A continuation may not have been a mark of quality, but it would have shown that they did in fact listen to the audience already in place.
And I believe the numbers were big enough. I remember a Sci-Fi article that said there was a LARGE number of fans that wanted a continuation.
And before there was a re-imagining Richard Hatch was going from town to town, con to con, talking with fans, listening to them. He put forth his own money to get Battlestar on the air, they way the fans preferred it.
Sometimes you don't need to see a show. Fans didn't go in blind on this. The script was leaked, reviews were published. There was so much info released on the web one didn't have to watch the mini. They probably did out of curiosity, or because they wanted to show interest in Battlestar in hopes of getting Tom DeSanto's project back off the ground.
And discarding the original fanbase was a mistake, if not for one reason alone. When doing a production, ANY production, whether it be a stage play, T.V. show, movie, comedy act, anything they are doing it for an audience. It is the producer's, writer's actor's and director's job to bring that audience to see that show. They are to bring in the audience.
There was an audience already in place. Moore and Universal did not want that audience. That was a mistake.
Every production is done for an audience. If you are not in the buisness to do something for an audience you have no buisness being in it.
By that estimation the people in charge of Universal, RDM, David Eick, and the Sci-Fi channel have no buisness doing a Battlestar production, or any production if they are going to discard an already in place audience.
We would have come around to RDM's story if he was willing to compromise. WE WERE WILLING! HE WASN'T! We would have settled for a prequel, sidestory or distant continuation. Something that maintained the original, and would have allowed Moore to do what he wanted and we would have respected his work more. He didn't want to do that. We didn't want the baby thrown out with the bathwater. He did.
By ignoring and disregarding us, he has earned his disrespect, as well as those that pushed forth the re-imagining. We TOS fans were willing to compromise. Moore and Universal weren't.
One needs to work with the audience, not toss them aside.
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