ext_72244 ([identity profile] millari.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] beccatoria 2008-12-19 02:51 am (UTC)

Wow, I don't know that I've ever heard a more perfect summary of the Head!Six/Caprica Six connection. Nor have I seen a vid that more precisely captures what fascinates me about the Head!Six/Baltar relationship. You caught exactly the moments in that brig scene from "Six Degrees" where he is most afraid and psychologically broken, much like "deprogammers" do to people taken away from cults.

In that episode, Head!Six's mission seems to have been to break Baltar down psychologically until he was so desperate that he lost all his arrogance, all his confidence, his atheism, all his defense mechanisms that had been helping him not think about the magnitude of what he'd unleashed in the Miniseries. As soon as he truly gave up all his coping mechanisms in that cell, Head!Six started to build his identity back up in her own mold and has been slowly doing so along the way, with many detours and bumps along the way, but her ultimately objective (whatever that is exactly) is slowly being realized. Your vid really understands all that.

I really like how you show that the first time all these elements really came together in the show is in that brig scene, and how you use clips from much later episodes in conjunction with that brig scene to really show the essence of Baltar's psychological and spiritual journey, filtered through his obsession with the Six model in all their forms.

In other words, great job. :)

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