Vid: Freedom (Saul Tigh)

[thelibraniniquity]

Title: Freedom
Artist: David Gray

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica

Focus: Colonel Saul Tigh

Summary: "My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet... that's the man I want to be."

Length: 4.20

password: tigh

Download: 30mb avi

Spoilers through 3.20 "Crossroads, Part II"

Notes: The frakked up Tigh vid that kept trying to distract me during my dissertation two months ago. Thanks to explodedpen for the ever necessary handholding and reassurances :)

Comments

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

This is a wonderful, moving vid, a harsh and yet sympathetic view of Tigh's trials and morals. It wasn't easy to watch, and I mean that in an extremely good way. Everything he's done, Galactica, his drinking, Ellen, you pull together so well in the first three-quarters of the vid; it's like salt in a wound by the time we get to him being one of the final four. Thank you for this.

[thelibraniniquity]

Wow, thank you for that. I have to admit, I never really noticed Tigh as anything more than a reasonably developed secondary character until the Occupation arc, but I remembered enough that everything he went through on New Caprica just threw everything into a much starker focus. I found it rather uncomfortable, lining up his life, while I was making the vid, and I'm glad it all conveyed in the end. Again, thank you for the feedback.

[earp-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm completely in agreement with the last comment. This is so moving, well done

[thelibraniniquity]

Thank you for the feedback :)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Here via a recc from heyiya.

This vid deserves much more feedback than this! It's beautiful and sad. As heyiya says, the way that you don't even introduce his Cylonness until the final section is brilliant because Saul Tigh is so much more than just that revelation. Like you, I never really thought too much about him until the start of season three, but this video shows why he's worth investing time in.

Anyway, it's great.

[thelibraniniquity]

Thank you so much for that feedback :)

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

Here via a rec on bsgvidrecs.

I found this so affecting and poignant. And I find myself echoing another comment on the vid, because it was surprisingly hard to watch. I didn't expect to be hit so strongly by the weight of his experience, even with all of the things I saw him do and go through on the show. I think you did a wonderful job weaving him into the wider picture, and I know that was part of why I was so moved. Really lovely work. :}

[thelibraniniquity]

I've been trying to think of a coherent reply to your comment for most of the evening, but nothing's come to mind so far. I've even gone back and re-watched the vid a couple of times to refresh my memory, it's been that long since I made it. I think mostly I just want to say thank you so much for the feedback, and I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the vid, as bleak as the subject matter was :)

[kaffy-r.livejournal.com]

This was rec'd over on Dreamwidth, in the fancake community, and I can see why. I know you put this up many years ago, but it's still fresh and brutally wonderful. Thank you, after all these years, for reminding me how much I loved Saul Tigh.

[thelibraniniquity]

Thank you so much for that. I'll admit I haven't even thought about this vid in years so hearing it has been recced and you enjoyed it is brilliant to hear.

[kaffy-r.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person that fancake sent over here!

[(Anonymous)]

Here via fancake. This vid! I missed it when it was originally posted, so I'm grateful it was recc'd at fancake. I was very much a fan of Saul Tigh, to see this after all these years just told me I was not wrong. Greatly flawed as he was there was more there. I loved the bit of him crossing through the snow, alone and battered and still moving forward. What a great vid.

[thelibraniniquity]

Thank you so much! I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed the vid after all this time.