted to make a Gina/Gaius/Nuke vidlet to go with 'Scar'... :p)

Basically I liked the unexpected materialism of it, and the fact it wasn't a person like the others. And I still can't help but think of Cain as the love that didn't kill her even though she expected it to. And while her experiences on board the Pegasus and the her relationship with Gaius were both contributory to Gina's mindset when she detonated the thing, I don't want to reduce her actions down to a reflexive response to either person?

Bah, I'm no longer sure. The point is, it's a nuke! Gina's in love with it! Gina/Nuke OTP!

[projectcyborg.livejournal.com]

this just occurred to me as well when I was tagging it. funny that it didn't before! probably because the vid is very coherently structured around Six's deaths/endpoints, and Cain isn't one of them, as it turns out.

oh darling

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

The Sixes always feel like they're searching for something.

I'm still surprised that there's no Cain, but I get it and completely agree with your reasoning.

I really like the use of jumpcut editing. While time toggles get the job done, sometimes jumpcuts service the purpose better. The red glowy spine, Gina's hand reaching for the fruit, and Caprica's hand are my favorites.

Re: oh darling

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yes, they do! I hope they find it some day.

I'm glad that the decision to leave Cain out of it works for you.

I'm also superpleased that the jump cutting is working. I thought about time toggles or fades or what-have-you, but I decided that I wanted it in tension with the romantic music and that it was more mechanical and unexpected to use the cuts. The red glowy spine bit was the first time I decided to try to use much, much faster cuts to see if it improved the concept or just ended up confusing, so I'm glad that's a favourite of yours: I love it to. As with Gina's hand - it's so...creepy? Or maybe just sad. :(

Anyway, thanks for the feedback!

Re: oh darling

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I how your use of the jump cuts. It really suited you and the vid.

For me, Gina's hand was a startling sadness because it's disconnected even from itself.

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

I love this one too! Six/bomb FTW :)

I am really impressed with the way you did the cutting, especially--it adds so much to both the song, making it edgier-feeling as is fitting for the general messed-up-mess of Sixes' loves, and to the story you're telling.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad you like it and especially glad you enjoyed the cutting. I'm thrilled that you associated it with the fractured nature of the Sixes. I also like the way it seems kind of...mechanical?

Six/Bomb might be my new Humanoid/Weapon Of Destruction OTP. Move over Kara/Scar. ;)