She was truly awful but lacked the screen time and development of the other bad people in the show. Still for being a villain in a single episode, she left a legacy for sure.
How High Would You Rank Alixus from Paradise
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I never thought about it before, and I don't know that this was in the writers' or producers' minds at all, but it reminds me of the Amish.
No way was she a hippie. She was way too authoritarian to be a hippy.
Peace and love!
A little bit, but the Amish let people leave if they wish, and their young are encouraged to join the outside world for a few years from about age 17 until they marry. Then they can commit to being Amish permanently knowing that the outside is like.
Arguably, hippies were generally more invested in the critiques of western culture and capitalism. Anti-authoritarianism was common among many, others were allied themselves to movements that clearly were not, such as movements stylized along the lines of Bolshevism. Why was it that John Lennon had the say "count me out" or Peter Townsend warn us that the new leaders are "same as the old boss?" Indeed, wasn't Alixus the second take on the cult leader of Hippies after "Way to Eden?"
Now, I wouldn't say that the episode is a critique of hippie counterculture movements. However, Alixus and her followers seem modeled on the kind of people who were coming out of cults in the 80s and 90s, especially the survivors of Jonestown.
hmmmm.....slightly left of it I think?
...hard to say really as insanity levels are igoverened by at least a 7-dimensional hypercube.
Certainly higher than this standard:
I say just leave her and her kid on an uncivilized and untamed planet by themselves, far from anyone else. Give them what they want and let them choke on it. And talk some sense into her former minions... if they want to live there, well and good. But I think they could be convinced to take a few modern necessities (like a well stocked medical kit).
Including a well stocked complete library of Alixus’ complete written works that they can eat…
Like the ending of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.
That occured to me. I actually use that book's ending as a rebuttal to the argument that people need military assault weapons to stand up to a tyrannical government. The last fight scene shows that symmetric warfare again any modern military is impossible.
But in any case, I'd give the two prisoners warm clothes, blankets, and a few tools. This is punishment, not stylized execution.
that’s pretty much all they wanted in the first place. Their crime was forcing other people to live like that. Granted, those people ended up liking that type of lifestyle, but it was rotten to force them into it in the first place.
or…
Flame the Dark True Salt… WAY LINK COMPLETE! Simple Hesitation…
Perhaps they can have their own spinoff called ALIXUS' ISLAND. I even have a theme song ready for it...
(to the tune of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND)
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a hateful trip
That started from a space port
Aboard a starship.
Dukat was a narcissistic man
Kai Winn loved power for sure
Five villains set sail that day
For a 7 season tour, a 7 season tour.
Outer space was getting rough,
Their tiny ship was tossed,
Because of Alixus' anti-tech device
These villains are so lost, these villains are so lost.
The ship set down on the shore of this uncharted desert moon
With Alixus
And Weyoun, too,
Gul Dukat and his ego,
Female Changeling
Kai Winn and her power grab,
Here on Alixus' Isle!
Sometimes the worst thing you can do to someone is to give them exactly what they want.
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