beccatoria: (racetrack's stripping again)
So like, I meant to post about this DAYS ago when I actually read it but forgot, as I usually forget to post about comics (how many of you, for instance, actually know that I in fact buy all these BSG comics, huh?) Like how I always meant to post about the Zarek mini series they did and how bad I felt for them hanging his backstory on the terrible Saggitaron working conditions that meant they got terrible medical care and weren't given the drugs they needed to cure their mine-worker illnesses like...a month before we got that episode that told us they were all good drug hating fundamentalists.

Ahem. Anyway.

I love this comic cus it's crack. It's awesome cool random crack. I also kind of fear it giving me any answers in case, like the show, the comic proves much better at creating weird, exciting, nonsensical, mythological questions than answering them. And really, when it comes to mythology, does one need an answer?

I dunno. Maybe.

The point is, I'm relieved to find something, anything, BSG-related that makes me feel like things are exploding with possibility instead of being shut down.

ExpandSpoilers for the Final Five comic. )

And now I'm making less sense than this cracky comic.

Short version: well-played, Dynamite. Keep it up for two more issues. Don't let this be the No Exit to your Daybreak.
beccatoria: (caprica wants it precious!)
Yes, I am still refusing to acknowledge the existence of the finale. And yet, somehow I seem to have managed to produce a Caprica-centric post-finale story. It had no beta, so all mistakes or poor choices are completely mine. The point of this story is catharsis; somehow turning the stuff I hated into something I could love, so probably the story deserves better than an unbeta'd dump onto my LJ. But equally, I'm done with it now, and combing through it might have done me more harm than good. So.

Title: The name of this story is your name.
Word Count: Approx. 6,000
Spoilers: Daybreak II and the entirety of human history.
Disclaimer: Not mine! Making no money!
Summary: What if Caprica didn't actually die. Ever.

ExpandThe name of this story is your name. )
beccatoria: (tory bsg love)
BSG Manga: Echoes of New Caprica.

SOOO! I actually found this in my local Forbidden Planet a few weeks ago, which was way before the official release of the thing. But it seems it's turning up in other places too now so I'll post my OMG BUY IT post now rather than later.

It's three short stories set during/in the aftermath of New Caprica. One about Laura and her school, one about Tom Zarek (which I confess I haven't read and is written by Richard Hatch) and one about Kara and Kacey after they get back to Galactica (which was a nice little story but I'm not sure I can understand it in the context of the canon we have.)

The best one, obviously, is the one that's all about Laura. It is best for many reasons. Best because it has Laura being an awesome revolutionary teacher. Best because it involves collaboration and fear and what happens when you throw children into the mix as pawns. Best because it has Tory running around with a gun shooting the shit out of things. Best because it's all about Laura, the real Laura.

And selfishly, it will always be best for me, because the author of that story is a friend of a friend and OMG YOU GUYS. LOOK WHAT SHE DID FOR ME.

ExpandI AM A RENNAISANCE CAPRICAN FOLK SINGER, YOU GUYS! )

AND THEN LOOK! LOOK WHAT SHE DID FOR ALL SEVEN THREE OF US REMAINING LAURA/MAYA SHIPPERS!

Expandtheirloveissocohabitational! )

But in all seriousness guys, my own selfish excitement aside, it really is a great little story and I encourage all of you to get it!
beccatoria: (agent ellison come with me)
Okay so. When I started hating The X-Files, it was right around the time I fell for Farscape. When Farscape got axed BSG very kindly showed up to steal my heart. Now that BSG is over (and my heart is in tatters; nope, still not over the surreal anti-intellectual reactionary technophobic crap: after all the stuff it pulled and the wars fought in its name they should have kept the tech and thrown GOD into the sun) I find myself adrift.

My cunning plan was to jump on the Terminator train and develop wallow in an enormous crush on Agent Ellison and an intellectual crush on Weaver/Cameron/John Henry. However, it's looking increasingly and depressingly likely that it won't get renewed. *commences wailing*

And for real, I watch like, no television. Occasionally I'll catch an episode of House or Bones or something but other than that, my TV schedule consists pretty much exclusively of BSG, Terminator and, when it's on, Dexter. So I need advice on what to start watching next.

I know you can't force fannish love, but I can at least start, um, "seeing other shows," and finding out if there's a spark, right?

So, my personal ad! Sorta.

ExpandI am SOOOOO picky. Damn. )

I guess what I want is intelligent science fiction, with a side-order of character-arc and extra epic.

Do any of you know where I might be able to find such a thing these days?

