Thoughts on Re-Watching DS9
Five sentences for Corin. Basically, if you comment on my blog, I will write about whatever you want.
- DS9 is the best Trek on TV. I love TNG, but appreciating TNG is almost like going to an art museum, while watching all of DS9 is like playing an awesome RPG from start to finish.
- Corin always liked Ezri, because he had a crush on her. While I admit she's really hot (more so than I remember... How young was I when I watched this?), I still don't like her. It took the writers and Terry Farrell so long to develop Dax into a strong woman, that replacing her with the ditsy and equivocating Ezri was painful. I just wanted her to scarf down some gagh or play Tongo or something.
- One thing Corin is right about, however, is the ending. It's got that Ron Moore/Steve Spielberg problem of having too many endings, the story-within-a-story bracketing. The B&W montage scenes, while touching, are a bit indulgent. Your series finale shouldn't be an elegy, it should go out with a bang. And yes, when you say "the Emissary's task is at hand," we as the audience expect a little more than pushing Dukat off a cliff.
- Probaby the high point of the series is the 6-7 episode arc at the beginning of Season 6. I love that not being on the station requires them to tell all these different kinds of stories and challenges our characters in totally new ways.
- While I love Sisko and admire Avery Brooks, to me the real star of the series is Kira. She's incredibly strong, but also very vulnerable and approachable. Nana Visitor brings a lot of femininity and softness to the role, which makes her all the more interesting as a hard-as-nails terrorist and religious traditionalist. Kira's conflicts are always the most interesting conflicts and she always deals with them in unexpected ways. My favorite episodes are almost all Kira episodes.
We're almost running up against the 400-word limit. Guess Corin really got me talking about something I can go on about...
