Universal Studios is Experimenting With a New Concept in Merchandising

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http://www.bifbangpow.com/2011/12/by-your-command.html

New merchandise based upon the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series without a new movie to go along with it. They need to let us all know how that works out for them.

Does Anyone Even Care Anymore?

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"Blood & Chrome" has been one of those projects just begging to be put to rest once and for all. First it was planned to be a web series, then a television series, then back to a web series, to what now?

SyFy Channel's biggest problem is not knowing when to quit and put a project to rest. They should have cancelled Ronald D. Moore's low rated and flop "GINO" series long before the fourth season. They shouldn't have put "Caprica" on the air at all, and "Blood & Chrome" should have the plug pulled on it long before its intended air date.

The air date of this thing is projected to be a year from now. Why doesn't the SyFy Channel just put the whole project to rest once and for all?

The SyFy Channel Hit Rock Bottom Ages Ago In Terms of its Lack of Imagination

Drug addicts and alcoholics often hit rock bottom in terms of not being able to sink any lower from their self indulgent orgy of abusing their bodies and minds.

The SyFy Channel (and when it was still called Sci-Fi Channel) is exactly like that. They hit rock bottom ages ago in terms of not being able to sink any lower in its lack of imagination, its blatant hostility towards anything that is imaginative (the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series), and its corporate embrace of garbage television programming in general.

Much the same way drug addicts and alcoholics (sick people) fight for their right to remain sick, the SyFy Channel (and when it was still called Sci-Fi Channel) has fought for its right to remain sick (if you can call it a right) by broadcasting their weekly monster movies, Smackdown Wrestling, a cooking show, and anything else non-imagination related. It has been a never ending orgy of non-imagination at the SyFy Channel for years now. An orgy the SyFy Channel has fought long and hard to remain in via its relentless stealth marketing supplied to them by "Abraham & Harrison."

The SyFy Channel is owned by the same corporation that has created and put on the air the worst television program in the history of broadcasting..."The Maury Povich Show." No suprise there as to why the SyFy Channel is as bad as it is.

Is Destiny Beckoning Director Bryan Singer in Another Direction?

 

Director Bryan Singer has recently abandoned a "Battlestar Galactica" theatrical film for a third time. (The first time in 2001, the second time in 2009, and the third time in 2011.) If I were a career counselor, I would note that Bryan Singer seems to no longer have the energy to direct theatrical films, and is instead beginning to aim his fledgling self in the direction of the "made for television movie."

Did the "Battlestar Galactica" theatrical film (he announced his intentions to do in October 2011) scare him? Did the scope of such a production scare him away? Whatever the reasons, his full attention is now focused exclusively on "The Munsters" television movie for NBC-TV. The physical appearance of this situation looks like he abandoned a much more elaborate, epic in scope, and daunting project ("Battlestar Galactica")...for a much smaller, more intimate, easier to deal with, and less headache induced project ("The Munsters".)

Now, there is nothing wrong with this. There is nothing wrong with being a "television movie director." I'm not knocking it. Some of my favorite television movies were directed by Brian Levant (the live action Scooby Doo movies) or starred actress Gail O'Grady (I just love her to pieces.) But, maybe it's time for Bryan Singer to admit that this is the direction he would prefer to go in after abandoning the daunting "Battlestar Galactica" film for the easier to deal with "The Munsters" remake.

"ABC Family" and "Nickelodeon" are always making "television movies" for children. They primarily make television movies during the Halloween and Christmas seasons. I really believe that Bryan Singer's calling in life (and is better suited) to ultimately direct children's movies for both of these fine channels. Because when you think about it, after directing "The Munsters" for NBC-TV, it wouldn't be a career stretch for Bryan Singer at all to move on over to "ABC Family" and "Nickelodeon."

The television movie has a faster and tighter production schedule, a smaller budget, and would probably be better suited to handle Bryan Singer's ever wandering attention span and keep it in check because the television movie demands the immediate attention of directors right now, not the attention of theatrical directors nine months from now while a script is being written. Which seems to have been Bryan Singer's problem with "Battlestar Galactica."

Directing "The Munsters" For NBC-TV Will Not Be a Career Builder For Bryan Singer

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I finally figured it out. Directors like Bryan Singer have been setting their career prospects extremely low lately because the DVD market will sustain any "hunk of junk" directors like Bryan Singer choose to waste their filmmaking educations on. "The Munsters" will be one of those "quickie" television projects for Bryan Singer with the ultimate destination for such a project being...right next to the "Spongebob" and "Family Guy" DVDs in your local department stores such as "Wal-Mart" and "Target"...(or do you pronounce it..."Tar-jay?")

Bryan Singer is one of those directors of the "DVD Generation." Where television and certain movie projects are made at lightning speed for the specific purpose of eventually rotting indefinitely on DVD discs. Gone are the glory days of the great Richard Donner directing the magnificent "Superman-The Movie" and that film unto itself being a "global event" for all to enjoy. Bryan Singer is whipping up "fast food" junk for eventual DVD release at lightning speed.

Bryan Singer is limiting his employment opportunities by offering his services solely to NBC-Universal. The "ABC-Family Channel", and "Nickelodeon" are also...always looking for those "Cheap-o"..."leave your intelligence at the door" juvenile type movies such as "The Munsters." Movies that can be whipped up in nine months and broadcast three months later. Bryan Singer could also make a killing directing "Halloween" themed movies for both channels every October.

