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

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

This vid makes me heartachy because you show me the finale I wish we'd gotten, and this vid makes me heartachy because of all the quiet nods to that in the lyrics of the verses. Sam's soul for ransom will always stick with me, as will that incredibly brief but creepy shot of Chief with the wrench, Adama getting executed on the "new day coming", the way we move from Baltar's peaceful goodbye to his crazy cult's empty quarters, backwards in time to his incitement to nihilistic, disillusioned anger and violence, to name a few.

Seeing the happy, green shots of Earth is a complicated emotional experience after watching the rest of the vid; but it leaves me thoughtfully sorrowful. I know that you wanted to make a 4.5 vid and you do succeed on that level, and for those who enjoyed that stretch of the show, I think this probably works fantastically, but I hope it's not out of place to say that I enjoy it on a different level; as a poignant vid that reminds me, surprisingly delicately and eloquently, of the meta-tragedy of the show.

I would talk to you about the moments of editing I found most awesome, but that would end up being, like, the entire freaking vid. Seriously, you + spinny cameras + rap with a hard beat = I would love it forever for the editing alone. <3

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Everything BSG-related comes with a tingle of hurt these days, which sounds dramatic, but it's kinda true. You were there for all my emo and flailing.

Tyrol killed that random 8 and scrambled her brains for Boomer. I feel so sad for her and I have a love/loathe relationship with the 8s. I strongly disliked Athena, but I came to adore Boomer (until she got redeemed and shit. I know that Hera is adorbz, but geez).

I wonder how the series would have ended if Gaeta had killed Adama. If there had to be a balance, he should have died "in place" of Anders.

I feel the same way about the earth bits. I almost want to pretend it was a random blue and green planet and not Earth. I said above that 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.

My relationship with BSG is too complicated to be summed up or concluded in a less than 3 and a half minute vid.

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