Posted on 04/10/2006 7:23:50 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The latest issue of DreamWatch features an interview with actor Richard Hatch, who played Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica TV Series and now plays Tom Zarek in the Galactica remake.
Hatch talked about how he continues to feel that a continuation of the original series would have been just as successful as the Ronald D. Moore's re-imagining.
"I don't think a continuation would have been any less successful than a re-imagining," he stated firmly. "A continuation would have evolved the original show: it would have updated the Cylons, brought new characters in and gone into equally provocative areas. We could have had Eddie Olmos as the Commander, Mary as President, Jamie [Bamber] as Apollo's son, and Katee [Sackhoff] as Starbuck's Daughter. And we would have loved to have brought Ron Moore onboard too."
"A continuation would have had the best of both worlds – it would have had the values and positives of the old show but would have updated them for today. It also wouldn’t have had the problems the new show had in the beginning, when fans of the original felt upset and disappointed."
Additionally, a few years ago, Hatch created a visual proof-of-concept by executive producing, co-scripting, co-directing, and acting in Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming. This is a 4-1/2 minute, professional film trailer by Hatch which illustrated his concepts for a new Battlestar Galactica TV Series or movie continuation of the original series.
More from Hatch can be found at Sci Fi Pulse.
Brown Acid!
At least he's not all "sour grapes" like the old Starbuck.
I enjoyed the show as a kid.. I think the worst was Galactica 1980....
True.... I was skeptical at first, however, I gave the show the proper chance....
Any version that does not have that invisible cylon blond woman or the wimpy dude that was elected president would be an improvment. Yes it is fiction but science fiction only works if it is at least probable.
What, turn BSG into Battlestar Galactica: The Next Generation?? This dude needs help. Sure, it worked for Star Trek, for a time, until the spin offs came along and it all got watered down in the utopian ideal (thnakfully, compitition stirred up some drama in the later years). I don't understand what is wrong with some people. The new BSG is not the old BSG. It is similar, but it is re-imagined, not continued. What a moron!
Okay, I would love to see the trailer. Where can I download it?
Waddya talkin about? That Cylon blond woman is smoking hot!
Good question....
Seems like I read somewhere that he was prohibited from showing the full trailer for some reason. Is that still true?
Hatch's character should prove interesting. A Marxist terrorist turned VP won't be boring that's for sure.
On God, was that ever a real barfer!
The new BSG jumped the shark in the season finale IMO.
He is luck the Ron is giving him a chance to appear in his show.. I just wish members of the original cast would show up...
Where's Grace?
And of course the next 60 minutes were extraordinaliry painful as I watched them land on some stupid insect hive planet resort.
Hatch is dreaming if a continuation would be better. DREAMING.
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