Moore's Galactica Is Less
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue306/letters.html
I happened upon the new Battlestar Galactica page at
www.scifi.com/battlestar/ and read with great interest the letter from Ron Moore about the new project. Being a fan of the original, I am a little perplexed at some of news. I don't remember Starbuck being a woman in the old series. I can agree with much of what Ron Moore says, especially going into more depth and complexity in the characters. No one wants to see the clock set back to 1978 in this show. I do disagree with him on this though: Why can't the new show coexist with the storyline established in the original Battlestar Galactica, rather than denying that to us? Prequels worked with Star Wars and a continuation 80 years later worked for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Could Ron Moore's script be adapted to work in that way, too?
Ron Moore speaks of waking a slumbering giant with this show. I'm afraid that with his current script, he is not waking up that giant, but substituting it with a white elephant.
Steve Parady
animator@kua.net
Yet another BSG letter to the Science Fiction Weekly
