Vidding Trio: A rec, getting linked in weird ways, and the stuff SciFi hides from us...

[beccatoria]

1) A rec:

obsessive24 has made an absolutely incredible BSG vid - Slow Down Gandhi. It's about the politics of the mutiny, the fate of the underclasses, the abuse of power in the political and military hierarchies, dangling Earth like a carrot while letting Cylon fill the Fleet. And it manages to do this in a way that also invites the viewer to cast a critical eye on the vid's narrators - Gaeta, and, to a lesser extent, Zarek. At least as I watched it, I found myself as angry at Zarek for his opportunism and selfishness as I was with Adama and Roslin frakking while the world burns. And Gaeta is in the middle, angry, and making all the wrong choices. Perhaps it's my unfailing love of all things Cylon, but despite obsessive24's worries, I found the Cylon sections of the vid to be some of my favourites.

Anyway, I want to do justice to the layers of discussion in this vid, but I'll fail if I try, so I will just say, OMG POLITICS! RUN! GO WATCH IT!

Also, if you have any weakness for political rap, the music is amaaaazing.

2) Getting...recced?

So someone decided to link The Enemy Within on TWOP's Gender in Galactica thread.

Which is nice and all, and I'm surprised but glad it's getting a slightly wider audience than I thought and everything. And true, only two people have said anything about it (the poster who linked to it and one respondant), but...both of them seem to have completely missed the fact it's really, really GAY.

I mean...really. Did I not put in enough porn? (Don't answer that, Julie.)

It had actual, literal girlslash goggles.

Oh, internets. I thought you would never fail to see subtext. Or, you know. Text. Which involved nakedness.

3)

This is the What the Frak Happened on Battlestar Galactica official SciFi Recap for Daybreak I.

SPOT THE DELETED BOOMER/HERA AND BOOMER/CHIEF FLASHBACK SCENES.

Weird.

Comments

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

1. I need my laptop back right the frak now. I even tried streaming it, but it's all glitchy and awful. *cries*

2. Oh the internet. Maybe I know too much about the vid, but isn't it obvious what it's about? What with the NEKID LESBIANS and all?

3. It's like the times when they'd put deleted scenes in the previouslies and I'd think I'd missed an entire scene. I really want to see those Boomer scenes.

While I was watching this my aunt started making fun of it saying, "Helo needs to poop, so he goes to the bathroom. After he's done, he pulls out toilet paper to wipe his ass, but the dispenser is out. Frak."

[asta77.livejournal.com]

So Adama was interviewing for a desk job. Much more boring than the spec I've seen. :p And Laura asked Cottle to lessen the pain meds? Was that in the ep or cut?

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I missed this when I watched (probably because I was going WTF? Why all these seemingly pointless flashbacks NOW???), but Sam's hybrid speak is "...find a perfect world for the end of Kara Thrace." Um... what? Do I need to start sobbing now?

[chaila.livejournal.com]

So this amused me, so I rewatched while trying to put aside the fact that I sort of knew the in jokes and the femslash pairings, and don't worry, it was still VERY gay! *pats your shoulder*

You know what word should be retired? "Post-feminist."