More than 20 years later, Kate Sackhoff is recounting the less than warm reception he received during Galactic BattlestarThe debut season.
The actress recently spoke out about being “booed” by San Diego. comic convention audiences when he made his first appearance at the fan convention with the science fiction channel reboot of the series in 2003.
“They had us in pavilion H and they booed me,” he recalls. The Joe Rogan Experience. “They booed me!”
Sackhoff noted: “The Internet didn’t exist yet, of course. It was brand new. You had to go to the Internet cafe and buy 30 minutes… So I went to an Internet cafe because someone said to me, ‘I guess they’re talking about the show on these message boards.’ And I thought, ‘What is the Internet?’ So I kept going down. I logged in and saw this thread, and just the hate I was getting in this thread!
“And then, you know, we went to Comic-Con and they booed me,” he continued. “I think it bothered me a little bit. I’d be lying if I said it didn’t bother me. But luckily there were enough people defending the show that I didn’t really pay attention to it.”
Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer, James Callis, Tahmoh Penikett, Kate Sackhoff, Mary McDonnell, Grace Park, Jamie Bamber, Michael Hogan and Aaron Douglas in ‘Battlestar Galactica’ (Art Streiber/Sci Fi/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Since Sackhoff was 23 at the time, he had the “blissful ignorance of youth,” but admitted the backlash would “probably destroy me” if it happened now.
“I didn’t think the show would last anyway, so it was like, whatever, it wasn’t a big deal, just a blip on the radar. I’m in Hall H, you know?” she admitted.
“Little by little he started to win over people,” Sackhoff added. “After that I went to conventions, the lines were longer and people were more supportive. People were like, ‘I didn’t want to like it and I love it.'”
Following the original Galactic BattlestarSci Fi, which aired from 1978 to 1980 on ABC, renewed the franchise with a 2-episode limited series in 2003, which spawned four more seasons from 2004 to 2009, as well as the 2010 spin-off. Caprica.
Although Sam Esmail That developing another rebooted series for Peacock Since 2019, Deadline reported in July 2024 that it was it doesn’t happen anymore with the serpentine and was being compared.