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Is DS9 worth binging?
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bingin DS9 2d-4th seasons fried me up fast. and i even skipped some episodes. i will get back to it eventually. the problem is when you watch an episode you dident like then you get de-motivated to continue. and who would have thought that it was the critically acclaimed
episode that made me stop watching. i absolutly hated this episode.
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I have to admit that if a viewer can be demotivated to continue after one episode they don't like then it kind of makes me wonder whether there are other factors involved or whether they just weren't really enjoying the series anyway.
I've taken pauses from my binges in the past, but if I was overall enjoying a show I always got back to it. No show has no weak episodes.
I kind of assumed the question basically meant just watching DS9 at a rate of 1-3 episodes a day. As others have noted, "binging" is a bit of an ambiguous term.
I usually will watch one episode of something per night, though I've been known to make exceptions if I got especially hooked. I just have too many other things to do with my time.
I usually will watch one episode of something per night, though I've been known to make exceptions if I got especially hooked. I just have too many other things to do with my time.
Binge-able or not, I cherry pick this series pretty intensively when watching it. Highs are pretty high, lows are pretty cringy/boring. I do the same thing with all the Berman-era Trek, TBH.
It's worth binging from season 3 in my opinion. The first two seasons are great but episodes are pretty much standalone. They don't have the hook or the background of the Dominion. But from season 3 onwards, things are happening and even if you have standalone episodes the stories and the atmosphere of those episodes are colored by what's going on with the Dominion.
This, plus one persons bad episode can be another's great one, Allamarain aside of course. But DS9 is arguably the most bingeworthy of all Star Trek series and like others have stated, all episodes add to the characters and the world in a way that made DS9 feel like a real place in a way Star Trek has failed to capture since the show ended.
It really is a great show and arguably the best written and acted overall. The first couple of seasons can feel a bit sluggish at times but the world building is always present and in some ways the station feels more 'lived in' than it does in later seasons.
Interesting on this. I was friends with (the recently late
) Sarah, Tony's partner. I did ask her about this, in that we were chatting at an overseas conference. She was pretty sure Tony had never auditioned for that, though she thought he may have for another Trek role. She phoned him while we were chatting and gave me the phone - he denied it totally but said had heard it before as a rumour.Being that DS9 remains my fave, I did wonder what it would have been like to be friends with Sarah (who I first met in 2006) if that casting had happened differently. But then a lot of wat brings me to DS9 is Avery Brooks' portrayal. The franchise would have lost a lot if we'd had a white Sisko, or a male Janeway for that matter.
I'm not sure I trust Tony's memory (no crack at him, happens to us all!) because the DS9 doc team had access to the audition tapes for (at least) him and Peter Capaldi. The tape came from Ira Steven Behr's personal collection.
Nick Brimble (i.e. Little John from Kevin Costner's "Robin Hood") as Sisko? That would have been surreal. I wish he'd at least shown up in a guest role or such at some point; I've never seen him in anything else.
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