DS9+17: 108: Dax
First off, I just wanted to say how amused I am that I am (bothering to) blogviewramble about a TV show almost 2 decades old. I suppose it’s even more amusing (to me! I don’t care what you do in your spare time. Unless it’s sick and wrong then you should probably stop and turn yourself in. Go ahead, I’ll wait. *Whew* Glad that freak is gone!) that I’m undertaking a series-engrossment of this size. Because, this is like, more TV in the last two weeks than I’ve watched in the last year. I know, I know, it’s not really “TV” because I don’t have to sit through the bullshit commercials/etc., but… it feels like what TV should be, you know? (And what TV almost is with TIVO/DVR).
Quality+timing-bullshit = profit!
So, onward and into the Daxness
- Morn carries a barrel in the background. Fuck but that guy is crazy.
- Quark and Odo have another moment not possible to undercut with homoerotic tension because Odo is not male…
- Kira does a good job of looking pixie-ishly tomboyish.
- Godhawtdamn doctor, can you stop with the lechery? Oh wait, your lechery almost/kindof/yeahitidid save the day this time. O….K. Carry on then.
- Instead of trying to force O’Brien into this plot, they just wrote him out entirely on a trip to Earth. Smart!
- Dax gets the final closing/knowing smile (2 in a row!).
This was one of the better episodes so far, I think. I mean it was a pretty standard “honorable guy does the honorable thing and protects the memory of his douchey friend”, but the added angle of the Trilliness of Dax and the continuing examination of Sisko and Dax’s old vs. new relationship made it good TV.
Andy my friend, I am sorry for the shameless thread jack, but I’m considering offering my own itty-bitty alternative to TNC’s open thread, and I wanted to a) let you know, b) let anyone who follows you know, c) elicit your thoughts on the matter.
If you have thoughts on the matter, here’s the post in which I introduce the notion: http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/tnc-alterna-open-thread/
PS I am embarrassingly uninformed on all things DS9. Please forgive me. I was in another country.
Good thing I had a random urge to sift through 13 pages of spam posts!
And good excuse for not watching DS9. Wish I had that one.
I hope you saw that I fished your comments out over at my place, too! It’s like our cyber selves weren’t speaking to each other, but had failed to tell us about it in meat world. Why on earth did WordPress spam you? It’s a mystery. Much like the Trinity.
WordPress, she is a harsh mistress. Or, my digital karma may just be in the suckhouse :P.
[edit: I did see the fished comments at some point!]