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Written by James M. Tate / 8/20/2018 / No comments / adventure , battlestar galactica , dirk benedict , eighties , george lucas , glen a. larson , list , maren jensen , richard hatch , science-fiction , seventies , star wars

IMAGINE IF 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA' INFLUENCED 'STAR WARS'

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1) <u>ARMORED HENCHMEN IN THE SNOW</u>: The Cylon in the snow from an episode titled THE GUN AT ICE STATION ZEBRA, based on the classic war movie THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, which, along with THE DAMN BUSTERS, influenced the main plot of STAR WARS: blowing up a massive and powerful, highly destructive weapon...<br>
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There's something about both the chromed, primeval BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Cylon and the white-plated, deadly yet poor-aiming Stormtroopers, contrasting against the pure white snow, that looks very cool, slick and downright formidable, menacing. So as we stridently <i>Imperial March</i> forward with this bizarre and far-fetched premise that should be taken with a grain of Tatooine sand... that perhaps the house stole from the thief... let's continue with... <br>
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2) <u>ARMORED HENCHMEN IN THE FOREST</u>: In the Galactica episode THE YOUNG LORDS, Lt. Starbuck, a cocky pilot the likes of Han Solo, goes to a forest planet and is rescued from foliage-stomping Cylons by an unlikely band of heroic underdogs...<br>
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Not Ewoks but ragtag kids who help Starbuck overtake the Cylons using primal and makeshift techniques they learned from surviving in this element. Also like Ewoks, they blow a horn that echoes throughout the forest in almost the same exact manner and tone. So while Battlestar might have influenced Star Wars to bring the Stormtroopers to the snow, now it's another remote location...<br>
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Also, in RETURN OF THE JEDI, while Luke becomes the main element with his fight against his father, Darth Vader, Han Solo provides the b-story: to find the generator that turns off the New Death Star's shield. In this Battlestar episode, Starbuck and the YOUNG LORDS are also searching for a weakness among the Cylon fortress within a castle. And, so, like the armed, masked villains shown against the snow, here it's the surrounding green forest: nature abhorring a villainous vacuum that seems so much more suited to the fleshy likes of mankind. <br>
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3) <u>PYRAMID SCHEME:</u> For George Lucas, between EMPIRE and JEDI was RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK about archeologist Indiana Jones...<br>
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In one Galactica episode we see our usually space-set heroes literally down to earth on a planet much like Egypt, like in the yet to-be-created Indiana Jones world, and both RAIDERS and STAR WARS were based on pulp books, comics and serials: Jones epitomizes action and adventure with a confidence all his own, and yet Harrison Ford plays him just as daring, funny and vulnerable as Solo. But what's most telling about the Galactica episode (THE MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS) is what's inside a particular crypt, very much like the RAIDERS Staff of Ra: a device moving particular secret stones around is very familiar indeed.  <br>
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4) <u>SEXUALLY FRUSTRATED CORRIDOR SPAT</u>: In EMPIRE, when Han Solo and Princess Leia argue in an icy corridor of the Hoth planet Rebel outpost, and at one point reluctantly fall into each others arms, a similar thing occurs in the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA movie in which Lorne Green's Adama's pretty daughter begs Starbuck to help out instead of backing out...<br>
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Starbuck, played by Dirk Benedict... who would gain even wider television fame on THE A-TEAM as a handsome mercenary named Face... is the epitome of how Galactica borrowed heavily from the STAR WARS template: That said, Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo was the Luke Skywalker main character, yet was nothing close to the Solo/Starbuck similarities. And poor Hatch never got over the fact the writers seemed to prefer the cocky womanizing hotshot over his own stalwart, dependable hero... <br>
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"Why  do the girls always go for the bad guy or the naughty guy?" Hatch pondered in a <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/richard-hatch-battlestar-galactica.html">Cult Film Freak interview</a>. "I think 
 writers love to write for deliciously bad characters or flawed  
characters, and when a character is kind of the, you know, good guy,  
they’re not as interested."<br>
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And the same can be said for a sometimes thankless Mark Hamill. Despite being the masthead of a trilogy that's always been regarded as "From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker," Han wound up stealing the show. And yet, even with a price on his head, the rogue eventually succumbs to doing the right thing for the right people. So the point here is... no matter how far, far away you go... whether in the STAR WARS or BATTLESTAR GALACTICA universe... While men might rule the universe, women control it. And may the <i>feldercarb</i> be with you, always.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Novelizations tie in books were also an important part of both franchises, of course started by Star Wars by Alan Dean Foster</u></td></tr>
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IMAGINE IF 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA' INFLUENCED 'STAR WARS'

Stars Wars to Battlestar Years: 1977-1983 The original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA wasn't very original, snaking special effects and overall st...

