The Rest of DS9 Season Six

[meddow]

I covered in my last post the first six episodes of season six. So this post season really spans from Kira and Odo's reconciliation being disappointing to Jadzia's death being disappointing. But overall, I'd say this is a stronger season that even season five.

I mentioned in my first post about DS9, I watched In the Pale Moonlight and Far Beyond

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[selenak]

The Kira/Odo closet conversation was a terrible, terrible cop out and truly disappointing after the brilliance of their falling out.

As you know, my reaction precisely, even after all these years. Boo, hiss. Also why I have problems with K/O in this particular season. If we had gotten them reconciling over several episodes via a subplot, I'd have been all for it. As it is, we basically go from Odo damn near handing over the Alpha Quadrant to Kira hooking up with him because he can sing without a glitch. In addition to everything else, it makes her look like a total hypocrite - why doesn't ODO get any of the scorn her mother gets, hm? Meru was in a far worse situation than Odo ever was. Anyway, next season K/O are love, so I'm fine with them there.

Waltz: err. The episode itself is captivating. But the conclusion - Sisko's "some people are just plain evil" traumatized me for life. Ever since, I'm referring to the fear of three dimensional characters ending up as one dimensionally evil as "X or Y doing a Dukat". From this point

[meddow]

why doesn't ODO get any of the scorn her mother gets, hm?

Thinking about with Wrongs Darker in mind, I'm not sure if there could be any way to get them together without some hand waving by the writers. Kira is so very unforgiving. They may have actually written themselves into a hole a bit with that one.

But the conclusion - Sisko's "some people are just plain evil" traumatized me for life.I forgot about that bit. Possibly my brain just decided it didn't want to remember it. I'm not all that happy about Sisko vs Dukat turning a good vs. evil. I'm not all that happy with it being Sisko vs. Dukat either, not when there's so many other characters with very personal reasons for wanting to seek revenge on Dukat and have had more interesting dynamics with him through the series. Kira, Garak, and Damar, I think all have more pressing claims to Dukat than Sisko. And, well, while the show acknowledges the Sisko is an outsider and even runs with it being on of the reasons Kai Winn resents him, it doesn't stop it from being another repeat of

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[selenak]

Thinking about with Wrongs Darker in mind, I'm not sure if there could be any way to get them together without some hand waving by the writers. Kira is so very unforgiving. They may have actually written themselves into a hole a bit with that one. They did, but I still think a subplot would have sold me more on the handwaving. As it is, to quote from an older post of mine on the subject: As she tells Odo at the start of season 6, she believes (believed) in the saying "if you're not fighting them, you're helping them". So, seeing her mother not knifing Dukat at the first chance Meru gets (which presumably would have resulted in Meru getting executed, and her family as well), or talking about how much she hates Dukat the minute Dukat is out of earshot but seeing with her own eyes that Meru showed signs of actually being fond of Dukat was too much to take. "It's not that you share his bed, but that you like sharing it!" Nerys screams at Meru

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[selenak]

it doesn't stop it from being another repeat of that paternalistic outsider-joins-the-native-people-and-becomes-their-leader/god plotline.

Recently, I wrote an essay about that. And yes, word on the dynamics between Kira, Garak and Damar on the one and Dukat on the other hand being way more interesting than Sisko versus Dukat. Don't get me started on how the Dukat/Sisko fisticuffs in the show finale are the lamest thing since Kirk and Picard went mano a mano with Soren in Generations. (Doesn't mean the DS9 finale in general isn't good, just not the Sisko versus Dukat part of it. I rather suspect it was to give Sisko something to do, because otherwise all the important stuff in the finale is done by Kira and Odo.) An interesting essay about Dukat is this one, which stirred up some considerable controversy. (I agree with parts and disagree with others, but I think it's eminently readable, and not just because it was written for me. *g