By Chris Snellgrove
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These days, the restart of Ronald Moore Battlestar Galactica is considered to be the Order of Premium science fiction. This is the kind of visually magnificent and philosophically committing spectacle that, frankly, we can only hope that Star Trek or Star Wars never give us. However, we are lucky that this ambitious restart has ever succeeded due to its first disastrous projections. According to Moore himself, Battlestar Galactica The test projections in Houston and even during a fans convention almost brought out only the hatred of the public.
Fans hated test tests
Before Syfy published the Battlestar Galactica Restart, they decided to hold test screening in Houston, Texas, to see what the public thought of the new show. In Moore’s words, the discussion group “Really F ** King hated that”, and the cover sheet said something to “this is one of the worst tests that we have never had” . The interest in consulting the discussion group was to assess how the general public would react, and Moore was dismayed to read comments as “we do not see any reason why you would like to choose this series in series.”
Obviously, these Battlestar Galactica Test screening comments were sufficient, but according to Moore, “the analyzes were even worse”. Houston’s discussion group “in a way loved Eddie Olmos as an insama, but he was the only one, and even it was a kind of mediocre number”. Consequently, the network “entered a panic in its own right, but they were already so pregnant with the show” and could not exactly hand over the cat (or in this case, the viper) in the bag.
While the Battlestar Galactica Test tests in Houston were a bust, Ronald Moore had another opportunity to win the public when he showed the pilot episode to Galacticon participants, a science fiction agreement dedicated to the original Galactica series. On paper, it would have been a very friendly audience. In reality, these fans somehow hated the restart more. “I dropped the lights of the house, played the show, played all along, then the lights of the house arise and they hoarse and whistled,” said Moore, insisting on the fact: “I don’t not catch up. “
As with the Houston Battlestar Galactica Test screenings, this immediate reaction was bad enough to make Moore know what the play felt about his new show. Unfortunately, he had to take “public questions”, which he described as “tireless” fans who “thought it was an affront, thought it was an insult to the original and terrible spectacle”. In addition, “they hated Starbuck”, which cement how horrible these opinions of fans were.
Apollo saves the day
Fortunately, there was a silver lining for Moore to this Battlestar Galactica Convention. After the projection of the test, everyone put everyone angry, an unexpected hero came to the rescue of the besieged showrunner. This hero was Richard Hatch, a star from the original series and a very popular participant. Hatch got up in front of all these angry fans and told them that they should show Moore visiting the respect he deserved; In turn, Moore was so moved by this piece of real heroism that he threw Hatch into the restart.
Retrospectively, the story of these first disastrous Battlestar Galactica Test screening is really mind -boggling. Not only is the show incredible, but its first efforts like mini-series were essentially a prestige science fiction The film has shrunk for the small screen. After being broadcast, he ended up transforming the television landscape for the best, inaugurating the type of science Star Trek. But we are lucky that the show was broadcast after getting angry the first audiences that have ever seen it.
With a little luck, future science fiction creators will learn certain lessons from Moore’s disastrous Battlestar Galactica The test tests, which make two things very clear: a handful of fans do not speak to the public everywhere, and the restarts better are better different rather than sparing the same tired material. Moore’s restart did everything differently and was much more successful because of this. In one way or another, we doubt that the managers of the risk network will never be comfortable with such an approach, which means that we are condemned to restarts, suites and lukewarm prequels until What cylons end up ending up with the cylons.
