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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9723860" data-attributes="member: 78087">Going back and watching a few earlier episodes before plunging back into the latter half of season 7. So yesterday we watched The Visitor and Second Skin.The Visitor held up very well and, as noted above, highlights Jake’s core character issues and deftly turns them into an excellent science fiction tragedy. Tony Todd was brilliant. My wife found this episode incredibly sad, because of what it says about parent-child relationships as you get older, and how you find out how much you emotionally depended on your parents when they die, as well as the control (benign or not) that parents often feel they have to exert on their children.(By the way, Melanie is definitely getting a lot of latinum for those manuscripts.)Second Skin is a much more conventional episode but very well executed. It has unavoidable parallels with Inquisition, 3 seasons later, but Nerys’ emotional reaction - her devastation at the possibility that she is in fact a Cardassian spy, because she’s honest enough with herself to know it’s possible, as well as her genuine compassion for and connection to Ghemor - really seals the deal. It’s also got parallels with Duet, back in Season 1.</blockquote>