Debunking Russell Sanders "Universal Studios Has a Halo Above Its Head" Schtick

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At no time during the past 33 years have Universal Studios executives ever wanted to make the fanbase of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series happy. The fans have only gotten unrelenting hostility from this corporation from every conceivable standpoint. The "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series remains unrevived to this day because there remains a ceaseless conspiracy going on against it within the "Universal Studios Black Tower." An internal corporate conspiracy beginning in the summer of 1979.

The "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series itself has received nothing but unrelenting hostility from Universal Studios executives beginning in the summer of 1979. "Black Tower executives" half-heartedly tried to sell the series to CBS-TV after it was cancelled by ABC-TV in April 1979. (They didn't try very hard.) Universal Studios agreed to (and should have turned down) ABC-TV's request for "Galactica: 1980" in January 1980. They didn't. Universal Studios then steamrolled its way into the fall of 1980 with episodes of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series badly edited and spliced together for a series of syndicated telefilms. Quite frankly these didn't go over well because of the cold-blooded butchering involved. The year 1986 found Universal Studios releasing (not the best episodes) on poorly manufactured VHS tapes. These too went over poorly because of the crappy manufacturing involved. The year 1987 found Universal Studios not responding in any way to the success of  "Star Trek-The Next Generation" in syndication, via bringing the 1978 Battlestar Galactica" series back for at least a wrap-up television movie of some sort. September 1988 found Universal Studios not responding in any way to the 10th Anniversary of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series. The year 1992 found Universal Studios not responding in any way to the successes of "Deep Space Nine" and "Babylon 5" in syndication, via bringing back the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series for at least a wrap-up television movie of some sort for the series. The year 1995 found Universal Studios not responding in any way to the success of "Star Trek: Voyager" in syndication, via bringing back the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series for at least a wrap-up television movie of some sort for the series. September 1998 found Universal Studios not responding in any way to the 20th anniversary of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series.

The decade of the 2000s was when Universal Studios corporate hatred of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series officially became a publicly known spectacle of embarrassment for them. They re-engineered the series into Ronald D. Moore's steaming pile of donkey crap, and then tried to act like they were doing us a favor. When we didn't respond favorably to "GINO", Universal Studios hired a group of guerrilla style stealth marketers from the marking firm "Abraham & Harrison" to verbally attack the general public on the old http://www.scifi.com/galactica board for not liking "GINO", and for still liking the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series instead. A conflict still going on here and there in the year 2011. Universal Studios then steamrolled its way into the year 2003 by manufacturing an intentionally defective DVD set of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series. These defective DVD sets rolled off of the assembly lines with cracked discs sitting in their plastic trays, discs that froze during play mode, the episodes not really being digitally remastered at all, and the most shameful: The pilot episode being in the worst shape of all visually in comparison to the other episodes. Heavy grain, pops, and floaties in the episodes all greeted the fanbase of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series. September 2008 found Universal Studios not responding in any way to the 30th anniversary of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series.

Universal Studios knew that the fanbase did not want Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series to be made, yet they made the damn series anyway. Universal Studios executives and "Abraham & Harrison" employees argued with the general public every step of the way on the old http://www.scifi.com/galactica when "GINO" was in production. Basically their argument was..."The 1978 Battlestar Galactica" series sucks, "GINO" is God's gift to television, and you had damn well better see it that way."

Now, after "GINO" failed commercially, "Caprica" failed commercially, and "Blood & Chrome" failed commercially...Universal Studios has adopted the attitude of being a "holier than thou" corporation that bent over backwards every step of the way to try and please the fanbase of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series.
(So says Russell Sanders.)

At what point during the past 33 years, and at what point in the chronology above, did Universal Studios ever bend over backwards to try and please the fanbase of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series? When? I've been observing their toxic nonsense, adolescent behavior as a corporation for the past 33 years, and I haven't seen shit from them remotely resembling any attempts to please the fanbase of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series. What I have repeatedly seen from them, is intentional / deliberate corporate sabotage of not only the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series, but also the entire "Battlestar Galactica" copyright via the toxic crap Ronald D. Moore kept coming up with.

On one final note, Universal Studios would never give the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series a fair shake when exploring its potential viability in being brought back in a new production. After all, this is the same corporation "guilty as charged" in persecuting the hell out of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series for the past 33 years, and the "Galactica" copyright overall.