Ezri or Jadzia
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Curzon's portrayal could be due to the unusual way he and Odo "blended" with one another. We were getting a medley of personality, sort of similar to how the Trill operate themselves, and not truly just Curzon.
The character of Joran confused me, or maybe he was just written inconsistently. I totally get why he would want to kill someone to prevent Dax being taken away from him, since it would, you know, mean his death. But then he seemed to turn into this heartless serial killer. Which raises the question, was the serial killer Joran or Dax or a combination of the two? Just wondering.
I might go with Jadzia just because Ezri’s development was forced and rushed due to being last season.
That's what I was trying to get across last night. How did we go from someone who was pretty angry to serial killer. When we first meet him, he was more psychologically evil rather than outright evil. I wish we could have seen more of that side.
Jadzia was fun and entertaining and enjoyable. But I loved Ezri to bits. Ezri, no contest.
I'm not sure that's really fair to say: we never see the crimes of the Foundation being revealed to Jadzia, the probable anger that the revelations might arouse, or any personality problems that may have arose in the Dax personality when the Joran personality started to assert itself. Probably because the writers did not trust Farrell to modulate her performance, the storied skipped from Sisko learning about the coverup to the miracle cure the conveniently reintegrated Joran into Dax. There was a huge portion of the story that went un-examined. We aren't ever put in a position to see what Joran would be like as his personality emerged.
That's true. There was another episode, Field of Fire, that I actually felt was a more accurate portrayal of Joran (between the extemes) but it would be interesting if we actually saw the real Joran.
I wonder how a "lives of Dax" series would go down in this new age of Trek on CBSAA.
An anthology series, with different actors portraying Dax and Farrell narrating, would be cool.
Both.
Terry Farrell did some good stuff, but personally I felt she is a limited actress. She was also given a underdeveloped character, who became nothing more than a two-dimensional entity during season 4 and onward.
Ezri was a much more flawed and layered character, and Nicole de Boer a more talented actress I feel.
So, yeah, Ezri. I wasn't a big fan of how the first few DS9 novels made her a very inmature character at times, but looking back at her now, in the novels, I actually really enjoyed her journey of self-discovery.
Ezri was a much more flawed and layered character, and Nicole de Boer a more talented actress I feel.
So, yeah, Ezri. I wasn't a big fan of how the first few DS9 novels made her a very inmature character at times, but looking back at her now, in the novels, I actually really enjoyed her journey of self-discovery.
Hmmm. I see it.
Ezri. Don't tell my wife this, but I think I fell in love with Nicole de Boer the moment she first appears on-screen.
She reminded me of Yvonne Craig, aka Batgirl, one of my first TV crushes when I was a kid.
Also played the Ill fated Orion slave girl in TOS
Personally I think that every Ezri appearance before the final sequence of ten episodes was pretty embarrassing. Not that Jadzia didn't have embarrassing episodes too, but it wasn't ONLY bad episodes. There's a murderer on the station, they go to Ezri instead of Odo, and they go down the cheesiest path they could have chosen. Or, the thing with Garak.
How they used her after her forced introductions and various other episodes it didn't make sense for her to even be involved in makes it seem like she would have been a good character if the writers had more time to develop her more naturally. But as it was constantly forcing her into the story with weak premises, extreme cliche and just embarrassing logic made her a bad character.
Ezri: I see smiling faces in pictures.
Joran: You see, the killer must be a Vulcan!
Me: Oh my god...the writer must be a Pak'led!
How they used her after her forced introductions and various other episodes it didn't make sense for her to even be involved in makes it seem like she would have been a good character if the writers had more time to develop her more naturally. But as it was constantly forcing her into the story with weak premises, extreme cliche and just embarrassing logic made her a bad character.
Ezri: I see smiling faces in pictures.
Joran: You see, the killer must be a Vulcan!
Me: Oh my god...the writer must be a Pak'led!
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Also played the Ill fated Orion slave girl in TOS
The psychopathic Orion in "Whom Gods Destroy" not the dancers in "The Cage"/"Menagerie".
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