Why Didn't People Like Jadzia Dax?
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What, being on a station with Worf (and Bashir and Quark for that matter) wasn't enough?
Also, slightly off-topic, but I still wish Ezri and Jake had hooked up...
My main problem with Jadzia is that most of the time, she was a prettier Klingon rather than a Trill - every time she got the spotlight it was yet another dull 'Klingon honor' episode. Nothing about who she was, nothing about the immense variety of her many lifetimes, just on and on with stories based on in a past life having known Klingons, who now show up every few weeks to ask her to come bat-lething with them again.
I didn't hate the character, but I did feel she was terribly mis-used. And I far prefer Ezri, and wish we'd gotten Ezri for at least half the run of the show, instead of just the last season.
I didn't hate the character, but I did feel she was terribly mis-used. And I far prefer Ezri, and wish we'd gotten Ezri for at least half the run of the show, instead of just the last season.
The more I watch the series, the more I think that's the reason I'm starting to not like Jadzia. Granted, I liked her, but we really didn't get to know "her." Oh yeah some parts came here and there (How she had a relationship with Curzon and she was rejected at first) but once Worf came, she almost became a woman Klingon, leaving the trill behind. It would have been nice to learn more about her as an individual, like what her full name was, if she had family, stuff like that. One of the things I liked about ezri was we got to know Ezri as an individual, and that led to some wasted opportunities for the previous host. Again, I liked both, but the way Jadzia was written, it might have been the weakest of the overall cast, except for maybe Jake.
I like Jadzia. Her character, with its echos of reincarnation, is very interesting. More could have been done with Jadzia, but the writers settled for a pedestrian treatment of the character. I don't blame the actress for the writers' lack of imagination.
But at the same time, we already knew Dax's previous lives by the time Ezri came along. She was able to develop more as an individual since the audience did not need to rehash the past about Dax's previous lives. She just picked up where Jadzia left off.
Jadzia carried the weight of introducing us not only to herself, but to Dax and almost everything we know about trills in general. This is quite a burden for one character to play.
And in 7 years, we learned more about Ezri in one than we did with Jadzia in 6. I know Jadzia had to carry the wait of also introducing the symbiont, and I think that was the best part of her character, but it would have been nice in the later years to learn more about her. Actually now that I think about it, I think we found out more about Curzon than we did Jadzia, and Curzon wasn't even in the series. That's weak writing I think.
What'd ya mean? I loved Jadzia Dax. I forgave her for Meridian and my love only grew!
If you feel we found out too little about Jadzia and her history, that has nothing to do with one's assessment of the character herself. That's a criticism of the writers. I thought this thread is about why people do or don't find the character likable, not about whether they feel the character was suffiently explored in terms of background and history by the writers. I figured it's more about how she was (behaviour, personality, attitude) not who she was (backstory, nature).
See? Now that's a legitimate criticism.
Obviously I don't think of her that way, but I can see where the person who posted it is coming from. Even I cringed a little in that episode where she and Worf are walking back from training in the holosuite and she starts saying something like, "I'm not a [whatever Worf called her], I'm a beautiful woman who [blah blah blah]". I mean I adore Jadzia, but she could have been a little more modest. 
I think that Jadzia was down right sexy(I found Ezri to much of a Pixi) She was curvaus was confident in her own skin and was like a intelligent and as a Trill I always thought that Jadzia not DAX was unconfident very demur but Dax made her more confident and bought out Jadzia sexuallity and she was brilliant. We are still doubled sociaty where men can persue women and get away with it but if a women does the same She dammned to high heaven. I am sure by the 24th Century the men and women are equals and are alble to live there live without being judged.
Who wouldn't be a bit smug after all those lifetimes?
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