BSG: Daybreak Motivational Posters

[beccatoria]

Okay so this week I've been totally without work which is irritating since I went through such angst to clarify my damn hours (I'm supposed to have three days a week), but they're shifting me between projects and the new one was supposed to be kicking off Wednesday except apparently not so I'm stuck with no work 'til Monday. Which isn't exactly horrific except I'm broke and could have done with the cash and am now in a weird interim am-I-on-the-dole-or-aren't-I? situation. But whatever...y'all aren't exactly interested in that.

What y'all are probably interested in is the fact that, driven by boredom, and the inability of my mind to quite comprehend the hilarious fail of the post-Earthfall Daybreak stuff, I have responded in the only sane way I can think of.














Yay!

Honestly I feel a little mean about the Leetopia one and the Agriculture one because everyone seems to agree that Farmer!Gaius was the most moving thing in the episode, and I'm one of three people on the internet who really didn't see Lee's ending as a total tragedy. I mean, the part where he got far more idealistic than smart and threw everything INTO THE SUN was a tragedy, sure. But look at him in that field! He's so happy! And kind of...free. Looking forward. Sure it would have been nice if that had happened with a metaphorical moving away from Kara and his Dad rather than them turning into invisible pigeons and necrophiliac hermits, but whatever, I WANTED TO HUGGLE HIM.

Ahem.

Redacted.

Comments

[rjsteamboat76.livejournal.com]

*snort* once again you have slayed (slain?) me with the hilarious posters!!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yay! ;)

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are so wrong!!! And also hilarious!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Hee! Glad you found them funny! :)

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's some way you can mask things to make it look like, say, Kara and Sam or Helo and Athena or Dee and Gaeta walk by while head!Six and head!Baltar are reading over RDM's shoulder... Or maybe have Tyrol behind him, rolling his eyes. :P

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I don't really think I could manage anything like that; masking isn't my forte and I'm not even sure how to do it on my editing program.

It's an entertaining idea, but actually, I'm not even including the RDM cameo. I'm literally talking about the last shot of robots to Watchtower culminating in Head!Six and Head!Baltar from behind, so it's not even clear it's them, walking down the street. It's supposed to be a little...obviously our world, but more oblique.

It's hard to explain the reasoning behind this without the context of what I've done, since I'm like, totally cutting pretty much all of Daybreak and I'm specifically NOT going down the "They all land on prehistoric Earth!" root (at least not explicitly; what they do do is subject to its own weird little inexplicable montage that will hopefully not just confuse the frak out of everyone.)

But anyway, I have a...possible solution to my problem in a very weird movie I'm looking into that may offer me the footage I need. We'll see...

[indigo419.livejournal.com]

LOL! You've outdone yourself - I was laughing so hard I almost choked on my lunch. Oh, my.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yay! And sorry for the choking! ;)

[whatever-lj.livejournal.com]

Dialysis machines -- lol, lol, lol -- probably would have -- lol, lol... I can't type -- too funny, too funny -- my stomach hurts....

THESE ARE SUCH FUN! THANKS!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed them!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I liked Gaius' ending and Lee's on a character level. I liked the Dancing robots separately from BSG. I adore dancing robots in general. That's my fake prodcution company name, The Dancing Robot Cliche.

FAT BABY NICKY IZ DED.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

OMG that is an AWESOME name for a fake production company. I totally need a fake production company name.

Unfortunately my current impulse is to name is FAT BABY NICKY Productions. I should probably work on that. Also: ICON LOVE.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, I'm at work, for Pete's sake. I am not allowed to die of laughter or people will figure out that I'm not really working.

I am a little disappointed that there isn't an Agathons-related one. Much as I adore the characters, I think the Athena killing Boomer than and the Hera as Mitochondrial Eve thing are both RIPE for skewering.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

OMG NO! Actual work at work?! *sympathises*

I dunno, I did try to think of a way to macro that but I guess I didn't because, honestly, Hera as mitochondrial Eve I kind of liked even if it was a scifi cliche and a stupid reason to ditch all the tech. I suppose really, though, having Helo and Athena discussing setting her up with a Nice Local Boy could have been entertaining... :p

[beerbad.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I LOL'ed at Leetopia!
Secondly, re: scary robotz, you should TOTALLY pull footage from TSCC! Like the robot with a face that Cameron sees, and the chess playing ones, and John Henry! XOVER FTW.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

LEETOPIA! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO LIVE THERE!

I don't know, I kind of want to include, like, real chess playing robots and stuff but I'm worried flat out stealing TSCC footage will pull people out of the moment?

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

*DIES*

I'm laughing, but why do I feel like crying? ;)

Oh NICKY. :( Saaam!

