Battlestar Galactica had annoyed his most fans for purpose

By Chris Snellgrove
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In many ways, Ronald D. Moore was the perfect guy to restart Battlestar Galactica. As someone who broke into Hollywood writing for Star Trek: Next GenerationHe knows a few things about difficulty appealing to older fans. Still, even he was ready for the extreme early backlash to make the Starbuck character a woman for his restarted series. However, once the Showrunner realized that all the people who drop by this created some much needed free publicity, he went out to deliberately annoy him whenever possible.

Make Starbuck a Woman

The wild story of the Battlestar Galactica Showrunner and his angry fans are caught in the Book of Edward Gross/Mark A. Altman So we all say: complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Battlestar Galactica. In that book, Moore remembers the complex relationship he had with the hard core fans of the original series who were irritated on the changes he was making, especially the decision to make the popular Starbuck character a woman. Instead of being angry at all the fan battle, however, the Showrunner soon realized that he now had a free source of publicity for the restart he was trying to get off the ground.

“Once it became a thing, then I was like, yes, just those flames, man,” said Moore. “We need all the help we can get.” By then, he was willing to encourage wild fans to “shout about it” and “annoy” for the simple fact that I “need the publicity.”

In a certain amount of rude, the Battlestar Galactica Showrunner claims he encouraged fans to “go to chat rooms” because he needs “more males demanding Ron Moore’s head.” Of course, part of what makes this story so ironic is that Moore was not sexy Starbuck to make a statement about equality or anything. He wanted alongside one of the oldest stereotypes of science fiction.

The original Battlestar Galactica Demonstrates greatly on the friendship between two very different pilots: Apollo, who loved following the rules, and Starbuck, who loved to break them. That worked well for the original 1978 show, but Moore was worried that genre fans would be tired of this cliched trope by the time it was restarted in 2003 for the first time.

In terms of making Starbuck a woman, Moore said he “just realized that that would change everything,” including “all the dynamics” between the characters. He was also writing the show “Right on the point where we were starting to familiarize yourself with the idea of ​​women in fighting in the United States.” Thus, making one of his most prominent and talented troops, a woman allowed for the cross section of reality and fiction, a storytelling technique Battlestar Galactica Later perfectly to his fans.

Angry fans

Therefore, the Battlestar Galactica Showrunner wasn’t trying to jump up the culture war with his gender of Starbuck’s character … instead, he wanted to change sci-fi’s oldest cliche to make things appear fresh and interesting. Once he realized how much his creative decision had upset the Hornet’s nest of angry fans, however, he did not hesitate to kick that nest to produce the publicity his show needed to succeed. Unfortunately, the current media landscape is now different … instead of negativity helps a show find an audience, there is a whole cottage industry of hateful Youtube Channels that try to destroy new franchises before they come off the ground.

The anger serving as an anchor for offensive supporters, though? That’s nothing new. Fans are angry with creators just trying something different … as Moore’s colons would likely remind us, it all happened before, and it all will happen again.