Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

[jian]

It's also available to purchase on Youtube, if you feel any better about giving Google your cash.

Now it’s free on YouTube with ads, so I’m watching it. Ira Steven Behr is really rocking that blue beard, and Avery Brooks’ natural speech pattern is pretty trippy.

I feel really sorry for Marc Alaimo (Dukat) saying that nobody gave him any positive feedback for the first three seasons or so even though he was knocking it out of the park every time.

 

[Riley]

I feel really sorry for Marc Alaimo (Dukat) saying that nobody gave him any positive feedback for the first three seasons or so even though he was knocking it out of the park every time.

That seems so strange. He was so wonderfully, casually ruthless for years.

I didn’t care for the messianic turn the writers did to him at the end, but that’s their fault, not his.

 

[jian]

Now watching the discussion about whether they could do Kira the same way - an unrepentant former terrorist and yet an unambiguously heroic protagonist - after 9/11. It was easier to do that, Behr and Visitor think, when terrorism was something that happened to other people and the French Resistance was an unambiguously heroic myth.

 

[Arilyn]

Watched the documentary couple weeks ago. It's really good and insightful. Everyone seemed to really care about the show.

 

[Distracted DM]

Now watching the discussion about whether they could do Kira the same way - an unrepentant former terrorist and yet an unambiguously heroic protagonist - after 9/11. It was easier to do that, Behr and Visitor think, when terrorism was something that happened to other people and the French Resistance was an unambiguously heroic myth.

I mean, it's still frequently referenced in stuff like Lower Decks, Shaxs fighting the ghosts of his past "but what will you do against all your victims? All the Cardassian warriors getting their revenge." "they weren't warriors, they were occupiers!" and "Fighting fascism was a full-time job!" ...but that's definitely not nearly as serious and in-depth as DS9's was.