A Continuation Would Have Been As Good Says Hatch
Source SciFi Pulse
7 April 2006
In a recent interview for Dreamwatch Magazine Richard Hatch talked at some length about how he continues to feel that a continuation would have been just as successful as the re-imagining.
“I don’t think a continuation would have been any less successful than a re-imagining,” he stated firmly. “A continuation would have evolved the original show: it would have updated the Cylons, brought new characters in and gone into equally provocative areas. We could have had Eddie Olmos as the Commander, Mary as President, Jamie [Bamber] as Apollo’s son, and Katee [Sackhoff] as Starbucks Daughter. And we would have loved to have brought Ron Moore onboard too.”
“A continuation would have had the best of both worlds – it would have had the values and positives of the old show but would have updated them for today. It also wouldn’t have had the problems the new show had in the beginning, when fans of the original felt upset and disappointed.”
Hatch who long championed a continuation of the original series continues to support and play a recurring role in the re-imagining and the actor revealed something that he would love to do as Zarek.
“I do have a secret fantasy that at some point we’ll see Zarek hop into a Viper,” he reveals, in a nod to his former life as the original Apollo. “Maybe we could have a space battle between the two Apollos? That would be a really fun moment.”
You can read more of this interview with Richard Hatch in the new issue of Dreamwatch Magazine out now throughout the UK.
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