Hatch Shares Some Insights About TNS

[koenigrules]

In the February 2005 issue of SCI FI Magazine, Richard Hatch had this to say about TNS of BSG:

My issues have never been with Ron Moore or the cast of the show itself. My issues were with the network and the studio over doing a reimagining versus a continuation, which is what the majority of fans wanted to see. It was never over the quality of the writing or the actors or what was good about this new series.

Once the decision was made to reimagine, I had to move beyond my bias and prejudice and frustrations and basically be able to look at the new show for what it is and not for what it isn't. I think when you look at the show for what it is, and you separate the shows and don't compare them, I think this show is so different in tone, quality and style that it's really its own show. And it does an injustice to both shows to compare them. It's impossible to compare them...You can actually love the original show and enjoy this show for what it is, and there's nothing wrong with that. I think fans were thinking that you had to choose sides, and I think we're beyond choosing sides.

In Hatch's episodes, old and new collide when his character takes the new Apollo, played by Bamber, as a hostage. Bamber says:
I was very nervous about meeting him, just because, you know, if you believe what you read about the fan sites and stuff, he was quite obviously disappointed by the decision that Universal made to make our show, so I was sort of apprehensive. But as soon as I met him, he's a very warm, generous...creative guy who very much appreciated what we were doing.

As the two Apollos bonded, they traded war stories:
He [Hatch] was saying he envied us a great deal, because this show is much more organized, apparently, than the original one was. The original...scripts would arrive [at the] last minute. They were shooting seven days a week, 15, 16...17 hours a day, and it was a real struggle to put the shows out every couple weeks. So he envied...the quality of the writing that we had.

In the end, Bamber and Hatch even posed for a photograph together in front of Apollo's Viper. [Bamber notes about Hatch]
He was thrilled by seeing the old Viper. It took him back, and he said it was much better than the one he had to work with.

You can read more about Hatch's views on TNS in the current SCI FI Magazine.

[mjm800]

koenigrules said:

In the February 2005 issue of SCI FI Magazine, Richard Hatch had this to say about TNS of BSG:

My issues have never been with Ron Moore or the cast of the show itself. My issues were with the network and the studio over doing a reimagining versus a continuation, which is what the majority of fans wanted to see.

Here is where I am at a loss. I am a fan of the original and I was completely unaware that there even was a continuation effort of any kind, until it was announced that RDM would be doing a reimagining and then I became acutely aware of the opposition to it and the reasons why. Even still it was the same five guys posting all over the internet and not the sweeping majority of the TOS fan base.

So who are the majority that Hatch refers too, because I would think that the majority of TOS fans where like myself. We grew up with the show and we loved the show, but we where not registered on internet message boards discussing a continuation project. Are we talking millions, of course not, tens of thousands, unlikely, thousands, maybe, a few hundred rabid fans, highly probable. This is the majority of fans who wanted a continuation, versus those that were excited and willing to give the reimagining a chance.

[Xenu]

So who are the majority that Hatch refers too, because I would think that the majority of TOS fans where like myself. We grew up with the show and we loved the show, but we where not registered on internet message boards discussing a continuation project. Are we talking millions, of course not, tens of thousands, unlikely, thousands, maybe, a few hundred rabid fans, highly probable. This is the majority of fans who wanted a continuation, versus those that were excited and willing to give the reimagining a chance.

I'm thinkin' you're pretty spot-on there, mjm....