By Chris Snellgrove
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In many ways, Ronald D. Moore was the perfect guy to restart Battlestar Galactica. As a person who broke into Hollywood to write to Star Trek: The next generationHe knows a few things about the difficulty of calling on older fans. However, even he was not prepared for the extremely early reaction of his decision to make the female Starbuck character for his restarted series. However, once the showrunner realized that all of these opponents created a much necessary free advertising, he decided to deliberately put them in anger whenever possible.
Make starbuck a woman
The wild history of Battlestar Galactica Showrunner and his angry fans are captured in the book of Edward Gross / Mark A. Altman So let’s all say: complete oral history, not censored and unauthorized Battlestar Galactica. In this book, Moore remembers the complex relationship he had with the hardcore fans of the original series that were bored by the changes he brought, in particular the decision to make the popular character Starbuck a woman. Rather than being angry with the whole outcry, the showrunner quickly realized that he now had a free source of advertising for the restart he was trying to start.
“Once it has become one thing, so I said to myself, yes, I just put these flames, guy,” said Moore. “We need all the help we can get.” At that time, he was ready to encourage angry fans to “scream on this subject” and to “get angry” for the simple fact that “I need advertising”.
In a particular player of player, the Battlestar Galactica Showrunner claims that he urged fans to “go to cat rooms” because he needed “more men demanding Ron Moore’s head”. Of course, part of what makes this story so ironic is that Moore did not make Starbuck Genderswap to make a declaration on equality or anything. He just wanted to get around one of the oldest shots of science fiction.
The original Battlestar Galactica Show strongly concentrated on the friendship between two very different pilots: Apollo, who liked to follow the rules, and Starbuck, who liked to break them. This worked well for the original show of 1978, but Moore feared that gender fans would be tired of this cliché trophy when its 2003 restart was presented at first.
Regarding the Starbuck a woman, Moore said that he “had just realized that it would change everything”, including “all the dynamics” between the characters. In addition, he wrote the program “just to the point where we started to familiarize ourselves with the idea of women in combat in the United States”. Consequently, making her most eminent and talented soldiers a woman allowed the intersection of reality and fiction, a narration technique Battlestar Galactica Would later perfection the greatest pleasure of his fans.
Angry fans
Therefore, the Battlestar Galactica The showrunner was not trying to relaunch the cultural war with his staging of the character of Starbuck … Instead, he wanted to change the oldest cliché fiction in order to make things seem fresh and interesting . Once he realized how much his creative decision had turned the Hornet fans’ nest upside down, however, he did not hesitate to continue to kick this nest in order to generate advertising only his show was to succeed. Unfortunately, the current media landscape is now different … Instead of negativity to help a spectacle to find an audience, there is a whole industry cottage of hateful YouTube Canals trying to destroy new franchises before leaving the ground.
The anger used as anchoring for injured fans? It’s nothing new. Fans angry with creators simply trying something different … because Moore’s cylons would probably remind us, all of this has happened before, and all this will happen again.