I do like to imagine Lee got his happy-ish ending eventually. If I forget that he killed Nicky and Sam!! I do think that's what they were going for; it just came off really weird for him to be happy at that moment. Like so much else in the finale. *sigh* I really think this is our fandom's Breaking Dawn. :P

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

I really think this is our fandom's Breaking Dawn. :P

*snickers, but with sadness * ;)

Too true.

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

*dies* These are hilariously snarky. Good stuff.

Disability Discrimination

O_o

OMG! They failed at something else!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it.

AND OMG I KNOW. I totally didn't get it for a while, same as it took me a while to realise Nicky was gonna DIE, but after a day or two I was like...hang on a minute, they totally just shot the disabled guy into the sun because obviously requiring technology to survive is NO LIFE AT ALL. *facepalm*

It's like freaking discrimination bingo! I'm trying to see if I can find some classism in there to round out the sexism, racism, colonialism and disability discrimination... o_O

[ancarett]

The second one? You've summed up one of my disbelieving "HOLY FRAK, YOU'VE DOOMED THEM ALL!" responses to the finale. The entire set is wonderful, though!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Glad to entertain! And yeah, seriously. If they were going to INSIST on setting it 150,000 years ago they could at least have explicated that they're going to become a crazy tribe of hunter gatherers (which, to be fair, would probably give them a marginally better life than farmers anyway.)

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

I mean, the part where he got far more idealistic than smart and threw everything INTO THE SUN was a tragedy, sure. But look at him in that field! He's so happy! And kind of...free. Looking forward. Sure it would have been nice if that had happened with a metaphorical moving away from Kara and his Dad rather than them turning into invisible pigeons and necrophiliac hermits, but whatever, I WANTED TO HUGGLE HIM.
THIS, lady. This.

And your macros are awesome as always.

Final scene... honestly it just bugs me that robots/technology was the sole focus of danger and oh noes. It might've been more worthwhile to get some footage in there of, you know, WAR and stuff. Not that it would make it any less cutesy and didactic, but at least it'd be didactic about the right thing.

I fully support you still ending it with the headpeople in New York, by the way.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! :)

I think that what bugs me is the fact that the entire discussion on technology was OH NOES which is why I didn't hate the dancing robots entirely because they're really not that threatening and to me are an expression of our curiosity and innovation, but I concede this was entirely likely not the point of the montage.

What I actually want to do is like...a montage of us and technology. Good and bad. Cus that's what I think I hated most about the finale - the luddite "technology is not the answer," message, echoed even by Cylon about themselves. The simplistic nonsense of it. And the fact that so many people in the wilds of the internet buy this nonsense. Like some common sense stupid aphorism like, "computer games cause gun crime." And then it gets raised up and lauded as deep and daring when actually, no. It's become the cliche that (back when it had Starbuck torturing Leoben and Gina on Pegasus and Tigh ordering suicide bombings) it used to eschew.

And...sorry, now I'm ranting again.

But anyway, yes, I do still end it on the Head People. Kinda. Although I'm making efforts to lessen the smug factor (THANKS, RDM!CAMEO!) and make it a little more oblique. They're there though, and it's NYC.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

Here via friendsfriends...these are gorgeous! Thanks for posting.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! :D

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

These posters are awesome.

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH! I want to walk around the world wearing a big sandwich board with AFRICA and DIALYSIS MACHINES.

and also I'M BACK TODAY. at least a little. GEEZ. so I will be reading your revision emails and you should flag me down if want to talk BSR.

you might be able to find some footage of scary military robots in the Prelinger archive? not so much contemporary stuff probably but there are some futurist gems. I'm curious what the movie is...

[rebelliousrose.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, these are brilliant. Can you do more?

[obsessive-a101.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this would be what you're looking for but...

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/mpeg_vcd/

[obsessive-a101.livejournal.com]

Also of note, btw, the posters? Are hilarious. XD

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

These are so amazingly awesome!

I have a favor to ask!

I am doing a panel on disability in BSG at WisCon. I wonder, could I borrow your macros on dialysis and disability discrimination--either the macros themselves, or the ideas--with credit, for the panel? I'm not sure if they would go over well or not but oh they would be so funny to have up my sleeve.

If you'd rather not, it's OK to say no, or just ignore this comment. :)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely, go for it! I'm glad you enjoyed them! :)

That panel sounds really insteresting. Can I ask what topics you intend to discuss? I imagine there'll be quite a lot about Gaeta and Anders? Nicky and Tigh are obviously also candidates although Nicky's renal failure is totally forgotten an episode later and after the start of season three, Tigh's disability is likewise never really portrayed in any meaningful fashion or mentioned again. He just wears an eyepatch now.

I'm trying to think of other disabled characters, but I'm drawing a blank. *thinks*