* * *

Redacted.
beccatoria: (racetrack's stripping again)
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.

ExpandMotivational Posters! )

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.
beccatoria: (granddaughter of alcoholics)
In my original post about the finale, I said I didn't know if I liked it or not. Well now I know. I don't like it. I was...unwilling, at the time, to make such sweeping statements when there were a lot of pretty images I liked, and an end idea I felt ought to mollify me more than it did.

It's been obvious for most of this week to anyone reading this journal that I didn't like it and am taking, um, extreme measures, to not let the distaste the finale left me with permanently affect my enjoyment of a show that was, more often than not, entirely excellent.

But I do feel, now, that I can talk a little more coherently about my issues with the thing.

Or rather, I can quote someone else's far more eloquent summation of the underlying issues with this sucker, and then comment on that.

ExpandThis is Jacob from TWoP. Believe me; I'm as shocked to find myself agreeing with him again as you are. I really thought we'd gotten divorced too. )

ExpandObviously I don't agree with everything, but the places I disagree pretty much sum up every OTHER reason I am unhappy. )

ExpandJacob again on the Opera House of Pretty Stupidity. )

Redacted.
beccatoria: (cavil's a princess)
Firstly I'm sorry for being very behind on replying to comments. My life is kind of crazy just now. Which is probably part of why I'm...feeling really weird about BSG.

The more I think about the finale, the more I'm disappointed in it, which...I really didn't think I would be. Because I'd lowered my expectations somewhat. But...I guess shit happens.

But I don't want to let it negatively affect my opinion of the entire show any more than I have to. So I am taking radical action and attempting to do something I hate doing: instituting personal canon. I'm just flat out refusing to acknowledge parts of it happened.

(Except I totally WILL acknowledge them at times because I'm like that and will callously appropriate visuals for vids. I mean I actually, if I have the heart to do it, even have a 4.5-centric vid in the works.)

But basically this is now my canon:

Mini - 4x11 Sometimes a Great Notion + No Exit.

Plus selected background scenes of awesome Cylon integration like the Cylons on the memorial wall. Or sitting in the Pilot briefing room with Starbuck in the gorgeous teaser to Someone to Watch Over Me.

Plus the moment Kara starts playing All Along the Watchtower and then plays her father's music to Sam.

Though really, if pressed, I'd just cut that down to Mini - 4x11 + 4x15 as the bonus backstory episode. I just want to save the two semi-decent things that came after (cylons on the memorial wall & Kara and her piano-playing.)

This means that:

1) Nicky is still a cybrid. ETA And Cally's suicidal/infanticidal behaviour makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE. /ETA.
2) Liam is still alive.
3) Ellen Tigh is still awesome and I can still love Saul.
4) Tory is still kick ass and leading and stuff on the basestar.
5) Massive implication that Daniel is Kara's father.
6) Boomer is more interesting this way. (I actually didn't mind her double-double cross but her final triple-cross was highly meh.)

I'm also vaguely considering canonising the very last two minutes of the finale because I actually liked that bit and without the sucky prior context of anti-technological and ONLY ONE HYBRID crap it's a fun fourth-wall break.

So it's like, we finish at 4x11 and then we have these floating pieces - No Exit, Kara playing the piano, Cylons on the memorial wall, a completely contextless suggestion that we're all hybrids. Like a trailer for the awesome this season could have been without the suck factor?

And I'm kind of totally okay with the lack of concrete answers since BSG disappointed me so hard with them and I'm now thinking, it's a far better show when it's just asking questions and inventing insane shit with no reason behind it.

I don't find this kind of thing easy, but I'm serious people. I WILL TAKE BACK BSG USING EVERY WEAPON AT MY DISPOSAL DOWN TO MY OWN EYE TEETH. (See? SEE ME REAPPROPRIATE DIALOGUE?)

WHO'S WITH ME?!
beccatoria: (granddaughter of alcoholics)
ExpandGeneral thoughts. )

Two things really, really bothered me.

ExpandTory. )

ExpandWTFCOLONIALISM? )

ExpandFinal thoughts on other stuff. )

And now it's over and I have no idea what to do with myself.

Also I have no idea whether or not I liked it. I didn't hate it. I did, at times, wonder if it was going to irrevocably change my view of the whole show. I...don't think that's happened, though.

I still think that RECLAIM WITH VIDS is the way to go. But I'm not sure how long it'll be 'til I have another. I've ground to a halt on my D'Anna vid, though if I don't start on it again soon, I'll make an actual effort to make myself.