"Poetic Justice" Has Been Gradually Compensating Fans of The "1978 Battlestar Galactica" Series

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Those who have treated the "Battlestar Galactica" property poorly (primarily in the decade of the 2000s) are now having career difficulties and slipping even further into professional obscurity and oblivion.

Yes, fans of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series never got their revival movie of the series (and most likely never will), but something else has been happening which is suitable, substitute compensation on an intangible level.

Those involved in the deliberate trashing of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series, (primarily in the decade of the 2000s) have been seeing their careers taking an irreversible nose dive into oblivion.

Ronald D. Moore -

The year 2003 was supposed to have been the year that "Ronald D. Moore's shot at stardom had arrived." It was supposed to have been the year that Ronald D. Moore had emerged from the "Star Trek Staff Writer's Circle" of Rick Berman with a genius take on "Battlestar Galactica" that was supposed to propel Moore into the same stature as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

It didn't happen. The stealth marketing con game orchestrated by the Sci-Fi Channel (and implemented by "Abraham & Harrison") at the time kept Ronald D. Moore's name pumped up on "bulls**t steroids" as best it could and for as long as it could until Moore's take on "Galactica" might finally catch on with the public.

It didn't happen. Ronald D. Moore's sham take on "Battlestar Galactica" was a severe, strategic misfire and the public just didn't warm to it and embrace it. It also didn't help matters any that Ronald D. Moore along with Bonnie Hammer, David Eick, and the stealth marketing thugs at "Abraham & Harrison" were publicly trashing the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series in some deranged hope of pumping up Ronald D. Moore's ratings in such a deranged manner. "GINO" took a swift nosedive along with "Caprica", and Ronald D. Moore's sham take on "Battlestar Galactica" (really an unpleasant take on "Star Trek: Voyager") was soon history.

What is Ronald D. Moore doing now? Some ambiguous Science Fiction pilot involving homosexual characters. This after all of his post-"GINO" projects were rejected by....everyone.

1. A Science Fiction project with Tom Cruise.

2. A supernatural pilot for NBC-TV.

3. "Virtuosity"

4. "The Thing" remake script

Ronald D. Moore, who paid no respect whatsoever to the source material of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" or its fanbase (he quite frankly ridiculed both) at the time his "GINO" series was on the air, now finds literally every project he submits to anyone and everyone in Hollywood being rejected. Now that is "Poetic Justice."

Ronald D. Moore's Hollywood prospects have nose dived because he was never a hot property to begin with. His most fruitful days at the Sci-Fi Channel existed in the first place because as a would be hot commodity, he was being artificially sustained by the ruthless, on-line stealth marketing of the stealth marketing firm "Abraham & Harrison." 

Bryan Singer -

Bryan Singer has bailed out on directing a "Battlestar Galactica" feature film a total of three times now. In 2001, 2009, and 2011. His career seems to be set on an irreversible negative trajectory much the same way Ronald D. Moore's is. He periodically announces a truckload of new projects he is interested in and very few of them (if any) ever become reality. Now that is "Poetic Justice."

Bonnie Hammer -

Bonnie Hammer has done everything she can do to try and turn the SyFy Channel into a hot, money making "hip" commodity. Unfortunately, she has trashed the "Battlestar Galactica" property along the way with both public statements of dislike for the original series airing in 1978 and its fanbase. The result? Her SyFy Channel chugs along as a typical, underwhelming cable channel that is not appointment viewing by any means. Now that is "Poetic Justice."

Universal Studios -

Their continued hostility and lack of vision towards the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series, the property overall, and its fanbase has resulted in the property not being a spectacular money maker for the studio. Now that is "Poetic Justice."

The Status, Location, and Condition of "Blood & Chrome" is Anyone's Guess

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Although the "Blood & Chrome" pilot movie has been yet another one of those "Galactica in Name Only" gimmick projects of the SyFy Channel (right behind "GINO" and "Caprica") that no one in the mass market domain ever wanted or asked for (just like "GINO" and "Caprica"), it's still noteworthy to analyze the outrageousness of the ever spiraling genesis and mutation of this project.

Originally conceived as a web series, it went from that to a 2-hour pilot movie and back again to a web series. Its status right now is anyone's guess, but the fact remains that no mass market audience anywhere in the world has rolled out the red carpet waiting for "Blood & Chrome's" arrival, if it is ever seen at all.

I see "Blood & Chrome" as nothing more than an unfortunate, left over remnant of an ill-conceived and severely flawed conception of the "Battlestar Galactica" property compliments and courtesy of Ronald D. Moore and the SyFy Channel. The best for all concerned would be (including mass market audiences not looking forward to "Blood & Chrome") for this 2-hour pilot movie to remain in limbo never to be seen by anyone. In addition to never having a grasp on what "Battlestar Galactica" really is, Ronald D. Moore and SyFy Channel never had what it takes to appeal in general to mass market audiences. It takes original and inspired thinking, concepts for television series that are original and genuinely good ideas, and the ability to execute those ideas in vibrant and compelling manners that attract mass masket audiences. SyFy Channel and Ronald D. Moore have always lacked all of the above.

So I suggest to all of those concerned to keep "Blood & Chrome" in limbo forever, because nobody wants to see it. Nobody wants to see more of the same already sampled in "GINO" and "Caprica."