New BSG vid

[hazelk]

Title: Babies

Artist: Pulp

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica

Spoilers: Miniseries through to S3.01 (Occupation)

Characters/Pairings: Yes

Format:XviD

Size: 32.7 MB

Summary: Love is the plan, the plan is… Shameless plagiary of James Tiptree Jnr, sexual conflict, evolutionary theory and gratuitous space porn.

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Feedback is also the plan


Oh I want to take you home
I want to give you children
You might be my girlfriend
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

When I saw you next day
I really couldn't tell
Cos you might go and tell your mother
And so you went with Neve
Oh yeah, and Neve was coming on
And I thought I heard you laughing
When his Mum and Dad were gone
I listened outside, I heard you - all right

Oh I want to take you home
I want to give you children
You might be my girlfriend
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh yeah

Well I guess it couldn't last too long
I came home one day and all her things were gone
I fell asleep inside
I never heard her come
And then she opened up the wardrobe
And I had to get it on
Oh yeah - listen
Oh we were on the bed when you came home
I heard you stop outside the door
I know you won't believe it's true:
I only went with her cos she looks like you - My God!

Oh I want to take you home
I want to give you children
You might be my girlfriend

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh-oh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah





This is a slight departure for me so critcal comment would be really welcome. Technically it's very straightforward but it's not a single character piece in the way my other stuff has tended to be. In some ways it's the most structured vid I’ve ever made, in others the most incoherent. I mean it starts all Carry on up the Galaxy and ends up somewhere closer to Altman’s Three Women, which wasn’t in the plan.

The original idea for it came from hearing the song for the first time in ages and getting hung up on the “ I want to give you children” line in the chorus relating to the whole BSG cylon/human hybrid plot. I laid the clips for the three choruses first, one line per couple, and filled in the verses before getting the idea of starting all male and ending all female. The final section was the part that changed around the most, having not used Starbuck for either verse she kind of took over the ending. My Kara has issues but I like her for that.

Comments

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love this vid SO MUCH. For starters I love the song (Pulp fan from way back) and the fact that you vidded the Cylons and their children-obsession to it is just genius. The vid managed to both amuse and move me--it moved me in the creeped-out way that the Cylons and their reproductive agenda do on the show. But I also enjoyed giggling at the frakked-up-ness of Gaius and Six and Helo and Eight and Kara and Leoben, etc, etc.

I thought it worked well as an ensemble piece--it painted the overall picture of the Cylon obsession. And I loved your use of the explosions/space dockings and other phallic or fertile imagery to support the mood/theme of the piece. Much praise!

I hope you don't mind me reccing it? I think the fact I watched it four times in a row straightaway means it warrants much reccing... ;-)

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Wow, what fantastic feedback ::fans self:: You really got everything I was trying to do. And Pulp fan. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And rec, please do (is flattered).

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! It's been a real highlight of my week. Oh, and I forgot to say I really liked the darker twist at the end with the images of Kara in the pregnancy-farms on Caprica. I love that you included that imagery!