Jack P
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Larson's credit was simply a legal concession made after he was initially denied credit for his original series teleplay that Moore's show borrowed from. He had no input whatsoever.
Richard Hatch was basically bought off with an appeal to his vanity. Hatch I would point out, went out of his way to badmouth a potential original series continuation project that Tom DeSanto was trying to do with a lot of bull about how it would not be true to the spirit of the original series. In fact (as we discovered when the DeSanto script became available) the potential project would have been a remarkably faithful continuation effort that most original series fans would have been pleased to see. Hatch's problem? It didn't give him a big role, but rather than be honest about that, he tried to pretend that he was looking out for the interests of the original series fanbase (Richard I will note has caused trouble with fans before; the original Galactica novels that had his name attached were not well-regarded by the fanbase for their shocking lack of regard for the basic chronology and continuity of the series).
What was often overlooked in the controversy was the fact that for much of the fanbase, Galactica was a series with an *interrupted storyline* and what fans had wanted to see for more than 25 years was a simple project that would offer closure. There was a sense that Ron Moore basically hijacked all the work the fanbase had done to keep interest in the property alive for so long so he could impose his own agenda of storytelling using someone else's creation and his actions subsequent to that (in which he would soon take to calling himself the *creator* of Battlestar Galactica. Just imagine if a Trek spinoff developer ever said "I created Star Trek") did little to bridge the gap that in all candor he bore most of the responsibility for.
Richard Hatch was basically bought off with an appeal to his vanity. Hatch I would point out, went out of his way to badmouth a potential original series continuation project that Tom DeSanto was trying to do with a lot of bull about how it would not be true to the spirit of the original series. In fact (as we discovered when the DeSanto script became available) the potential project would have been a remarkably faithful continuation effort that most original series fans would have been pleased to see. Hatch's problem? It didn't give him a big role, but rather than be honest about that, he tried to pretend that he was looking out for the interests of the original series fanbase (Richard I will note has caused trouble with fans before; the original Galactica novels that had his name attached were not well-regarded by the fanbase for their shocking lack of regard for the basic chronology and continuity of the series).
What was often overlooked in the controversy was the fact that for much of the fanbase, Galactica was a series with an *interrupted storyline* and what fans had wanted to see for more than 25 years was a simple project that would offer closure. There was a sense that Ron Moore basically hijacked all the work the fanbase had done to keep interest in the property alive for so long so he could impose his own agenda of storytelling using someone else's creation and his actions subsequent to that (in which he would soon take to calling himself the *creator* of Battlestar Galactica. Just imagine if a Trek spinoff developer ever said "I created Star Trek") did little to bridge the gap that in all candor he bore most of the responsibility for.