RICHARD HATCH AS APOLLO: HERO FOR THE ZERO GENERATION

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RICHARD HATCH AS APOLLO: HERO FOR THE ZERO GENERATION

Richard Hatch headlining on the opening credits Alas to the forgotten, neglected and rejected Generation-X, who isn't lucky enough t...

RICK SPRINGFIELD, CYLON RAIDERS & THE LATE GLEN A. LARSON

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RICK SPRINGFIELD, CYLON RAIDERS & THE LATE GLEN A. LARSON

Created by Glen A. Larson Before Rick Springfield coveted Jessie’s Girl, his character Zac, along with Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo, ...

Written by James M. Tate / 5/06/2014 / No comments / battlestar galactica , dirk benedict , interview , lorne greene , richard hatch , robbie rist , science-fiction , seventies , TV

ORIGINAL BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SWIPED BY THE HAND OF GOD

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Richard Hatch, who played Captain Apollo on the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA television series, lasting only one year before a premature demise... morphing into another shortlived venture set thirty years later wherein Apollo was long gone... energetically shared on a Cult Film Freak interview that his personal favorite episode was THE HAND OF GOD…<br />
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“I just like the essence that there was a message from Earth. I loved being up in the Star Chamber… I loved the whole feeling of it. It wasn’t an Apollo episode necessarily, but I just liked the episode a lot, I thought it kind of left with this kind of mystical feeling of hope, of something greater out in the universe... I love the feeling of that.” So THE HAND OF GOD, a title that resurfaces in the 2004 reboot, is the final episode of the series, and reintroduced the Cylons, those silver-plated heavies that stalked the Galactica, the surviving vessel of a once-numbered host of immense battleships, and the return of the menacing Cylon Raiders, razor-like warships providing dogfights reminiscent of the original STAR WARS... Since cash ran out halfway through the BG series, the Cylons were too expensive, as were the outer space special effects… even though a lot of the same stock shots were being used again and again... In fact, child actor Robbie Rist, who would, only one year later, play Doctor Zee on the ill-fated follow-up GALACTICA 1980 – centering on an aged crew (sans Apollo) finding Earth thirty years later – described the dogfight repetition as: “One Cylon ship was always crossing my screen from left to right before it was hit by a human's guns. I guess making new FX shots was too expensive.”<br />
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Very wise observation, Cousin Oliver, and after the laser-blasting first half of the original show’s one and only season, the crew either dealt with in-house traitor Baltar or found other antagonists to grapple with including a group of dreary Nazi-like soldiers, or met with special guest stars such as Fred Astaire... and it just wasn't the same. <br />
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HAND OF GOD brings us back to the primal roots, centering on Apollo bringing Starbuck (the devil-may-care Han Solo type), and their two lady friends, up into The Star Chamber: an isolated section of the starship located at the very top/back, somewhere near the main thrusters.<br />
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For Starbuck, this is the perfect location to score, but Apollo has his own more tactical agenda...<br />
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At that observatory vantage point, the far regions of outer space can be viewed from a silvery cockpit chair gripped inside a domed structure, where a built-in monitor picks up random signals and/or distress calls, and in this particular case, The Galactica is receiving some kind of signal from what could be… Earth!<br />
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Turns out being a possible Cylon trap, and that’s where things return to the good old days. The plot has Starbuck and Apollo preparing for a do-or-die mission to the Cylon warship… To sneak inside and disable the shield activators so the Battlestar can, like the STAR WARS Death Star, blow up the impending vessel before it destroys them. "She's an orbiting killer, capable of destroying every ship we have," a grim Colonel Tigh warns. <br />
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A cool episode liken to classic WW2 <i>perilous mission </i>flicks, the only downside being the collection of side-characters giving long-winded farewells to the brave warriors. And finally, Apollo and Starbuck, once inside the Cylon War Ship, wind up climbing down a metallic ladder, quickly face off with a sole laser-blasting Cylon, and that’s pretty much that…<br />
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More of a rushed HIGH NOON showdown than a full-fledged action-packed battle, and yet it's nice to see the iconic Cylon in partial glory once again: Providing THE HAND OF GOD a neat farewell to a show that, to save money, had to get rid of the best thing it had going...<br />
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Making this episode not an intentional finale but an attempt to possibly venture into season two, promising Cylons would reign once again – a distress call that, like an eventual message sent from Earth after Starbuck and Apollo split for the celebration downstairs, was never heeded.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"You'll be okay, Starbuck, I see a large black man with a mohawk... Your TV future is set."</td></tr>
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ORIGINAL BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SWIPED BY THE HAND OF GOD

