you'll live a half life ➸ kara and lee (battlestar galactica)

"When you're in the half light
It is not you I see"

▪subtitles available, please use them
▪fandom: battlestar galactica SPOILERS OF COURSE
▪song: in the video !!!

i've wanted to use this song since i first heard it on a stelena video.
it took me a while to figure out which couple i could use because it's not really a 'positive' song, is it?

it's about seeing only one half of the other person, understanding them but not quite, wanting to be close but being shut out ect.
so i was at a loss, i thought of carrie/quinn - but they're a bit too angsty for this song. or emma/hook (but they're being so cute lately, sooo)

and then it hit me, of course it was going to be lee and kara.
the boy in love with a supernova girl that was always too far away to reach, and was always going to burn out someday.

(don't @ me on the wrong science metaphor)

so it's from lee's pov, but it's very much an ode to kara thrace ♥
unsettled mad girl fighting out of habit and constantly spinning out of control

it's not like i think lee didn't /get/ kara (i mean, KARA didn't even get kara, let's be real)
but his frustration was clear on so many occasions.
how he could get through to her only for brief amount of times, before losing her all over again.
he lost her so many times, sigh.

so that's what i tried to show here. simple concept, simple editing. i had fun working with the 'lights' clips, tho!!
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▪ thank you to all those people who watched/left feedback on my previous lee/kara video despite it being on vimeo for copyrights reasons. it was nice of you letting me know what you thought!
▪ shout out to daisy (/user/xLivingInTheMomentx) for the overlays
▪ i would be remiss if i didn't mention this mulder/scully vid with the same song: /watch?v=H2b9I3L9daY watch it, it's so pretty