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.

Download here (Right or control click and save target as/download file)

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

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

So I'm writing this Cylon meta post of doom which includes links to my personal BSG vid canon, several of which I never quite got around to leaving feedback for, often because they were actually given to me by the friend who got me into BSG rather than me finding them for myself. (that would be projectjulie.

And now I feel a bit bad that I never told you yet that I love this for PULP and REPRODUCTIVITY and, as Julie says, antihumanist techno-spawn; but I see that you linked it with James Tiptree Jr, and I apparently unwittingly plagiarised you in doing that with Sons and Daughters! Or shared a thought process and perspective on BSG, anyway. I'd prefer to think of it as commonality, and I hope you can forgive me. :)

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Commonality definitely, we all have our hands in the datastream. I loved your meta post by the way - it really got me thinking.

[futuransky]

Hi again... I'm involved with the Vid Party at Wiscon (http://wiscon-vidparty.dreamwidth.org) and would like to show Babies as part of the introductory vidshow, "Vids with a Message." The reproductive themes and the Tiptree-ishness are so very appropriate for a feminist science fiction con.

If it's okay with you we'll just use your download copy so you don't have to do anything––just let me know if there's any problem or you would rather we didn't show your vid. Thanks again for making this. :)