Meme taken from rozk

[selenak]

A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Golden Girls has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently

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[watervole]

Some good choices there. I would love to have seen Blake's full 4th season development. THe really scary thing about 'Power' is to realise that Paul Darrow thought it was wonderful - this may help to explain 'Man of Iron'...

I've never dared watch the second season of Carnivale. The first was just so wonderful and I've heard that the second is a real let down after that. Should I watch it for completeness's sake, or should I retain the first season in my mind and just imagine after that?

Carnivale

[selenak]

No, don't watch. You really don't want to know, and anything you imagine will be better.

*is still resentful*

[londonkds]

Agree with you on why Harvest of Kairos is worse than Power because of its lousy characterisation of the regulars. Your discussion of this, however, makes me wonder if the peculiar tendency of some B7 reviewers to claim that the Steed episodes are actually parodies of sexism is to avoid acknowledging that Power, even if taken textually and unironically, is still in character for Avon.

[selenak]

Given the sheer amount of fanfic and meta I've read on why Avon didn't mean to kill Vila in Orbit and actually knew where Vila was hiding the entire time, or why Blake's death is solely Blake's fault (there are a lot of "I'm so sorry I made you shoot me!" stories - mind you, I think it's partly Blake's fault, but mostly dear Kerr's), I think that's entirely possible.

[lizblackdog]

...or give him Damar's subsequent storyline.

oh, yes yes yes yes! My brain is on fire just thinking of him doing that. Oh yes!

[selenak]

Can you imagine him, Kira and Garak stuck with each other...?

[lizblackdog]

*fangirly whimper*

[mahala]

Not because I dislike Sheridan, which I don't, but because I think his inner development ends there

Thank you! I thought I was the only one.

[selenak]

Definitely not. hobsonphile and deborah_judge agree with me there, too, I think...

[artaxastra]

The whole Evil!Dukat plotline could just vanish. It really weakened the character in my opinion and made hash of the interesting ambiguities that they had already brought up. You just have to wonder what in the world they were thinking. As I recall (don't watch those episodes too often!) it was possessed by Pah-Wraiths?

[selenak]

A bit more complicated than that (but not better). The turning point was the episode in later season 6 in which Dukat, on his way to a trial, crash landed with Sisko on a planet, spent a lot of time arguing with non-existent people about his past (i.e. was crazy) and Sisko, obviously intended to be the authorial voice, decided that Dukat wasn't shades of grey but really really evil.

Then, in the season 6 finale Dukat who had found out about the Pagh Wraiths in the meantime did become posessed by them, yes, and from that point it was Good Emissary versus Evil Emissary. As to what they were thinking: I strongly suspect one main reason was so Sisko would have someone to physically fight with in the series finale. The Pagh Wraiths themselves wouldn't do, and the Dominion War wasn't ended by Sisko, but by Odo on the one hand and the Cardassian resistance on the other, so they needed to give Sisko something heroic to do. Resulting in a scene that came close to rivalling the three middle aged men punch it out in Generations for stupidity.

[artaxastra]

I think it was a real mistake to have Dukat be crazy. I just think that feeds the whole "bad things are done by crazy people who are not like us" not by rational men for rational reasons. It's a cop out.

And I see what you mean about the last episode.