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

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

HELL YES CYLONS, RISE!!!

OK, it is ridic that it took me so long to watch this. I needed to make the huge space that it deserves in my life. and premiere it with heyiya, which happened yesterday. I have promised to wait for metatxt to watch it a second time! so there may be more *specific* flailing to come. but so far it just completely took our breath away. plus we were all like, CVM is getting so self-reflexive nobody else will be able to understand our vids. but I loved the intertextuality of it like burning, the references to our collective fanon (which is obviously RIGHT).

I know it took you forever to find the headspace to make what could seem like an "upbeat" vid after FAILNALE. but I must say I think in the end this strikes the perfect tone. it's hopeful, but it's an in-your-face hope for OUR world, the hybrid robot world, the world flying off into the sun. the ending says FU-RDM while still acknowledging what happened, that it was the future among the many possible futures. and above all I adore that Laura gets to be a Cylon in it!

it strikes me as the counterpoint to Moon vs. Sun and Order in the Sound that tells the CYLON story. and that doesn't turn away from the arc of the finale while still asserting our interpretation. it makes me feel like BSG can go on...

put it on the YouTube!!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I'm sure most of the context is unintelligible for people outside of the Cylon Internet, but I think it plays ok without it.

I can't even tell if it's upbeat anymore. I can see little ways I undercut what I was trying to show. I wanted it to be genuine, but I kept sneaking in little jokes that point out the bullshit.

We're all Cylon.

I'll put it on the 'tube later this week. :)