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Miguel Ferrer Talks The Search for Spock and Battlestar Galactica

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By GustavoLeao / 12:53, 7 February 2008 / General Star Trek

The latest issue of SFX Magazine, out in the UK, features an interview with Bionic Woman actor Miguel Ferrer, who plays Jonas Bledsoe, the industrialist who owns the technology that reconfigures Jaime Sommers into the new Bionic Woman. Here are few excerpts from the interview. 

The actor remembers his first science-fiction role, when he played the original first officer of the U.S.S. Excelsior in Star Trek III The Search for Spock.

"Star Trek III The Search for Spock" he laughs "It was such a thrill to do that, because I was such a fan of the show when I was a kid. I got to put on a Star Trek uniform. I was just amazing."

A science fiction fan himself, Ferrer said that he decided to join the Bionic Woman cast because of producer David Eick. "I got a call from my agent. He said 'There is this thing they are doing called Bionic Woman' I said 'Stop. It sounds horrendous. No. Forget it. I've just come off of six years of Crossing Jordan. I'm not doing stupid Bionic Woman'. He said 'No, no, no, It's not what you think it is. It's not silly. It's dark. It's nasty. It's by David Eick, the same guy who revamped Battlestar Galactica. He is the executive producer'.

"I don't know if you've watched any of those shows, " says Ferrer of Galactica "but it's phenomenal TV taken from a pretty silly franchise. So I said, 'Well, let's look at it' I read it and I thought it was terrific, and I signed on."

To read the full article, get the latest issue of SFX Magazine at your local newsstand.



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By: sb2004 (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:40:30 on Feb 08, 2008

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Why is everyone in the media so intent on calling the original BW and BSG silly and/or camp? If they were they wouldn't have been popular enough to remake/retell/etc.

I can't speak for Ferrer, but there seems to be a mindset with a lot of people today that anything made before about 1981 is automatically bad. It's camp, it;s kitschy, it's ireelevant. And as a result when remakes or revivals of these productions come along, they're approached from this misguided point of view.

Sometimes camping it up is justified, as with Dukes of Hazzard, but often it's not justified, as with I Spy.

People invented the phrase "raping my childhood" to describe what Lucas did with his Star Wars films, but I also apply this to people who think that every show I grew up with was shit. I'm currently watching the first season of The Six Million Dollar Man, and it's pretty clear people who write that off have never bothered to watch the original pilot film for that show, or read Martin Caidin's Cyborg novel (a book that the new Bionic Woman comes very close to following in spirit).

All I can say is these shows are in good company. In the last few years I have heard the "old=bad" argument made for shows like All in the Family and MASH as well... AND, I am hearing it now from people who support the revision of Star Trek TOS with new CG so the next generation of TV viewers will never know what the show looked it when it was first broadcast. And I'm hearing it from people who likewise don't want Trek 11 to look like TOS because TOS looked bad. And those are words I've heard many times in the last few months.

All I can say is I hope the people bad-mouthing old TV and movies today remember these discussions in 10-20 years when Buffy, Firefly, Stargate, Torchwood, the new Doctor Who, Heroes, Lost, Alias .... all these shows start getting dismissed as campy and kitschy and irrelevant.

Al

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