In space, no one can hear you preen

[gwyn]

I just posted a new Battlestar Galactica vid, this one for a character I don't even like because of all the terrible suffering he's responsible for: Gaius Baltar. It's kind of freeing in a way to vid someone you despise, because to tell a story, you have to learn to love the characters you're telling about; you see different things in them than just fannish objects of affection. And it forced me to see all these things about Baltar I'd never really seen before.

Digging in the Dirt
Artist: Peter Gabriel
File: Divx avi, 37MB (I recommend VLC media player, which you can find a link for at the site)
Dr. Gaius Baltar, scientist, narcissist, wackjob: It really is all about him.

Thanks for feochadn for the halftime beta; I hope the rest of it lives up to your standards.

Comments

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Oh Baltar. The crazier he gets, the sexier he looks. Loved the vid, captured nicely the slow fracturing of his mind and the kind of slow, inevitable descend into darkness. One of my favourite things about the character is how he never really believes he's past the point of no return, how he still thinks he can redeem himself. And this is something I get very clearly from this vid. Stunning work.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! That is a great point about him not believing he's too far gone for redemption -- I admit that before the vid, I might not have seen that, but I totally do now. Spending that much time with him, I started to really see so many different things in his character.