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Ironically, my first occasion to use my shiny new icon for a vid post and it's not even about the Cylon. I'm sure the subjects of this vid would disapprove mightily. ;)

Title: Trapdoor Trigger
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: 90-mile Water Wall // The National
Spoilers: Through 4x14 Blood on the Scales.
Summary: The arbitrary brutality of civilian life.
Editor's Notes: As always, my thanks to [livejournal.com profile] cyborganize for the beta. Also I used Pinnacle to edit this, which was an...interesting experience. I'm still trying to work out how I feel about it.

Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 33 megs approx.

Password: vidses


Cross-posted to [livejournal.com profile] galactica_vids and [livejournal.com profile] vidding.

Other vids available here.

Date: 2009-03-07 01:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaila.livejournal.com
SQUEEEEEEE!!!! YOU DID NOT VID THIS SONG!!!! I have been wanting a BSG vid to this song for-ev-er and here you've gone and made it! Okay, initial flail over so I'm going to go, er, watch it now. . . [saves space]

As always, this is gorgeous. Really, really fabulous use of the song and the metaphor of the arbitrary violence as a tidal wave is really kind of awesome. I also love how you've used Laura here, as others have said, maybe not as oblivious to the indiviudal members of the fleet, but certainly apparently so, seemingly less concerned for them than as the fleet in the abstract. It's hard to show the Roslin cabal from the POV of the fleet, as we get so little from the fleet's eye view in the show, but the way you've edited this deftly gets that across. From many of their points of view, I imagine she IS a straight-up dictator and your intercutting with her and the violence gutted me for that reason. Really great tie-in with Gaeta and the mutiny too. I have a feeling that I'll love this more every time I watch it.
Edited Date: 2009-03-07 04:23 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-03-07 09:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beccatoria.livejournal.com
OH RELIEF. When I first read that first part, I thought you meant you wanted to vid this song and I'd stolen it from you, and I was like, NOOO MAKE IT ANYWAY! But apparently not and I can just be happy I made something you wanted appear in the world AS IF BY MAGIC. ;)

I'm really glad you like it and yeah, I'm completely on the same page with you about Laura (SHOCKING, NO?) She's not oblivious at all, but I'm sure that's how she seems. I mentioned in another comment, one of the reasons the white board fascinates me so is that to me, it's clearly such an expression of her love for her people, the only way she can care for them all at once. But at the same time it's such a coldly mathematical thing; so many terrible things have been done in service to it. What does it look like from the perspective of the numbers?

Anyway, thank you for your feedback. It's always wonderful to receive!

Date: 2009-03-07 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaila.livejournal.com
Oh dude, no not at all. (How do you steal something you don't know about?! Silly!) I'd only ever thought "that should be a vid." But I think that about half of the songs by The National. Clearly I had no brilliant idea like this one.

I THINK YOUR BRAIN MIGHT ACTUALLY BE MAGIC.

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