From Chris Snellgrove
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In many ways, Ronald D. Moore was the perfect type for a restart Battlestar Galactica. As someone who gained a foothold as an author in Hollywood Star Trek: The next generationHe knows a few things about the difficulty of addressing older fans. Nevertheless, even he was not prepared for the extreme early counter reaction to his decision to make the Starbuck figure female for his newly launched series. However, when the show runner realized that all these noisers created the urgently needed free advertising, he started to deliberately annoy them whenever.
Make Starbucks a woman
The wild history of the Battlestar Galactica Showrunner and his angry fans are recorded in the book by Edward Gross/Mark A. Altman So we all say: the complete, uncensored, non -authorized oral tradition of Battlestar Galactica. In this book, Moore remembers the complex relationship that he had with the hardcore fans of the original series, who were annoyed by the changes he made, especially about the decision to make the popular figure Starbuck a woman. However, the show runner was not upset about the outcry of the fans, but soon realized that he now had a source of free advertising for the restart that he wanted to get on the way.
“When something came of it, I thought: Yes, just shook the flames, man,” said Moore. “We need any help that we can get.” At this point he was ready to encourage angry fans to “shout” and “get angry” because “I need the advertising”.
That is in a special cheek Battlestar Galactica Showrunner claims that he had asked the fans to “go to chat rooms” because “he needed more men who demanded Ron Moore’s head”. What makes this story so ironic, of course, is of course that Moore Starbuck has not gender -exchanged to make a statement about equality or something. He only wanted to avoid one of the oldest science fiction clichés.
The original Battlestar Galactica The show focused on the friendship between two very different pilots: Apollo, who loved to follow the rules, and died, who loved breaking them. This worked well in the 1978 original series, but Moore feared that genre fans would be fed up with this cliché if his reboot celebrated its premiere in 2003.
Regarding this, Moore told Starbuck that he had “simply realized that it would change everything”, including “the entire dynamics” between the characters. In addition, he wrote the show “Exactly at the time when we started to familiarize us with the idea of women in the struggle in the United States.” By making one of his most prominent and talented soldiers a woman, he made it possible to interface between Reality and fiction, a narrative technique Battlestar Galactica Should later be perfected to the delight of his fans.
Angry fans
Hence the Battlestar Galactica The showrunner did not try to boost the cultural struggle with the gender-specific adaptation of Starbuck’s character, but wanted to change the oldest science fiction cliché to make things appear fresh and interesting. However, when he realized how much his creative decision had annoyed the wasp nest of the angry fans, he did not hesitate to continue to step into this wasp nest in order to generate the publicity that his show needed to be successful. Unfortunately, the current media landscape is now different … instead of negativity that helps a program to find an audience, there is an entire home industry full of hatred YouTube Canals that try to destroy new franchises before they get going.
But serves anger as an anchor for offended fans? This is nothing new. Fans are upset that the makers simply try something different … As Moore’s cylons would probably remind us of it, everything has already happened and everything will happen again.
