vid - so say we all iii (Rise) - Battlestar Galactica

[kiki_miserychic]

vid title: so say we all iii (Rise) music: "Rise" from The Flobots source: Battlestar Galactica duration: 3:20 notes: Made for challenge 02 - scripture at thearchive2. Third in my so say we all series, the first and second being Handlebars and It's All Part of a Bigger Plan.

summary: If you believe in redemption. Season 4.5 of BSG.

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lyrics
So much pain we
Don't know how to be but angry
Feel infected like we got gangrene
Please don't let anybody try to change me
Me
Just me
In the middle of a sea full of faces
Full of faces
Some laugh, some salivate
What's in your alleyway
Recycling bins or bullet cases
It's not equal
It's not fair
We're different people
But we're not scared
We ain't never scared
To pave a new path
Make a new street
Build a new bridge
Say can you see by the dawns early light
Free slaves running
Songs words weren't right
Now a new day's coming
The few stay stunning, while the many are handsome
Your soul is alive, but they want it for ransom
The base drumming is the anthem
We step to the heartbeats of our granddaughters and grandsons
And

Lost hope and found need
Grounded by our surroundings
Did the walls scream universities
Or you and I verse the tees
React automatic and we burst when squeezed
And make 9-11 each emergency
Urgency amber to red like the turning leaves
Oh please let the hurting cease
Don't let apathy police the populace
We will march across
Those stereotypes that were marked for us
The answers obvious
We switch the consonants and
Change the sword to words and lift continents

Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise

Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise, together we
Rise

If you believe in redemption
I'm calling to you from another dimension (from another dimension)
(Rise)

If you believe in redemption
I'm calling to you from another dimension (from another dimension)
(Rise)

If you believe in redemption
I'm calling to you from another dimension (from another dimension)
(Rise)

If you believe in redemption
I'm calling to you from another dimension (from another dimension)
(Rise)

Comments

[chaila.livejournal.com]

I...don’t know what to say about this! The editing is smashing, quite literally. I love the discord of the first three-quarters of it, particularly the way that opening with Hera making the ships collide set up that idea (what a great opening <3), and the way that theme is reflected in the form of the editing, the quick jumps and disorienting motion. And I thought the lyrics (of which there were many awesome interpretations) were actually really discordant as well, both in showing the various discontented groups and the general chaos, but also in how they're really not that hopeful? They're grim, and so much of it is about death and desperation.

But that handshake around 2:05 feels like a turning point, and from there I am of two minds and, first I'll go off on what may be a totally ridiculous interpretation. But I found it interesting that you went back to some of the same scenes on the “rise” lyrics, but they have a different, almost Establishment, context. And I sort of feel like the revolution didn’t win, and nobody with any power had to change in any way that mattered and all those deaths didn't do anything at all. But on the other hand, I realize that that’s probably not your intended interpretation and do see the "saving Hera together yay!" that's probably more logical than my interpretation, and I do like the way that fits so neatly with the opening on Hera smashing the ships together.

I...just have such a visceral reaction to pretty green Earth shots that I can’t accept them on their own terms and want very much to interpret almost everything after the handshake as ironic—there was no revolution, the status quo won in the end, there’s no redemption, suckers, you learned nothing—just because of my subjective feelings about the end. But also, none of that really fits with the last section about Earth 2.0, so I have to give up and just say that I can completely see that you’re making this a song about growing pains, and the way this ends is the way I wish I’d felt about the show at the end! So...have my random thoughts?

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly, this vid was the longest I've ever taken to edit. I started it in May or so of 2009, but lost the notion to finish it because I had so many issues with the show. Then I started vidding for VVC and the project was left to rot halfway done. I'd really wanted to finish it because it felt like something that would help me come to terms with season 4.5 of BSG, so I started it back up toward the end of December. A lot of my own feelings clogged up the vid to the point where I didn't know if the vid was supposed to be hopeful or grim. I thought the series was going in a different place when I conceived of the vid, but the show gave me a twisted version of what I'd wanted. I have the original meanings that I'd wanted to bring out, but then there's the little me in the background chanting, "but it all turned to shit" or "but that's not really what happened" because I'm evil.

I liked the bookend idea of Hera crashing the two display ships and them actually crashing together in the end. The clip at the end doesn't show as well as I envisioned, but I think the other clips sell the point.

I like making a clusterfuck of lyrical interpretations. It's fun.

I enjoyed your random thoughts and thank you. <#