I just can't handle Leonard Cohen's voice, I feel bad about saying that because I felt the same way about Jeff Buckley's at first. I bought a cd based on my enjoyment of Evil Angel (after seeing Lum's Darla vid) and Hallelujah, but then at first couldn't listen to the whole thing in one sitting. But now I like his voice. Maybe that will happen with Cohen

I will say my favorite vid of all time is the Firefly Out of Gas one to Hallelujah, but on the other hand it was really the first time I'd really paid attention to the song.

Word word word.

I will say my favorite vid of all time is the Firefly Out of Gas one to Hallelujah, but on the other hand it was really the first time I'd really paid attention to the song.

Word word word.

Nods. (Thanks, Theo!)

Hee!

If there were never any more vidding, there would still be one great masterpiece in it that we could point to to show what it could do.

People are beginning to post links to vids that premiered at Vividcon; check out the Vividcon LJ community.

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BSG stuff from TwoP:

Staff Awards BSG won:

• Best New Show of the 2004-2005 Season
• Best Drama of the 2004-2005 Season (Tied with Deadwood)
• Best Finale of the 2004-2005 Season

Staff Roundup:

It turns out that the best adaptation of Phil Dick's work isn't explicitly based on anything he wrote. After a wowzer of a premiere, Battlestar Galactica took a few episodes to find its footing, but its inconsistencies became its strength as it played with genre, going from adventure to farce to political drama. Sure, killer robots guarantee a good time, but there's so much conflict just among the human cast that sometimes the Cylons are comedy relief. Plus there's a great cast (okay, with one exception) and...well, come on: those space battles are really, really cool. Pow! Zap! Whee! We're sure the CGI gets expensive, but if they ever need to supplement the budget, maybe they can make some fast money doing a spin-off based on the production cards. -- Strega

Readership awards:

• Best Finale of the 2004-2005 Season - third place
• Best Credit Sequence of the 2004-2005 Season - third place

This was way slashier than Duet.

Dude, this made Duet look like an episode of (tries to think of something non-slashy, fails) something really normal. I don't understand HOW they can even expect us to possibly read McShep any other way, it was so obvious! My personal subtitle for this ep is "The episode wherein McShep becomes canon".

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I can't believe I hated this ep when I first saw it on Friday. OK, so I was working on my laptop at the time (doing actual work-related stuff, annoyingly), but mostly I just felt like it was crazy OOC of Rodney to be so insistent that he was right - especially because just last week in Condemned we saw him being all "I can't do it" and this week he's suddenly Mr. Stubborn McEgopants? Yes, that does pretty much describe the Rodney of much of S1, but given the Rodney TPTB have given us so far this season, I didn't buy it. So I was enraged and did not like the ep at all. But then I was thinking about it and reading the flist and ya know, it was pretty damn slashy. Plus, if it's true that the eps were shown out of order and this was supposed to come before Condemned, that would make a lot of my issues go away - character-wise it makes NO sense in the order in which it's been shown. So I watched it again. Jesus! It's like, how ELSE could they possibly expect us to be reading this? Rodney and John are just joined at the hip.

Cutest things in the entire world that occurred during this episode:

1) Rodney's laugh (laugh!) when Sheppard said how excited he was in the puddlejumper. (Yo, that sentence even sounds like porn.)

2) The smiles all around at the weapon info and "You see that? You see how he lights up?" They are SO DOING IT!

3) Zelenka's eyebrow-twitching at Shep. Zelenka was even more of an adorable bundle of cuteness than usual in this ep.

4) Shep's laugh (also !) when Rodney couldn't resist giving him a hint. The smiles he was giving him were all like, "I can't resist him when he's so into something - that's my Rodney".

5) The (many) fond, indulgent, private smiles of Shep's whenever Rodney was bragging, theorizing, or insisting.

6) The little cat-who-got-the-cream look on Rodney after he said, "I intend on always being right again". Killed me ded!

The beautiful angst of McKay - DH was playing it like a frickin' violin:

1) Rodney's voice breaking - both times it happened I wanted John to kiss the hurt away. And you could tell that he wanted to, too. (The LOOK on his face when Rodney said, "I am not sure that I can.." was too much!)

2) "Can I come in?" "No." The look on Rodney's face - gah! REALLY killed me ded.

Hotter than an exploding ancient weapon device in this episode:

1) Practically every single frame containing JF. Literally. I just sat there drooling and occasionally pressing Copy. I NEED new icons of hottius magnus.

2) Ditto for every single frame containing JM. Mmmmmmmmm, God, he is so unbelievably hot. How can Teyla resist Ronan? How? They need to write something in there about how she's taken a vow of celibacy or something because otherwise, I'm not buying it.

The tender, tender man-love of McShep:

If this were any other show, the episode would have ended with Teyla and Ronan overhearing Weir yelling at McKay. But they went the whole nine yards and showed us the McShep conversation - why? Because they are completely doing it.

re: SG1 - I was mostly bored to tears during it, but I will cop to laughing out loud when Crichton Mitchell said, "Earth minutes" with the finger quotes. Also the look Daniel gave him after that was priceless.

re: SG1 - I was mostly bored to tears during it, but I will cop to laughing out loud when Crichton Mitchell said, "Earth minutes" with the finger quotes. Also the look Daniel gave him after that was priceless.

OhDearLordYes. To your whole post (and the altered-sequence thing actually makes it make more sense), but especially to that. Truly it is The Show That Is So Very Meta

I just watched Barkley's Stargate vid "Copocbana", it's hysterical.

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That's a list of all her Vividcon vids and instructions on how to get them.

Barkley's Bab5 vid is excellent as well. t waves at Lurker!Barkley

Hah! Your sekrit is out!