year: 1978 Richard Hatch, who played Captain Apollo on the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA television series, lasting only one year befo...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/29/2013 / No comments / battlestar galactica , fantasy , interview , richard hatch , science-fiction , seventies , zeroes

RICHARD HATCH ON THE OLD AND NEW BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Hatch</td></tr>
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<i>RICHARD HATCH is legendary in the BATTLESTAR GALCTICA universe, having starred in the original as “Captain Apollo” and a recurring role in the popular revision series, ultimately appearing in the same amount of episodes on either show...</i><br />
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<u><span style="background-color: white;">What’s your favorite episode of the original series?</span></u><br />
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"The  Hand Of God" because I just like the essence that there was a message  from Earth. I loved being up in the Star Chamber… I loved the whole  feeling of it. It wasn’t an Apollo episode necessarily, but I just liked  the episode a lot, I thought it kind of left with this kind of mystical  feeling of hope, of something greater out in the universe. I love the  feeling of that. And I thought the original two-hour movie was quite  extraordinary. I thought that was really quite well done.<br />
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<u><span style="background-color: white;">You’re  prominent in the episode “The Lost Warrior,” where Apollo’s forced to  land on a planet and helps a mother, her son, and their small town  against a lone Cylon and his human master…</span></u><br />
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The  “Shane” episode… That was a nice episode. It gave me a chance to do  something a little more: and obviously they followed on the footsteps of  dealing with his… Apollo had a son… I actually begged for them to leave  my son in Battlestar, at the beginning with Jane Seymour, because I  just felt like the Starbuck character, and all these other characters,  were getting more interesting things to do, and I thought I needed  something to hold onto, I felt, that would give my character an  opportunity for some dramatic possibilities.<br />
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And one of  the things I thought would open up at least an area of interest was to  have a son, which nobody else on the show had, so, I really wanted them  to keep Noah Hathaway in the show, even though I think they were talking  about exiting that character... I asked them to keep that character in.<br />
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And  the “Shane” episode, again, he deals with the mother and the son and  that whole relationship thing that, you know, that’s a good place for  Apollo to show himself a little bit, find out a little about who he is,  because he’s kind of like… Just like Adama… You know… He’s that father  that we all wished we had… and Loren Greene was the father we all wished  we had and Apollo was kind of a version of that, so I think that was  smart to do.<br />
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But I did think the original show needed  to get more into exploring the life and death challenges of surviving in  space, every day, and get into the community of Battlestar, rather than  just being on the ship and running down to this planet or that planet,  which is fine to do but I think the best shows in the beginning, that I  loved the most, are where we were trying to help people survive, and  dealing with the ups and downs of trying to rebuild communities, and  trying to deal with the logistics of surviving and all the stories that  would come from that.<br />
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I  wish we’d gone more into that, but again, too many cooks in the  kitchen, people who really didn’t love science fiction didn’t get the  sci-fi audience, and I think that it really made it difficult for those  wonderful writers back then to maybe write all the stories they wanted  to.<br />
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The  first couple of episodes didn’t have that problem because Apollo… You  know, listen… I know the show’s not just about Apollo, it’s about all  the characters, and everybody deserves their time in the sun, and  everybody deserves to have interesting stories and things to do – my  frustration was I felt, in the beginning, obviously because we’re having  the original catastrophic event happening and then obviously this is a  time when Captain Apollo can be most appreciated, why?<br />
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Because in a weird way, he’s kind of like the hero, <span style="font-style: italic;">the </span>hero,  the guy who comes and saves you, right? He’s the guy that, when all  else is failing, and everyone wants to give up, he’s the guy who comes  and doesn’t give up. And that’s very much who Apollo was… He’s the guy  who will lead everybody into danger, and inspire them to do the things  they didn’t think they could do.<br />
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And so those early  shows allowed the Apollo character to blossom a little bit, and you  could appreciate that character more in those original episodes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starbuck & Apollo</td></tr>
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Once  we got past that, and just kind of got into the every day living in  space and dealing with that, where it didn’t seem we were in such  danger, then I think slowly but surely the emphasis got switched and,  again, the story’s not about Apollo, I just felt that Apollo didn’t have  much to do.<br />
