Was any one else upset by Damar's death?

[DeafPoet]

"Yeah, Damar, what kind of people give orders like that?"

From that scene forward, Damar became a really sympathetic character and I was sad to see him get killed. But then I thought about it a little more and Damar himself gave justification for why he needed to be killed off. When he offed Rusot he said "His Cardassia is dead, and won't be coming back."

Sure, Damar had come around and was doing the noble thing, but his hands were bloodied with stuff from Season Six and prior. Thematically, it makes sense that though his actions brought about the new Cardassia, his sins were too great to allow him to actually enjoy it.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Not necessarily. People have had some pretty drastic turnarounds even in real life--St. Paul, for instance, is known for having a conversion after having been a murderer involved in a religious purge.

 

[Marie1]

^ True, both did terrible things, and used the rest of their lives in the opposite ways than their former ways...

I'd have thought after all Damar's time in the military he'd know who to make better use of "cover"- especially since it was all around him... guess it must've been for Ziyal... life for life... I think A Stitch in Time talks a bit out this... its in keeping with his reaction, but still seems extreme... then again, Cardassians can be an extreme people.

 

[Praetor]

That they took a guy who started out as a two-line sort of tertiary character and made you care about him enough to be sorry he died is an achievement. The actor wanted him to go out like that and it was effective. I do think Damar could have been an effective leader of postwar Cardassia, but I also think that for the character's past crimes, his more or less heroic death felt right too.

I liked how he wasn't able to finish his final line. It felt real.

Ditto!

 

[My2tailwaggers]

I just finished another runthrough of Season 7, finishing up with "What You Leave Behind" and I really started love Damar's character development at the end. I was rather bummed when Damar died, moreso than the last time I saw the episode. It was an honorable death, dying as a martyr to Cardassian Liberation, however I think no one was better to lead the reconstruction of Cardassia than Damar. Despite all the instances of himself and the Cardassians as aggressors, I think his acknowledgement of the Federation's assisstance and ability to work with Colonel Kira would have given Cardassia a much brighter future diplomatically. For once, Cardassian's could finally find a way to live in peace with the quadrant and could potentially become allies with the Federation or at least on solid neutral terms. Killing him kind of through out all of that out the window, as we are left with just Garak, an impopular Cardassian that believed that the Cardassians could work together with other races. I think the ending would have a little more to it, seeing Damar finally sitting accross the table with Sisko and Ross, and actually seeing him getting the chance to kill Weyoun instead of Garak. Any thoughts on this?

I really would have enjoyed seeing how Damar played out in the relaunch books. I think they could have done a lot with his character....maybe blending in with the DS9 characters.. or even with Garak on Cardassia. Anything would have been possible. He would have made a great leader on the new Cardassia.

 

[The_Beef]

I actually didn't mind it so much. It kept the possibility of turmoil in Cardassia open, made sure the future was still a little uncertain. It was a smart move on the writers' parts, leaving it open like that in case the future of Cardassia was ever addressed again.

 

[Sheliak]