Fanvid: Some Time Around Midnight

[bop_radar]

Song: Some Time Around Midnight
Artist: The Airborne Toxic Event
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Summary: Lee knows that Kara will break him in two.
Thanks: To m_a_r_i_k_s for betaing and for sharing the difficult emotional journey with this vid and engaging with it more than I could ever hope anyone would, to supacat for not getting it at first... but then getting goosebumps, and to kuwdora for enthusiastic support and keeping me sane when I drifted from reality on occasion.

This one broke ME in two.

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[wendelah1]

Here via tree. Wow. I had forgotten how much I loved this show, back in the day. I relate to your anger at how it ended, and was glad I hadn't stuck around for the fourth season. I got pissed off about the direction I thought the show might be headed around the middle of the third and quit watching, so there was a lot of new footage there for me. This was intense and painful as hell, but wonderful, too. Yes, he did love her, so very very much. And through the lens of your vid, it looks as though maybe, just maybe, she finally understood.

[bop_radar]

Oh wow, thanks so much for your comment! Part of me used to wish I'd had the strength to stop watching too. ;) I have reconciled with that now (stopped beating myself up for my masochism :p!) but believe me, that I respect your ability to decide for yourself where the show strayed from its original promise and not torture yourself. For me there were flickers, flashes and echoes in Season 4 of the ... for lack of a better word, organic journey for Kara and Lee (that made the surrounding CRAP even harder to deal with) so this vid was partly an attempt to reclaim some of my own truth from the dog's breakfast they made of it. It took a long time to get the confidence to reframe it the way that felt right to me. So comments like this mean a lot to me!

I do believe she understood by the end. I can't buy Kara-as-Angel. I *know* Kara and there she was KARA in these scenes with Lee. (The fact Katee had no idea what she was probably helped immensely!) I chose to focus on that--on the vibrant connection I felt pulsing between them still. In that reality, yes, I believe she got to a point where she could see through her inner pain to that truth.