Oh yeah, I forgot about that. The opening of Return of the Jedi feels like I'm watching a completely different movie. No wonder why is considered the weakest of the original trilogy.Why did they even bother to introduce Jabba in Return of the Jedi ? Or Wicket? Or Ackbar? They should have focused their remaining time on the previously established characters.
Ezri was not just an edition that came later, but came in the last season, and being younger than the rest of the cast, Ezri stood out for her age. Cousins Oliver tend to be fresh faced, energetic, and naive, in contrast to the original characters, who are long in the tooth, perhaps cynical, and well-defined.
I like how you're trying to avoid pointing out that Olivers are (almost exclusively?) minors, presumably because that rules out Ezri.
Funnily enough, the Cousin Oliver that showed up on Married...With Children was named Seven. The show had the good sense to dump the kid and almost never refer to him again.
The main thing with the Trill was to explore the reaction and coping of the main characters to their friend or lover's death and them reappearing in changed form. Beverly Crusher first and Sisko later, but in DS9's case they dropped the "Old Man Dax" thing as soon as it became repetitive and was going nowhere anyway.
I'm not trying to avoid anything. I'm merely pointing to a phenomenon of a typical last season character introduction. I'll grant that they tend to be kids. That said, a quick search suggests that there are a number of people who have categorized Ezri as a Cousin Oliver, even on this website.
It's really a common trope, no? The psychiatrist who is always examining himself?
I one hundred percent agree with you. She's not a bad character by any means, there's a lot of interesting drama, but she came to do too little, too late, all at a cost of sacrificing screentime of the main cast.
Not that bad actually.
Yup.
"You see? We're nothing like you. We're better." -- Quark, son of Keldar.