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And I had multiple lunches with the  writers; it wasn’t about being the star of a particular episode, as much  as it was having interesting themes to play and interesting dramatic  situations that would challenge the Apollo character and bring challenge  for everybody in the show.<br />
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<u><span style="background-color: white;">So did you feel they gave more screen time to “Starbuck” (Dirk Benedict) throughout the series?</span></u><br />
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Why  do the girls always go for the bad guy or the naughty guy? I think  writers love to write for deliciously bad characters or flawed  characters, and when a character is kind of the, you know, good guy,  they’re not as interested.<br />
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And obviously they did their  best [for Apollo] but it’s a little frustrating for the actor because  you want more conflict, and more edge, and more things to deal with.<br />
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But  unfortunately, the good guys, or good girls, are so overlooked and  unappreciated and it’s an interesting kind of thing that people are  always, in a sense… They want more of the bad thing, they’re always  attracted to the dark side, and I guess that’s where our culture is.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dirk Benedict</td></tr>
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The  Starbuck character is kind of the free-roaming bad boy, naughty boy,  and a little bit irresponsible, and the Apollo character is very  responsible, so they wanted to make the Apollo character a little less  responsible and make the Starbuck character a little more responsible.  Not take away who they were, but just to bring a little more balance  into the characters. So I think that was in their thinking – in their  plotting – of where they wanted to go.<br />
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<u><span style="background-color: white;">Onto  the new “Battlestar Galactica,” in which you played an important  character, "Tom Zarek"… What are some differences between the two shows?</span></u><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hatch in New Series</td></tr>
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To  create dramatic possibilities, you’ve got to throw these characters  that you’ve grown to love into very challenging circumstances, where  they get tested, and sometimes something happens between them, and then  they fight, they argue, they separate, and then they find out that they  did the wrong thing, or they wish they hadn’t, and they come back and  they become even better friends...<br />
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And that’s the whole story arc of  drama: that you create controversy, you throw gasoline on the fire  because you want to build the drama – so you’re always looking for  conflict.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain Apollo</td></tr>
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But  again, we [the original series] started out with the show developing  characters that won you over, that had great relationships with each  other, the father/son relationship, everything in there was a great  relationship between these characters.<br />
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The new show  kind of had every character being complex, very flawed, morally  conflicted, and it took a while to get into those characters and like  them because they seemed to have so many issues and problems. But  as the show went on, we got to see their humanity, we got to see a  deeper part of who these characters were, and then we slowly bonded to  these characters, and fell in love with these characters as well...<br />
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So in a  sense they started out making the characters very conflicted, and in  some cases unlikable, and then we grew to love them, and we grew to love  the relationships. Whereas the original show started  out with us loving these characters, they were not so flawed, and we  could bond with them immediately.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane Seymour & Richard</td></tr>
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But  then I think had the show gone on, we would have had to go the  direction of the new show and these characters would have to be put into  edgier circumstances, because every show seeking drama is going to find  conflict for their starring characters.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Hatch</td></tr>
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We  just started on one side, they started on the other side, and  ultimately we probably would have met in the middle.... <br />
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Although both  stories obviously had different mythology and backgrounds but, again, I  love both shows.<br />
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<u><span style="background-color: white;">Back  to the original… The game “Triad” was very interesting... How was it  playing this particular sport with your co-stars in those awesome  uniforms?</span></u><br />
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Well  we evolved that... People don’t realize that they had a basic thought or  idea of what the game might be, but when we got out on the court, we  kind of evolved how it would play...<br />
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There was a court, it looked like a  basketball court; it was a combination of football and basketball and  soccer and there was a whole thing of trying to get it through and we  figured out the logistics of it... We kind of played with it with the stunt guys and we evolved the way the whole game’s played, so that was fun to be part. And the spandex was a little painful, but other than that…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Hatch, Herb Jefferson and Dirk Benedict about to enter the Arena</td></tr>
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