HMM.
beccatoria: (fizzgig tantrum!)
So, like, I'm waiting FOREVER for this thing to um, magically show up so I can watch it and thus have instead been reduced to reading the PatriotResource recaps which are usually kind of...vague and sometimes even miss stuff out especially nuances.

Still, I thought I'd post my initial responses to the two issues about 4.5 that have been bugging me and that I've hoped the finale would fix. And, you know, if you want to provide me with additional details I'd be mega grateful.

Basically this is one long meta-type meditation on the themes of technology in BSG and I'm pretty much not going to try and comment on specific stuff until I've seen it.

ExpandHERE BE SPOILERS FOR THE FINALE! )
beccatoria: (cavil's a princess)
1) A rec:

[livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.
beccatoria: (Samlon!)
To be perfectly honest, guys, I was kinda bored. Well, that's harsh. I mean, at any other point in the series, I'd've been cool with it. But like, I'm too stressed by what will happen next week and whether I'll get answers to stuff to really enjoy this slow ride. If the finale delivers I'll probably enjoy it more in retrospect.

ExpandFlashbacks and the people we lost. )

ExpandWhat are they trying to do with Gaius, and can he please have a legitimate political issue to do it with? )

And that's mostly it. A few other random points:

ExpandRandom other points. )
beccatoria: (agent ellison come with me)
People. This is what happens when I'm bored, stressed, unemployed and unable to vid because I'm still re-ripping all my source. No, not macros this time, 1300 words of un-beta'd crossover fic because I just rewatched [livejournal.com profile] charmax's vid and it's still awesome. Also I meant for there to be more Ellison. But it didn't happen. BOO.

Title: One-Winged Birds
Rating: PG?
Fandom: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica
Disclaimer: Not mine, I'm just really damn bored.
Summary: Caprica and Starbuck crashland on Earth. Team Connor finds them. Also, birds are very fragile, and we're tool-builders, after all.

ExpandOne-Winged Birds. )
beccatoria: (caprica wants it precious!)
I mean, not that I need a reason to love her cus she's awesome and all, but it's interesting to see how she fits in with other things I love. Cus turns out (not entirely unexpectedly) I got kinks for Loving the Shit out of the Crappy Universe and also the Terror of Freedom.

So there's this awesome book called Traitor. One of the great cruelties of the crappy universe that I wish everyone would love the shit out of is that this is a Star Wars novel set in the middle of a ridiculously long series of 19 other novels of highly variable quality set like twenty-five years after Return of the Jedi. So like, clearly nearly none of y'all will have read it.

That's okay. You don't need to. The protagonist isn't actually that much like Caprica. His story isn't the same as hers. He spends most of the novel getting to a place where loving the shitty universe and being far too free are issues for him, while Caprica's been struggling with those things since the first day we, and an unfortunate infant, met her.

ExpandThe only important quotes are these: )

ExpandWhy those quotes are important to Caprica. )

And that, guys, is Caprica all over. Not consciously. She's not an overthinker like Jacen Solo. But they took away her certainty, and that made her free. And she never stopped choosing, never started apologising for who she was even if she felt guilty for what she did, and most of all, no matter how it kept hurting her, she never stopped loving the shit out of this crummy, messed up universe.

All I want is for the universe to love her back.
beccatoria: (roslin and headsix are SHOCKED)
Cus my life is like, "boredboredboredSTRESSboredboredSTRESSboredboredbored," right now and since I made the punk decision to rerip half my vidding source in an attempt to get slightly better quality out of it, I am apparently entertaining/distracting myself by spamming the internet with crap like this. ;)

I was totally gonna be all mean and take the piss out of Laura "But can she type?!" Roslin and Liam "My Daddy didn't love me enough!" Tigh, but I realised doing so would require me to actually watch those scenes again and I'm not sure my fragile constitution could take it.

So instead we are sticking to shit that's hilarious because it's true. Especially the first one. Really. If I had to pick a single image to represent the entire series at this point, that'd probably be it. o_O

ExpandBattlestar Galactica: Because you couldn't make this stuff up (spoilers for all aired episodes). )

And...I'm still bored. Though you know, bored > stressed so I shouldn't complain. *glares evilly at stress*
beccatoria: (caprica wants it precious!)
So like...for the first time I was kind of pissed off that nothing happened. Which is a ridiculous complaint considering lots of stuff happened. But really, NOTHING HAPPENED!

