Sorry it's taken me so long to catch up, but I finally got a chance to watch and I just really liked this. It's interesting to see how many people qualified their comments -- don't like country, don't like this, don't usually watch vids, etc. I find that kind of distancing sort of amusing, but it seems as if you've managed to overcome a lot of that qualifying, so I think that counts as a definite success.
I loved the way you had the almost forced jauntiness of the song, which sounds very positive and happy in that Emmylou way yet is hiding a kind of wistful sadness at what's yet to come and the regrets of the past, backed up with that almost forced jauntiness that's so often evident in Starbuck.
When I first started watching the show, I was really not buying her at all -- it was too forced, too manufactured: oh, look, the tough chick who smokes cigars, blah blah. it felt comicy and like such a *boy* wrote her -- this is a cool chick to a teenage boy sort of thing. But they really won me over midway through the season, about the time she admitted to Cmdr. Adama about her son and her role in his death. Then I could finally see the real person, not the teenage boy sketch of a cool chick.
For me, what you did here was to capture that real person again -- you've hit the core of what makes her that cool chick, but also that haunted one, and that one who is struggling with her own demons and masks them with bravado and arrogance. That's what really makes this vid shine. Thank you!
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I loved the way you had the almost forced jauntiness of the song, which sounds very positive and happy in that Emmylou way yet is hiding a kind of wistful sadness at what's yet to come and the regrets of the past, backed up with that almost forced jauntiness that's so often evident in Starbuck.
When I first started watching the show, I was really not buying her at all -- it was too forced, too manufactured: oh, look, the tough chick who smokes cigars, blah blah. it felt comicy and like such a *boy* wrote her -- this is a cool chick to a teenage boy sort of thing. But they really won me over midway through the season, about the time she admitted to Cmdr. Adama about her son and her role in his death. Then I could finally see the real person, not the teenage boy sketch of a cool chick.
For me, what you did here was to capture that real person again -- you've hit the core of what makes her that cool chick, but also that haunted one, and that one who is struggling with her own demons and masks them with bravado and arrogance. That's what really makes this vid shine. Thank you!