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beccatoria) wrote2009-02-02 01:43 pm
beccatoria) wrote2009-02-02 01:43 pm
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BSG Vid: About Today (Bill Adama and his family)
Title: About Today
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: About Today - The National
Spoilers: Through 4x11 Sometimes a Great Notion.
Summary: "Nobody's going anywhere." Except they are, and they do, and Bill Adama either doesn't or won't understand how to make it stop. (Kara, Lee, Laura, Saul.)
Editor's Notes: With thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaila43 and grrl_unscripted for the beta and the wonderful pro- and anti-Adama perspectives.
I don't usually do this; usually I want the vid to stand alone, and if it can't, that's my failing. In this instance, since everyone and their dog and their mum knows that I strongly dislike Bill Adama and his stupid face, and now I'm suddenly popping up with a vid about him, I ought to do some amount of explanation.
This vid did not change my opinion of him one bit. But I'm not actually setting out to change your opinion of him one bit either.
If this vid rails against anything, it's not against the people who like Adama, it's against the image of a flawless, heroic Adama, that I too often feel the show and perhaps some sections of fandom, succumb to.
To say that this is "just the facts, ma'am," would be arrogant in the extreme. I don't presume to be unobjective in this. But what I am at least trying to do here is take a step back from my own anger toward him, and present him in the most unbiased way I can.
I see this man, inflexible, passive, watching as all the people he loves get hurt again and again and again, unwilling or unable to really understand why or how to help - I see him and I want to smack him in the mouth.
Some of you may see him and feel sympathy. Some might see him and feel indifference. And that's okay. I'm trying, with this vid, to make a statement about who I think he is, not how I think people should feel about him.
At least, I hope. And I hope you enjoy the video too.
Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 50 megs approx.
Password: vidses
Cross-posted to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
galactica_vids and vidding
Other vids available here.
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: About Today - The National
Spoilers: Through 4x11 Sometimes a Great Notion.
Summary: "Nobody's going anywhere." Except they are, and they do, and Bill Adama either doesn't or won't understand how to make it stop. (Kara, Lee, Laura, Saul.)
Editor's Notes: With thanks to
chaila43 and grrl_unscripted for the beta and the wonderful pro- and anti-Adama perspectives. I don't usually do this; usually I want the vid to stand alone, and if it can't, that's my failing. In this instance, since everyone and their dog and their mum knows that I strongly dislike Bill Adama and his stupid face, and now I'm suddenly popping up with a vid about him, I ought to do some amount of explanation.
This vid did not change my opinion of him one bit. But I'm not actually setting out to change your opinion of him one bit either.
If this vid rails against anything, it's not against the people who like Adama, it's against the image of a flawless, heroic Adama, that I too often feel the show and perhaps some sections of fandom, succumb to.
To say that this is "just the facts, ma'am," would be arrogant in the extreme. I don't presume to be unobjective in this. But what I am at least trying to do here is take a step back from my own anger toward him, and present him in the most unbiased way I can.
I see this man, inflexible, passive, watching as all the people he loves get hurt again and again and again, unwilling or unable to really understand why or how to help - I see him and I want to smack him in the mouth.
Some of you may see him and feel sympathy. Some might see him and feel indifference. And that's okay. I'm trying, with this vid, to make a statement about who I think he is, not how I think people should feel about him.
At least, I hope. And I hope you enjoy the video too.
Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 50 megs approx.
Password: vidses
Cross-posted to
galactica_vids and viddingOther vids available here.
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I think that you have good points about how isolated Roslin is, both through choice and because her people die more. I absolutely agree that one of the things about this is that Adama really isn't isolated except as a result of his own inability to connect. He's one of the people who lost the least in the attacks, I think. I mean, he still lost so much, but he didn't lose his son, his best friend, his adoptive daughter and he gained Laura. He has a strong nuclear family formation.
Which sort of makes his behaviour toward them all the more incomprehensible to me, but...I'm definitely glad I managed to show some of that tangled web in the vid. :)
Thanks again for your feedback.