Before there was a Tom DeSanto or RDM

[peter noble]

I wrote the piece below after reading KORN_FAN2's latest diatribe on the Sci-Fi board.

I was writing letters to Universal to bring this show back to our screens. I've been a Battlestar Galactica fan for nearly 25 years and I've fought, and will fight – to see my show treated with respect, like the classic it is.

Galactica's fans are spread out in pockets all over the world. Some fan clubs, for example the Thirteenth Tribe in the UK (one of the oldest BSG fan clubs) has no net presence at all.

Yet a fan in India can still email battlestargalactica.com and register his disbelief at the reimagining, and a fan in Australia can still build an exact replica of the battlestar herself after years of studying videos and stills.

Welcome to the rag tag fleet that is Galactica fandom, 25 years old and still keeping the dream alive.

Despite the ravings of a two year wonder CGI monkey with his head up his ****, we've done quite well over the last couple of years despite the trials and tribulations of the crazy world of Hollywood.

We've mounted several campaigns that have had high turnouts (maybe one to many petitions though) and we actually won the TrekLord poll.

So keep on fighting, we actually made TPTB pause for thought.

Now maybe I'm wrong (hey it's a possibility) and our time has passed, BUT the feeling in my gut says NO.

I'll tell TPTB this. At the end of the day you'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar.

Regards

Peter Noble

P.S.To misquote Adama in Saga: This reimagining feels like crap, smells like crap, I believe it is crap!

[dah66]

I read the post by Korn_Fan2. To a certain degree, I believe he was trying to "stir up" the troops. It will probably backfire. Like you said, you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Still, if what he said about the letters is accurate, then people need to get busy and send a letter ASAP. Right now, letters are important. The suits realize that it takes time, effort, and some pocket change to send snail mail. They have some formula where one person that writes a letter equals a hundred potential viewers (or something like that).

I wrote my first letter asking for the return of Galactica long before I started posting on-line and I'm still writing letters today.

Please send letters to the addresses below. Encourage others to do so as well. Thanks.

Mr. Barry Diller
Chairman and CEO
Universal Entertainment Group
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608 USA
re: Battlestar Galactica
Ms. Susan Krakower
SR VP Programming & Development
StudiosUSA - 5th Floor
1325 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6026 U.S.A.

Mr. David Kissinger
President of Network TV
StudiosUSA
8800 Sunset Blvd. 7th Floor
West Hollywood, CA 90069-2117 U.S.A.

Ms. Sarah Timberman
President of Programming
StudiosUSA
8800 Sunset Blvd. 7th Floor
West Hollywood, CA 90069-2117 U.S.A.

P.S. I have friends all over the world and its amazing how many of them fondly remember Galactica (I work for a global company).

[jewels]

If Galactica was not relevant why in the last 25 years have there been:
* 3 different series of comics
* 2 series of novels
* analytical volumes on Galactica
* magazine articles that span the entire quarter century
* Fan clubs around the world
* Published and internet fanzines and newsletters
* Role playing games
* Fan Fiction websites with over 400 individual stories (and I hate to think how many stories were done before the web)
* Fan artwork of original show elements
* mailing lists that predated web email
* Discussion groups and forums
* At one time: 2800 individual websites (that's more web sites than there were people in my hometown in 1978, btw) with several megasites
*9 pages of Galactican memorabilia, videos, photos, books, comics & toys per week on average auctioned on ebay (this is just in the last 6 months, btw).
* Several Cons geared just for Galactica fans

And my personal favorite sign of life, pre-revival hoopla began 5 years ago:
* Constant pirating of the videos (since broadcast it seems! check ebay if you have doubts) and sales (since release) of the PAL and NTSC tapes (I am contending that pirating in this case is a symptom of Universal not being on the ball and realizing there is a market they could have served--if you work for Universal and you are reading this: get with the program on those DVDs please).

Most of these occured without graphic, gratuitous sex (my disclaimer being I've not read all the fanfic, but most is PG rated that I know of.)

I'm not mentioning the various production attempts from the last 5 years because I wanted to focus on completed projects and fan work. And we talk those constantly.

[captmiloman]

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