So I'm still stuck with every single one of my neurotic worries about the show's endgame that I had in A Disquiet Follows My Soul, and there wasn't anything like awesome nihilism or minor character uprisings or political plots or great characteristion or crazy revelations to distract me like there usually are.

Dammit, I'm tired!

So basically I thought this was a pretty decent episode all told. You know, when ignoring my OMG TELL ME NOW issues.

ExpandAdama who is a Jackass and Helo who Broke my Heart. )

ExpandBoomer who is Highly Fickle, Chief who is Suspiciously Missing and Hera 3.0 who I like Better than Last Week. )

ExpandLaura who is Clearly being Gentle with the Senile Admiral; other interpretations make me cry. )

ExpandAnders who is both Hybridtacular and Hybritragical. )

ExpandGalactica who is being Encylonated and the Atmosphere which is Hopeless and Accepting, like Helo. )

ExpandBaltar who is an Attention Whore, Bless Him, and Starbuck who has Problems with Doors. )

Which means I've said everything I want to except about, you got it, Caprica.

ExpandAn Open Letter to the Writers: GIVE HER SOME DAMN SCREENTIME, PEOPLE. )

ExpandCaprica who Broke my Heart as Bad as Helo, and Gaius who Nearly Did the Same. )

In conclusion: my hopes for the finale are still that everyone dies except Caprica. And maybe Sam.
beccatoria: (racetrack's stripping again)
Honestly, guys, I'll write up a proper post with thinky thoughts and everything like...later.

In the mean time, macroing the shit out of Adama keeps me sane. Well okay, it doesn't. But it helps me pretend.

ExpandPaintsex, weed and the CRUEL CRUEL INDIFFERENCE OF DESTINY. )

...I'm sorry, flist. I'm so sorry.

IN OTHER NEWS.

Did you know that LJ has a tag limit? You're not allowed more than 1200 tags? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO EXIST WITH FEWER THAN 1200 TAGS?

(Why yes, I did hit the limit and have to delete a whole bunch that...I didn't know what they were anyway...)
beccatoria: (Default)
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.
beccatoria: (we are the cylon vidding machine!)
I hope everyone in the entire world has already seen this, but on the offchance any of you have not, you need to watch Unnatural Selection by [livejournal.com profile] charmax.

I wish I had the words to describe how mindblowing it is.

It's Battlestar Galactica and The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but while I'm usually kind of uncomfortable with multi-fandom videos (I often feel like the connection between the fandoms is "I wanted them both in this vid!" rather than something organic) there is just...nothing like that here. The two shows fit together flawlessly in one epic clusterfrak of robot apocalypses, evolution, death and God.

The vid's arguments on evolution, that it is not the strongest but the most adaptable who will survive and that the machines are changing far more quickly than us, violently expressed and beautifully edited, are just stunning.

This monkey's gone to heaven, but at least she was replaced by Six, the devil.
beccatoria: (Default)
[livejournal.com profile] zombiep0rn is now open! If you didn't know, it's a gift community for [livejournal.com profile] kiki_miserychic because if anyone deserves presents right now, it's her.

With thanks to [livejournal.com profile] cyborganize for the announcement layout, I present a collaborative contribution.


ATTENTION! We have observed a growing tendency, particularly pronounced on the part of one [livejournal.com profile] kiki_miserychic, to succumb to DEVIANT BEHAVIOR. Such DEPRAVITY can only lead to terrifying consequences: DEATH! PORNOGRAPHY! UNDEATH! PESTILENCE! APOCALYPSE! We urge you to heed the following cautionary tale...


Password: vidses


[livejournal.com profile] beccatoria .............................. video editor
[livejournal.com profile] grrl_unscripted ..................... audio editor
[livejournal.com profile] cyborganize ..................... graphic designer
[livejournal.com profile] heyiya ..................... production coordinator
everyone ........................... script/storyboards


Title: The Enemy Within
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003), plus Gia & Mulholland Drive
Audio: original music from Them! (1954) composed by Bronislau Kaper
Warning: NUDITY
Summary: These MONSTROUS WOMEN pay a price for CHEATING DEATH.
Notes: The Cylon Vidding Machine's gift for [livejournal.com profile] kiki_miserychic in [livejournal.com profile] zombiep0rn & [livejournal.com profile] thearchive2's "memo" challenge. You cannot imagine how difficult it was to keep this secret from Whitney all month.

Download 29mb AVI (RightClickSaveAs) | Cross-posted to [livejournal.com profile] thearchive2, [livejournal.com profile] bsg_femslash & [livejournal.com profile] galactica_vids

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