The first one.
I don't see it as trolling. I don't mind quips, asides and throwaway lines. To me, you build a world with that, hinting at other things going on while having another story.
If that opinion annoys l'll gladly walk the party line. I'm too tired to do anything else.
Uh huh. Literally every time fireproof can’t say I buy it.
That was not jumping the shark that was...paddling around in the general vicinity of the shark.
The at storyline jumped the shark. Dukat was way more interesting in like “The Maquis,” where he was still a villain, but more real world no one thinks they’re the villain type villain. Most bad people are bad “from a certain point of view.”
He was still within the realm of the real world when he was damn near delusional about his role in the Occupation. Megalomaniacs, narcissists, and functional sociopaths are not that uncommon.
But when those contact lenses came out, well, it gave me pause to the extent I had to reassess my love of the show or commitment to the franchise.
Honestly I’d have to give the series another look to tell when it jumped the shark for me. When it had moments of it. I mean I watched it first run and loved it til the end. I read numerous fiction and non-fiction books about it and was most recently raving about the
A Stitch in Time audiobook in the Lit Forum.
But then there were times like Sisko poisoning planets to be cute about Les Miz, and whenever the point was when the Dominion War went from a futuristic interstellar conflict to
WWII: In Space!!!…for me, these were a shark too far.