BSG Vid: Dolled-up in Straps (Baltar/HeadSix)

[beccatoria]

I'm not entirely sure whether this one counts as a 'shipper vid... o_O

Title: Dolled-up in Straps
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: All dolled-up in straps // The National
Summary: Gaius Baltar is a love letter to no one. (Baltar/HeadSix, Sixes)
Editor's Notes: As usual, my thanks to my beta cyborganize.

Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 50 megs approx.

Password: vidses

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Cross-posted to galactica_vids and vidding

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(In case you were wondering, yes, this does mark the beginning of my vidding obsession with The National; expect another vid and a vidlet hopefully before 4.5 starts. You know; it'll be nice to have my life back, BSG. :/ Maybe one day I'll even learn to vid things that aren't you...)

Comments

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

No, not Vista!!! I refuse to put Vista on my computer until I'm forced to. And I know it seems to cause bitmapping in others' vids in WMM which seems like a nightmare. Farewell, glowy thing. :-( I had such plans for the glows too.

HeadSix took Six's anger, her absolute certainty and conviction and then magnified it through Baltar's subconscious. Caprica lost those things because of her experiences after her first death. It's amazing how different that makes them.
I miss Head!Six's righteous anger. Gina had a bit of it but only wanted to use it to kill or to die. And Natalie was so very righteous but her anger was . . . tempered. She had that certainty,though. Head!Six was about unapologetic rage.

I don't know where Caprica is now in her anger or what is going on with her and Tigh.

What I see in the vid too is the Six's pain. They all have it running through them and it makes them sympathetic. Even Head!Six, sometimes Baltar hurt her so. And he doesn't seem to realize that. It's all very fascinating to watch in your vid.

You're very welcome. I'm going to have to search for something similar to the glowy thing in Windows XP. Hmm . . .

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I've never had a lot of trouble with Vista, but I know too many bad stories to believe that's an accurate assessment for most people. I mean, I do have trouble with it, just not more than I have with all the rest of windows...

Then again, I'm had Vista since a few months after it came out so maybe I just don't notice by now. I'm not so familiar with custom effects available for XP for that reason, but google it and I'm sure you'll find loads; I'd be surprised if you didn't find some sort of glowy thing!

Well, we've seen so little of Caprica this season *shakes fist*

But remember when she decked Tigh in the S3 finale after he decked her for bringing up Ellen? That was frakking awesome right there.

And she certainly has her righteousness. Sort of. I mean, the whole beating the shit out of Tigh in some jubilant state of religious ecstacy was hella creepy/awesome...

And he doesn't seem to realize that.

Totally. I think that's a good chunk of what I was trying to say in the vid. Gaius can't cope with reality; can't understand anything that's more than half a centimeter from himself except in terms of how it relates to himself.

The vid's about how he chooses HeadSix over the inadequate realworld Sixes, but truthfully, HeadSix is, well, him, or at least a woman manufactured solely for him which is equally icky. So the vid is about how Baltar doesn't really love or perhaps even care about anyone except himself?

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Ignoring the rest of your very smart talk about this vid to dwell on technical stuff: Namely, I'm bookmarking that custom site because you know I was like "Damn Obi-Wan, how you do that glowy thing?" and to say that I have Vista and I don't think it's as problematic as people make it out to be. Granted I just got my version not long ago, so maybe they worked out the kinks, but as far as WMM goes...let's see I just finished my 7th vid and after #3 I've had (knocks on wood) no issues with crashing or pixellation or anything! I think it's down to a new codec package I downloaded at that time, but not sure. Also possibly I got smarter about the way I was pulling in episodes/clips.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind my asking, how do you pull the eps in differently?

I'm still avoiding dealing with codecs. But it's getting annoying. I'm not even vidding but codecs are posing a problem with just watching some avis now.

:-( Now Windows Media Player wants to hate me! I just want to watch vids! DIVX player works. But still it's all weird to me.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Re: pulling the eps...I meant that I've been more careful about keeping my collection folder pretty clean and excising the "extra" bits of episodes and clips that I really am not using.