How Hollywood made a mistake in generations with bad scientific badness this century

by Joshua Tyler
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When re -visualized BATLESTAR GALACTICA It ended in March 2009, he had two things that needed a privilege: the heat of the public and the critical credibility. During its operation, the theaters’ display rings were broadcast to the vibrant fans. It was a cooled water topic from conversation and absorbed even people who were not in science fiction.

The average final range reached 2.2 million viewers in the United States, and the end has increased to 2.4 meters, the best number in the exhibition for years. These may not seem large numbers, but it was huge for an offer that is broadcast on SYFY, which is essential people in the cable canal that are ignored in another way.

when BATLESTAR GALACTICA It reached a DVD disk, became more success as people bought the box groups and moved once in the pre -reporting era. BATTLESTAR The idea of ​​evil viewing is popular, which puts the stage for Running The future will come.

the BSG The universe was completely prepared to become larger and become a kind of huge media concession that lasts for generations. Star Trek She turned herself into the Mega concession after canceling three seasons, and here it was BATLESTAR GALACTICA Ride a wave of success that should have made it easier to pay to the next level.

Instead, the follow -up in troubled movements came out of attention and training fans to stop logging in. Just a few years after its success, the BatTlessar Galactica was a dead privilege, which is absent from the generation once by the mother’s syfy, NBCunivesal.

How NBCUNIVERSAL dispelled the potential of BatTlessar Galactica with its next offer

NBCU/Syfy released the accompanying pieces: shaving (2007) During running and DVD only the heart the plan (2009) After that, but arrived “What’s the Next” Caprika In 2010.

Creative and different aspiration from the rope (corporate conspiracies on space fighting), Caprika He gave the fans something with the name Battlestar Galactica on him, which did not bear any similarity with the privilege they loved other than his name.

Imagine if, after Star Trek It was canceled in the 1960s, CBS decided to follow up with A. Star Trek A police collection on the ground, and you will start understanding what is a terrible error Caprika He was.

Caprica needed to schedule the patient and a clear runway to overcome the obstacle of his hypothesis. You didn’t get.

Categories fell from a height of 1.6 meters in the middle of the season to <900 thousand after stopping; Next, SyFY canceled the show and pulled the remaining episodes of its schedule, and burned it after months. Whatever the audience is ready to follow the wrong lesson: do not invest.

After CAPRICA, NBCUNIVERSAL stops care

After Caprica, the series Blood and chrome It was announced, and the matter seemed to be the novice in the crowds that they had to make in the first place. It was about Adama in the Cylon war environment.

Unfortunately, NBCunivesal has already resigned BSG. Instead of a quick series and a dangerous investment, the project arrived as a web from 10 parts on Machinima in late 2012, and just later as a TV movie in early 2013.

BatTLESTAR GALACTICA needs Grand Star Trek: Motion Image-Style Blockbuster Movie to push it to the next level. NBCuniversal gave it a low budget web chain.

Product David E you are in public position Blood and chrome As “always means” on the Internet, but this did not make it better; He made it more insulting.

Syfy is converted into a wrestling channel

While all this was revealed, the channel that was launched BATLESTAR GALACTICA He was re -putting himself. The Sci Fi channel was renamed in 2009 and was more difficult in reality/the most resuming wrestling alongside this type.

Converting the science fiction channel into a wrestling channel has always been a strange option. He has eased the feeling of “space opera here”, when Galactica Fans needed a reliable house for the caliph. Trade coverage and industry suspension at that time called the transformation and cancellation of gatherings on text quality Science fiction.

NBCUNIVERSAL aims for science fiction Ron Moore away

UNIVERSAL finally started to announce the BatTlessar Galactica movies. However, they were all boiling, not the continuity of the offer. There was one with Bryan Singer attached in 2011, after that Francis Lawrence in 2016, then Simon Kinberg in 2020. None of them actually happened.

What happened is that NBCuniversal clearly indicates the fans that the science fiction world that was in the generation spent ten years in construction was thrown into the garbage and that if it was BSG From the time ago they returned, they will start again from scratch. UNIVERSAL produced a successful offer and then decided to erase it and start again instead of continuing to grow.

Imagine, instead of giving William Shatner Captain Kerk A movie, they were re -drafted and reformulated all the same episodes again. Or instead of making a new offer that was appointed in the same universe Next generationStar Trek wiped the clean menu, created a new science fiction world, and slapped the old name on it.

Unfortunately, this is the usual practice now in Hollywood.

This mentality is the reason why there is no other long -term scientific world like Star Trek or Star Wars, which is why there is no. BatTLESTAR GALACTICA was completely ready to take this trip, but no one at Universal did not dare real investment.

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