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Observing Ronald D. Moore's production, it is painfully evident that all risk was removed from this production since the very beginning. Risk as in IMAGINATION. Ronald D. Moore's television production was conceived, produced, and written with the creative wing of Hollywood thousands of miles away from it. This is a production by and for the "Metro-Sexual Technocrats" in Hollywood. Visually and thematically, Ronald D. Moore's production is indistinguishable from every other contemporary drama on television today. Moore threw together a version of the "West Wing", or "Boston Public." The gimmick here is, Science Fiction is being used as sparse window dressing, instead of meaty content. Ronald D. Moore is yet another product of "Anti-Imaginative Hollywood", where reality shows pass (like kidney stones) as entertainment, where Ronald D. Moore's cast members dressed as present day commuters going to their jobs, are supposed to be futuristic spacemen in a galaxy that supposedly never heard of Earth.
Ronald D. Moore SWIPED the "Battlestar Galactica" brand name, but wasn't up to the challenge of FACING the visual and thematic consequences the "Battlestar Galactica" brand name carries. Indeed, any production called "Battlestar Galactica" is expected to recreate (verbatim) the production and art direction of John E. Chilberg II, John Dykstra's visual effects, Joe Johnston's and Grant McCune's spacecraft designs, Stu Phillips' music, and Jean Pierre-Dorleac's costumes. Ronald D. Moore's production has proven that SWIPING the "Battlestar Galactica" brand name wasn't enough. Of course, try explaining this to Ronald D. Moore and the "Metro-Sexual Technocrats" who control his purse strings, and the lot of them will run back to their statistical data and ratings sheets completely overlooking WHERE THEY WENT WRONG. Ronald D. Moore and company missed the point entirely, to such a severe degree that a complete change of careers is justified for every one of them.
What's wrong with Ronald D. Moore's production, and the poor state of Hollywood it represents, can be traced to the people making decisions in Hollywood right now, BAD DECISIONS. Hollywood in the 1960's and earlier benefitted from decision makers and creative artists who had a solid background in theater and the arts. Thus, you had the imagination explosion in television in the 1950's and 1960's. Fresh, good ideas being brought to the table were the norm. If you didn't have a good idea for a television program, you didn't get on the air. (An era in broadcasting that would have rightfully DISPOSED of Ronald D. Moore quickly and efficiently.)
The twentysomething decision makers in Hollywood nowadays, instead of having a background in theater and the arts, are mathematic majors who grew up watching the syndicated reruns of 1960's and 1970's television programs. Instead of having any sort of imagination, these CRETINS combine their math knowledge (read: bullshit marketing) with endlessly remaking 1960's and 1970's television shows to try and cover up their own inabilities in thinking up original ideas. Hollywood is in the worst shape it has ever been in creatively, and until Ronald D. Moore and his cretinous colleagues are shown the door, these problems in Hollywood will continue.
Ronald D. Moore's abilities as a scriptwriter are laughable at best. He never ventures beyond "the formula", "the cliche", the "tried & true", the "WORN OUT." Whether it be through utter laziness or writing within the mandated requirements of "Anti-Imaginative Hollywood", Ronald D. Moore has brought nothing new to television viewers that they haven's seen thousands of times before. Ronald D. Moore's first solo producing and writing assignment was blown to utter hell by Ronald D. Moore himself. This was a HACK JOB for Ronald d. Moore. A rushed job, a careless job, a thoughtless job. Ronald D. Moore and his cronies invested so much time in fighting for this job, they failed to see beyond the horizon as to what the consequences would be for holding down such a job. Of all the genres in media, it is absolutely mandated that Science Fiction carry the most ORIGINAL IDEAS and FRESH FORMATS. In this area, Ronald D. Moore and his production crew FAILED MISERABLY. Putting it bluntly, Ronald D. Moore and his crew are ILL-SUITED to be dealing with the demands of Science Fiction television. The UNWILLINGNESS and INABILITY to explore original ideas is Ronald D. Moore's GREATEST CRIME. Ronald D. Moore and his crew would be better suited for "Second Unit Duties" on a show like "West Wing", or "Boston Public", WHERE NO IMAGINATION IS REQUIRED. As a work force on a major crew, Ronald D. Moore and company are running around like circus clowns under a big top not knowing what to do.
Standards have been lowered in Hollywood for producing television programming nowadays, in order to adjust and acclimate to the twentysomething's running Hollywood nowadays WHO HAVE NO IMAGINATION. Would television have been better off without Ronald D. Moore's production? Yes. Mainly because we the viewers HAVE ALREADY SEEN "Star Trek", "West Wing", "Boston "Public", "Aliens", "Species", "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers", "The Thing", "Space: Above & Beyond", and "Star Wars." We don't need to see this SHIT again when Ronald D. Moore puts it into his "Word Processing Blender" and craps it out of his rear end.
Entertainment runs in cycles in Hollywood, and one can only hope that the presence of Ronald D. Moore in television is just another "Pathetic Fad" that Hollywood is going through right now, that will disappear as quickly as it appeared. As for Ronald D. Moore himself, he has proven that he is not up to the challenge of reinventing televised Science Fiction, or producing anything with "Battlestar Galactica" in the title. 
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