Oh lord I vidded again

[sapote]

Was struck down by fierce vidding craving during the viewing chat for SGA 3x08.

Title: Bittersweet
Episodic minivid (about 1:30) for "McKay and Mrs. Miller".
Summary: Jeannie and her choices.

Imeem here
Megaupload download here (reupped on March 13 2008!)

My editorializing here

Comments

[cerriddwen.livejournal.com]

EEE! It captured everything we were talking about in the chat and some of the things that were not. This vid totally filled my need for Jeannieness. Thanks for making it. (I'm Phnelt btw)

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Pnelt! HI! Welcome to my lj! And thank you for the compliment!

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

I know you totally don't know me, but I was wondering if you were ok with me friending you. I'd really like to keep up with your stuff, anything a tenth as good as this would make me like Kermit.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Yay friends! I am pro-friend.

some thoughts and a little Margaret Atwood

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Ok,I return a day later with some slightly more coherent thoughts. I emphasize the slightly. In the show, Rodney is represented as disappointed that his sister gave up academia, like he really thought she was brilliant (a high compliment from a man who usually stops at "not a complete waste of air"). So, go Rodney. At the same time, she's given it up to have a family. I'm not going to take sides on the staying at home thing, 'cause it's a really complicated issue, and I am not good enough at conveying what I mean without expansive hand gestures. But I will say that I feel the way the show presented it as that there are only two choices. And maybe there are.
Mostly I end up disappointed with the show (and I try not to with SGA, mostly because once I start I'll never stop-the holes are too deep) because they didn't do anything with it. They never say anything about the women, whether they be scientist, military, or something else special. I don't have that much more to say, mostly because it's been said better by people more eloquent than I, but I wanted to let you know how I feel your vid took steps to address the writers' gross failings. As a woman, I appreciate it. Now, because I am pretentious, here are some Margaret Atwood quotes from the poem Spelling:
I wonder how many women
denied themselves daughters,
closed themselves in rooms,
drew the curtains
so they could mainline words

A child is not a poem
a poem is not a child.
there is no either/or
However.

Spelling (the poem) captures to me the paradox of work and children. You can have both, you should have both, and at the same time you can't. I hope this made any sense at all.

Re: some thoughts and a little Margaret Atwood

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Yes! yes! Those words! ::dances::
Thank you for bringing me those.

Maybe the vid looks like I take sides, but I really can't either. I want to have children someday. I used to work as a nanny, watching other women try to navigate those boundaries. I don't know the answer. I just like to poke at the question from time to time.

Re: some thoughts and a little Margaret Atwood

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

I don't know the answer either. And I didn't mean to imply that you were taking sides (curse lack of gestures), I just wanted to express my appreciation for you bringing it up at all and treating it fairly. No more, no less (for this is by far enough)

Re: some thoughts and a little Margaret Atwood

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Hey! I actually got that, and intended my reply as agreement, not defense!
::contemplates potentially infinite regression of misinterpretation possible on the internet::

In conclusion: this conversation has been PRETTY YAY, in my opinion.

Re: some thoughts and a little Margaret Atwood

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

*whew*, maybe I'm getting the hang of this communication via written word thing. :contemplates the asymptotic progression incomprehensibility in conversation:
I love having conversations like this.