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CVM Productions presents Battlestar Redactica, a fan-edited, non-profit transformative work designed to offer a coherent alternative to the final 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica.

Material from all episodes is incorporated and re-arranged to create new storylines and significantly change many of the emotional emphases.

This project is designed as a celebration and reclaimation of an extraordinary story. When answers reduce rather than inspire, we can always ask more questions.

Anything you find here can be freely redistributed or linked, wherever, whenever, however, although I would take it as a personal favour if you did not take credit for having created it yourself.

My deepest thanks to my friends who supported me in this project and put up with the thousand drafts I threw at them.

( Where & How to Download. )

Battlestar Redactica.

1. Sometimes a Great Notion. (AIRED EPISODE)

( What the Frak Happened Official Recap. )

2. Battlestar Redactica: a Fan-edited Mutiny. (FAN-EDITED EPISODE)

( View with Streaming. )

3. No Exit. (AIRED EPISODE)

( What the Frak Happened Official Recap. )

4. Battlestar Redactica: a Fan-edited Resurrection. (FAN-EDITED EPISODE)

( View with Streaming. )

IF ANY LINKS STOP WORKING, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL RE-UPLOAD.

Also, I have attempted to compile a very basic FAQ in the post below (comments disabled). It is by no means exhaustive and I welcome any other questions you may have. I will do my best to answer and may add them to the FAQ.

It occurs to me that if this journal is going to serve as a comprehensive archive of this project, I ought to provide:

1) A complete(ish) list of canonical changes the fan-edits effect. I attempt to explain, briefly, some of the reasons behind these choices. They are, obviously, only my opinion. I also briefly explain how the changes were achieved (cuts/re-arrangement/theft of material from other episodes/voiceovers). This is not a record of every single cut/minor re-arrangement I made; there are several instances where I might have stolen a reaction shot from another episode, or merged two scenes together. This is an attempt to record the canonical changes and the broad ways in which I achieved this. The audio commentaries provide more detailed accounts.

2) An explanation of the new ending. Constraints of footage meant that I was unable to tell any coherent complete alternate ending, and ultimately the only thing I sought to conclusively convey was that the story was not over, that the questions were still exciting and inspiring, that we were leaving the story, in media res, on the brink of something enormous. I do, however, have my own interpretation of the ending, or what the Opera House and various prophecies mean, and how Resurrection answers these questions. For posterity, I shall record this here.

( Changes in Battlestar Redactica: a Fan-edited Mutiny. )

( Changes in Battlestar Redactica: a Fan-edited Resurrection. )

( An explanation of the Opera House in the context of Battlestar Redactica. )

So there you have it folks.

Kara brings about the Cybrid Apocalypse because she accepts she's half robot and lets Baltar tell the fleet she's half dead. Same way she accidentally woke up the Five and gave everyone creepy visions about the day she'd bring about the Cybrid Apocalypse, otherwise known as Hera Agathon's Bright, Shiny Future.

Hera is the Revolution.

Athena doesn't want her three year old to be the Revolution.

Caprica shows Hera the Cybrid Event Horizon, but Laura's not allowed to set foot in it.

The Opera House is all things alive, dead, human, cylon and generally out of its mind, but at least Sam Anders is there to welcome us.

I'd like to point everyone in the direction of the first ever Redactica-compatible music video!

Order in the Sound by chaila43.

I understand that I'm biased but I think it's utterly fabulous. It centres on Kara and her journey in light of the re-edited finale, as a confused, destined, uncertain, musical hybrid child in the middle of an entropic universe that seems to be decaying down to a single moment in an Opera House no one is sure means anything good.

And it's glorious.

I'm so completely honoured that someone would want to make a vid specifically designed to be compatible with this project, much less that the vidder would be so talented and make something so wonderful.

Hi all!

Well, five weeks later - almost as long as it took me to make the actual fan edits! - the DVD extras are here!

( DVD Covers. )

( Deleted & Alternate Scenes - Download & Streaming. )

( Audio Commentaries - Download Only. )

( A Fan-edited Mockumentary - Download & Streaming. )

( Stuff on the DVD Covers that's not here! )

IF ANY OF THESE LINKS EXPIRE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL REUPLOAD.