dvo47p
August 14th, 2003, 12:31 PM
Ronald D. Moore on The Scifi Channel’s new Battlestar Galactica site posted:
"When I sat down and re-watched the original pilot," Moore says, "I was struck by the fact that, at its core, Galactica had a very, very dark premise. It may be the darkest premise of any pilot I've ever seen."
True enough but I don’t believe he has never said anything about the rest of the series. I find it somewhat odd to suppose that he has not watched the entire series, the good and not so good episodes. Moore is doing this mini without significant knowledge concerning the depth of the characters or the storyline of TOS.
This fits with Bonnie’s “So what we want to do is a four-hour mini. Basically, give it a new life – maintain the franchise but modernize it and if it works in a mini, then we’ll develop it into a series. If in fact the audience says, ‘Been there, done that’ then we won’t go there.”
Polaris was one of three candidates to be picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel. J. Michael Straczynski’s statement about ’Polaris’ was rejected for being "too science fictiony". That seems very peculiar for a cable channel named ‘The Scifi Channel’. I think they went with a Vampire mini and Tremors.
Not as odd as the Farscape last minute cancellation. Bonnie Hammer on the record @ Cinescape:
"We are excited to renew our commitment to this smart, sexy, intelligent and fun series that rewrites the book on sci-fi entertainment. Farscape is not only the most ambitious original series on basic cable, we think it's one of the best-written shows on television, period. It's no wonder that it's the top-rated series on SCI FI for three years running." Hammer went on to brag that Farscape increased the number of female viewers and broadened ‘The Scifi Channel’s demographics.
If Ms. Hammer was so enamored with the demographics of Farscape, why air Farscape at 10:00PM EST? The series was slated to finish its third season in January 2002, with a fourth season set to debut later in the year. Everyone knows what happened at the just before the last minute of production of the fifth season. The main protagonist engaged to the ‘babe’, then freeze dried in a rowboat.
"When I sat down and re-watched the original pilot," Moore says, "I was struck by the fact that, at its core, Galactica had a very, very dark premise. It may be the darkest premise of any pilot I've ever seen."
True enough but I don’t believe he has never said anything about the rest of the series. I find it somewhat odd to suppose that he has not watched the entire series, the good and not so good episodes. Moore is doing this mini without significant knowledge concerning the depth of the characters or the storyline of TOS.
This fits with Bonnie’s “So what we want to do is a four-hour mini. Basically, give it a new life – maintain the franchise but modernize it and if it works in a mini, then we’ll develop it into a series. If in fact the audience says, ‘Been there, done that’ then we won’t go there.”
Polaris was one of three candidates to be picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel. J. Michael Straczynski’s statement about ’Polaris’ was rejected for being "too science fictiony". That seems very peculiar for a cable channel named ‘The Scifi Channel’. I think they went with a Vampire mini and Tremors.
Not as odd as the Farscape last minute cancellation. Bonnie Hammer on the record @ Cinescape:
"We are excited to renew our commitment to this smart, sexy, intelligent and fun series that rewrites the book on sci-fi entertainment. Farscape is not only the most ambitious original series on basic cable, we think it's one of the best-written shows on television, period. It's no wonder that it's the top-rated series on SCI FI for three years running." Hammer went on to brag that Farscape increased the number of female viewers and broadened ‘The Scifi Channel’s demographics.
If Ms. Hammer was so enamored with the demographics of Farscape, why air Farscape at 10:00PM EST? The series was slated to finish its third season in January 2002, with a fourth season set to debut later in the year. Everyone knows what happened at the just before the last minute of production of the fifth season. The main protagonist engaged to the ‘babe’, then freeze dried in a rowboat.