Chris Snellgrove | publishing
In many ways, Ronald D. Moore is the perfect character for a reboot Battlestar Karatika. As someone who broke into Hollywood writing Star Trek: The Next Generationhe learned a few things about the difficulty of attracting older fans. Still, even he wasn’t shocked by his decision to cast Starbuck’s character in the rebooted series. But once the showrunner realized that all these naysayers were creating some much-needed liberal publicity, he started being deliberately outraged when possible.
make starbuck a woman
wild story Battlestar Karatika Performer and his angry fans arrested in Edward Gross/Mark A. Altman book So Says Us All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Space-Speaking Galaxy. In that book, Moore recalled his complicated relationship with die-hard fans of the original series, who were annoyed by the changes he had made, particularly the decision to make popular character Starbuck a woman. Rather than take offense to the fan outcry, though, the show host quickly realized he now had a free source of publicity as he tried to stand out from the crowd with his reboot.
“Once it became a thing, I was like yeah, yeah, man, those fires,” Moore said. “We need all the help we can get.” Until then, he’s ready to encourage outraged fans to “yell” and “get mad” because I need the publicity. “
on a specific cheek Battlestar Karatika The Showrunner claimed he urged fans to “go to the chat rooms” because he needed “more men asking for Ron Moore’s head”. Of course, what makes this story so ironic is that Moore wasn’t making a statement for equality or anything. He was simply trying to avoid one of the oldest clichés in science fiction.
original Battlestar Karatika The show focuses very much on the friendship between two very different pilots: Apollo, who likes to follow the rules, and Starbuck, who likes to break them. This worked well on the original 1978 show, but Moore worried that genre fans would grow tired of the cliche telescope that debuted in his 2003 reboot.
Regarding making Starbuck a woman, Moore said he “just realized it was going to change everything,” including “the whole dynamic” between the characters. Plus, he’s writing the show “at a moment when we’re starting to become familiar with the idea of women in combat in America.” So making one of his most distinguished and talented soldiers a woman allows for the intersection of reality and fiction, and it’s a storytelling skills Battlestar Karatika will later perfectly satisfy the delight of its fans.
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therefore, Battlestar Karatika The Showrunner isn’t trying to start a culture war with the gender-bending of his Starbuck character…rather, he wants to shake up science fiction’s oldest clichés to make things seem fresh and interesting. Still, once he realized that his creative decisions were upsetting the Hornet’s nest of angry fans, he didn’t hesitate to continue kicking that nest in order to generate the publicity his show needed to succeed. Unfortunately, the current media landscape is different now… instead of a negative landscape, there is a whole cottage industry of hateful YouTube channels trying to destroy new franchises before they get off the ground.
But is anger an anchor for victimized fans? Nothing new. Fans who are angry at creators just tried something different… and as Moore’s Cerrone might remind us, all of this has happened, and all of this will happen again.
