(Figures it would be a thread like this to bring me back after all this time. Good to be back, at any rate.
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This is good news! Any new novel on Ezri Dax is good for me.
For the most part, I'm with
Mage on how Ezri has been handled. The DS9 Relaunch gave her some decidedly unlikable attributes--which would've been okay (considering the early explanation that she was just adjusting to her "integration") if we'd seen her growing out of it. Instead, the writers would follow the pattern of her
apparently realizing what her problems is...and then the next story focusing on her, she's back to her old problems.
And to be blunt, it got to the point where she was mentally revising history so that it wasn't
she who conjured up Jadzia in
Avatar...but Julian? (In the same book where she broke up with him...in a manner that REALLY came across like she was trying to put responsibility on
him for
supposedly never having gotten over Jadzia....)
Now...that being said...I do like, for the most part, how she's been written as Captain. I had some issues with her characterization in
Destiny (far too hard-edged), but I loved how KRAD and Uma wrote her...and I'm okay with her in
Zero Sum Game. I liked her interactions with Bashir in
The Fall series...and I sincerely hope that'll be picked up on, in the books to come.
It seem to me that, as Captain, she seems to have worked out a lot of her issues from the Relaunch.
