Keeping track of Universal Studios rotten mismanagement of the "Battlestar Galactica" property for the past 48 consecutive years.
Universal Studios: "We wouldn't want to spend $150 Million on 10 new episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" even if spin-offs of "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" were both doing extremely well right now."
"Universal Studios" just forgot to throw in the "Ironic Twist", that's all!!
So, it's our fault, the fans....right? As in...."Universal Studios"...."Welfare Joe, Frugality"...with...."Battlestar Galactica"....dating back to 1978.
Got it!!
"So Say We All!!"
Universal Studios: " The marketplace is currently saturated with popular new content from "Star Wars" and "Star Trek." We're going to have to wait for the current enthusiasm to drain out of the marketplace before we try a new 'Battlestar' production."
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Richard A. Colla filmed his original version of "Saga of a Star World" (The "Galactica 1978 Pilot Episode" back in the Spring of 1978.) What he filmed was Leslie Steven's original concepts for the series. A more adult conception of the holocaust including more focus on refugee survivors, better character development between Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer. Focus on Cassiopia not as a med tech but as a "Socialator." The "Ovions" were graphic carnivores in this version. Makeup artist John Chambers and his crew spent months designing creatures for the "Carillon Casino." The entire movie was a solid, unedited event. The entire inhabitants spent a great deal of time planning their evacuation from "Carillon" because they knew ahead of time the planet was going to explode. Lots of extra footage of the Cylons and Ovions underground. Including the Cylons getting into the ground elevator and riding the elevator up to "Sire Uri's" speech towards the end.
Richard A. Colla filmed a good 85% of this more adult version of the pilot, before Alan J. Levi took over and filmed a more juvenile version of the pilot, which we have been stuck watching since 1978.
The production so ran out of money, that Dykstra and his crew couldn't afford to film the final explosion of "Carillon" at the end. Instead, stock animators at Universal Studios literally had to draw in a "Cartoon Explosion" of "Carillon" blowing up, which is why it never looked good and looked riduliculous.
What Richard A. Colla actually filmed:
1. There was a "Prostitution Ring" within the "Rag-Rag Fleet." Cassiopia wasn't the only "Socialator."
2. The Cylons were lizards wearing Cylon armor.
3. Graphic footage of the "Ovions" consuming humans.
4. "Ovions" being blasted with laser fire with their insides oozing out.
5. Dire survival situations the humans were coping with.
6. Richard A. Colla completed roughly 85% of the filming of his and Leslie Steven's "more adult" version of the "Galactica 1978 Pilot."
7. "Queen Seetol" (The Queen Ovion), having conversations with "Cylon Centurions" underground.
8. The actual beheading of "Baltar", not a quick cutaway. With blood.
9. More scenes of humans in the incubation chambers.
10. Extra footage of the 'Carillon Casino" implying that it is a very dangerous place, and not a "Las Vegas" hangout.
....More to come
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It wants to be the next..."ESPN"....but it has failed at everything else before then.
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1. Apollo and Zac and their patrolling of "Cimtar" goes on for alot longer in the destroyed footage. Longer skimming in and out of cloud cover and flybys of the tankers. Longer combat footage.
2. The "Cimtar" sequence intercut with Starbuck's card game.
3. Jim Peck as a "Caprican Newscaster." Possibly co-anchoring with Jane Seymour.
4. The attack on "Caprica" longer and more violent.
5. Longer footage with Adama and Baltar on "Caprica" after the "Cylon" attack.
6. More refugee survivor footage on the "Rising Star."
7. Footage of Apollo approaching the refugee survivors on "Caprica" near his "Viper" as an alternate take.
8. More council footage involving them, Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer.
9. Longer take of the fleet traversing the "Nova of Madagon" with close-up shots of the "Cylon Mines" and longer explosions of them.
10. Creatures in the "Carillon Casino" that are actually alien creatures and not merely actors in Mardi Gras costumes.
11. Extra footage of "Carillon Guests" discussing rumors that internal planetary pressures could cause the entire planet to explode.
12. More chaos of the planetary evacuation.
13. More footage of the Cylons and Ovions underground.
14. Longer fire fight across the underground bridge when the Cylons are chasing humans.
More to come.
"So Say We All!!"
