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JUDG(E)MENT* DAY. THE FINAL BATTLE. beccatoria VS chaila43. ONE SONG. ONE SHOW. TWO VIDS. NO MERCY. (*winner gets to decide the spelling.)

Title: Raise It Up
Video: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Audio: Rabbit Heart // Florence + The Machine
Summary: Child, soldier, child soldier.
Editor's Notes: With thanks to kiki_miserychic!

Direct download available here. 38 megs approx.

Password: vidses


chaila43's TSCC vid to the same song can be found here.

We finished, guys. I'm not sure if everyone won, or if we carpet bombed ourselves into oblivion, but it was fucking awesome.


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You can find all relevant VIDWAR posts at our tags here and here.

Cross-posted to vidding and scc_vids.

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My VIDWAR: ROBOT APOCALYPSE counterattack continues!

STREAMING IS NOW FIXED.

Title: Howl
Video: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Audio: Howl // Florence + The Machine
Summary: The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound: I hunt for you with bloodied feet across the hallowed ground. (Jesse/Derek, Jesse/Riley).

Direct download available here. 33 megs approx.

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( VIDWAR REMIX MATH. )

You can find all relevant VIDWAR posts at our tags here and here.

Cross-posted to vidding and scc_vids.

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OKAY PEOPLE. SOMETHING OF IMPORT HAPPENED TODAY. Chaila lived up to her promise, and fulfilled my challenge and has finished her turn driving the VIDWAR.

This means two things. Firstly, you should all go watch her latest vid, part two in her quest to prove that Lady Gaga is relatable to all things Sarah Connor, especially if those things involve repressed humans and stylish robots, and "John Henry as the product of an ill-judged romance between Weaver and Ellison as Ellison's revenge for Sarah's rejection. With a fashion interlude!"

Bad Romance by chaila43.

This also means, I AM NOW DRIVING THE VIDWAR. I have been challenged to vid three Sarah Connor Chronicles vids. WATCH THIS SPACE. BECAUSE IT WILL BE FILLED.

I AM FAIRLY CERTAIN WAR SHOULD NOT BE THIS MUCH FUN.

chaila43 has just posted the second in her three responses to my first VIDWAR: ROBOT APOCALYPSE salvo, and it is a pair of unusual ship vids based around Sarah, the first is Sarah/Cameron, the second Sarah/Ellison. The first is not a pairing I ship, the latter is, but both vids are fabulously edited and well worth your time.

Don't Tell Me About Mercy by chaila43.

I think the strength of both of these vids is their ability to draw on the way the show portrays these characters even when they are not romantically involved: these are not AU vids. It grounds them and creates fascinating levels of complexity.

Take the Sarah/Cameron vid, for instance. "Liar/Thief/Ghost" is electric in its opening sequences in the way it draws your attention to how physically aware of Cameron Sarah is at all times. It's an observation that's enough to set a ship on fire, but also provides fascinating insight into Sarah in general. This vid is all darkness and stolen glances and discomfort. The simplicity of the editing is betrayed in the tangle of clips, hands fumbling for John, for guns, but never for each other - except via proxies.

In contrast, "Mercy Street" shows both Sarah and Ellison in a haze of dreamlike imagery, both rhythmic and fluid at once. Their fever dreams of mercy are paralleled with beautiful twinned shots of their journeys throughout the show; again, enough to set a ship on fire, but noteworthy even without the slightest hint of romance.

Pretentious recs aside, go watch them, they're worth it.

(I think this is the part where I admire my opponent's strategy before taking her APART in my counterassault, right? RIGHT? :D)

Songs of the Unforgiven is a cycle of five orphaned Battlestar Galactica vids. They are all short (between two and three minutes). They are all designed to stand alone as well as working as a series (and in couplets) so please, feel free to watch and leave feedback on either or both.

Songs of the Unforgiven marks the launch of VIDWAR: ROBOT APOCALYPSE. Can YOUR robots sing creepy lullabies to their disturbed offspring, Chaila? CAN THEY?! You better HOPE they can cus this is it: YOUR MOVE, KID.

Title: The Unforgiven Ones [Ellen/Cavil]
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: The Unforgiven Ones // Crash Test Dummies
Summary: Ellen sings a lullaby to her son about his siblings, his parents, and what they've done.
Editor's Notes: As always, my thanks to my heroic betas. I also very nearly credited this as Ellen&Cavil rather than the usual 'ship designation of Ellen/Cavil because it seemed less creepy and also because this is really a vid about their relationship in its entirety, it just happens to include creepy motherfrakking. But I figured...whatever, it is creepy and I should just get over myself and own it. Ellen/Cavil it is!

Direct download available here. 31 megs approx.

Password: vidses


Cross-posted to vidding and galactica_vids

Other vids available here.

Songs of the Unforgiven is a cycle of five orphaned Battlestar Galactica vids. They are all short (between two and three minutes). They are all designed to stand alone as well as working as a series (and in couplets) so please, feel free to watch and leave feedback on either or both.

Songs of the Unforgiven marks the launch of VIDWAR: ROBOT APOCALYPSE, and I'M COMING FOR YOU, CHAILA. THIS IS FIRST BLOOD.

Title: Suicide Planet: The Future [D'Anna]
Video:: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: The Future // Leonard Cohen
Summary: Give me absolute control over every living soul, I've seen the future, brother, it is murder.
Editor's Notes: This is the oldest of my orphans; I first decided I wanted to use this song for D'Anna in late 2006, you guys. And as always, my thanks to my heroic betas.

Direct download available here. 30 megs approx.

Password: vidses



Title: Suicide Planet: No Future [Dee]
Video:: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: A Thousand Kisses Deep // Leonard Cohen
Summary: I made it to the forward deck, I blessed our remnant fleet, and then consented to be wrecked, a thousand kisses deep.
Editor's Notes: And this is the youngest of my orphans, at least in terms of finally finding a song; I didn't find this one until October 09, though I'd been planning to make a vid like this for far longer, just with a different, crappier song that I wasn't 100% happy with. I'm glad, now, cyborganize kicked my ass into finding something better. And as always, thanks to my heroic betas.

Direct download available here. 32 megs approx.

Password: vidses


Cross-posted to vidding and galactica_vids

Other vids available here.