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I don't have any problem with big arc shows. I even watched reviews of B5 eps before I started to watch this show and I liked those reviews.
Also he put together reviews of related things like episodes from one story arc (now he doing reeviews of first arc of Dominion War) or have same theme , characters (like Q episodes).
edited 5th Nov '11 3:54:56 AM by DeathCloud
The dominion occupation of DS 9 is probably one of the best arcs in trek. Next to the last season. The entire last season was just...win.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?If DS 9 hadn't been syndicated I wonder if they could have gotten away with splitting the cast for six straight episodes. Bit of a ballsy movie for a show based around these characters interacting.
Not enough planet-of-the-week stuff? Really? That was the main complaint? I loved DS 9 being more arc based.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Oh sure. No space travel, no sweeping action theme music at the start... it 'doesn't feel like Trek.' Which I can understand. Maybe if they had just dropped the "Star Trek" in the title, so people would be reminded that its supposed to be a spin-off? Unlike VOY, it was not an heir to the flagship show.
So, "Duet", eh?
I know I'm alone in this — but I always disliked the twist. Partly because Harris Yulin (in his best role ever) was 100 percent frightening as Darheel. I felt cheated that it was all a dumb act which makes no sense. The Cardassians need only beam up some DNA from the dead Darheel on their planet to prove he's dead. Well, unless the Bajroans are so bugfuck paranoid that they refuse to believe them.
But anyway, like any good reviewer, Chuck sort of changed my mind about the episode.
edited 8th Nov '11 7:30:10 PM by johnnyfog
I'm a skeptical squirrelChuck's line in the latest review about Cardassians being victims of their own government and growing to be monsters or broken husks echos something Picard says in "Chains of Commands", about how the Gul torturing him was bullied, and now grew up to be the one doing the bullying, and he's grooming his daughter to do the same.
He means Andrew Jackson, who some view as infamous for his genocide of the native americans.
I'm a skeptical squirrelProbably the same way a lot of idioms and metaphors are shaped in the real world. Like the phrase "sour grapes" (and others I can't think of right now). There might have been multiple interpretations to that fable once upon a time, but one was more popular and continued to spread until the others were forgotten and only one remained. Now since we're all tropers I know it doesn't apply to us, but I've seen several times people using phrases that they didn't know the source for.
Plus it could also be a translation convention - the universal translator is picking up the language as a metaphor. I liked the episode because it's probably a pretty good example of what our contact with alien lifeforms will really be like (I fully expect for us to learn things about them that just don't seem possible to us).
1) Why would the Bajorans ask the Cardassians for anything? 2) Like Chuck said, he probably expected a Cardassian trial. Heck, he probably didn't even expect that, but what happened at the end (to be knifed in the back, to be lynched). The... irony? of it is that he was kind of right, the Bajorans were all set to kill him right away. I'm guessing he changed his appearance so even if they were hesitant to kill him, later discovery would encourage them to kill him off even faster. His plan was solid and would have worked if Sisko and Odo hadn't been there. As is often the case with Cardassians, it's a little scary how brilliant and rational it all was.
edited 13th Nov '11 6:38:39 AM by NateWinchester
Chuck will now take request for Star Trek TAS and Star Gate SG 1
Eh, he'll do the reviews if he someone sends him the DV Ds or the money to get them.
"Tyyr's a necessary evil. " Spirit

I find that the big, arc-heavy shows like DS9 and TP aren't fit for recaps. At least not in Chuck's non-linear pattern. I mean, I know what happens in both shows, and it still didn't engage. It's a lot of "this is going to pay off later," or "we'll be seeing more of those space mines later".
I'm a skeptical squirrel