A bit of fannish chatter in between breastfeeding.

[ladydrace]

Well, daddy and Green Pea are out cold, so it's time for mommy to take a little private time for fannish endeavours.

Since coming home from the hospital, we've been watching season 7 of DS9. It's been a wonderful time just breastfeeding and watching trek. Never too early to introduce Green Pea to the good stuff either. :oP

But with the coming of season 7, there is also Ezri. And I promised myself (and a few people on my flist) that I would keep an open mind about her. I have... and... well...

7 episodes in and I have formed my first impression of her. And I have to say... Ezri Dax... me no likey. But funny enough, I think I would like Ezri Tigan quite well! She's sweet and caring and surely not as confused as the mess she becomes after joining. Ezri Dax is an annoying chatterbox with little common sense left in her over-crowded cranium and for some odd reason there is WAY too much focus on her space sickness.

And I cannot even begin to say how unhappy I was with the Afterimage episode. That was just bad on SO SO SO many levels. And a Garak episode no less! In my view, the writers screwed Garak's character over completely in favour of Ezri's development. GAH!

As for the Ezri/Julian romance coming, I think the writers did that on a whim. There seemed to be absolutely NO hints of it in the early Ezri episodes. Even though Julian is supposed to be going gooey over everything with boobs, he can't even see Ezri that way and calls Quark crazy for suggesting it. Actually, I find it OOC for Julian. And what about the Sarina thing? One episode he's saying how he's found his perfect match and how he loves her and so on and so on... and only months later, suddenly, he's all over the woman he couldn't even imagine himself going for earlier? Confused...

Maybe Ezri is his rebound? Makes sense... War often makes people do strange things.

Comments

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

What bothers me most about Afterimage is how excruciatingly OOC Garak is all of a sudden. I can imagine he might tell Julian (In very strict confidence!) a little more about his fears, but talking so openly about it to Sisko, Odo and this completely unknown little motor-mouth is just completely beyond me!!

I can understand why Julian would see the need to keep his distance in Garak's treatment. Being a friend can easily be as much a hindrance as a help for healing. But he really should have been involved as a friend at least! *Shakes fist yet again at producers for screwing over Garak for O'Brien*

Old Man indeed... and I STILL don't understand why nobody on Trill even raises an eyebrow at how close Dax stays with past friends! Working side by side with Worf should really be enough of a reason for caution. Especially since she has had NO training to be joined. But noooo...

[thelibraniniquity]

The OOC thing could all be a contrivance on Garak's part. He realises he's struggling to function on the station, but when he goes to speak to Julian, he's either too busy working or playing with Miles. Therefore, rather than pulling him away from important things (ie, important work for Starfleet, and a human friend), Garak creates this somewhat flaky persona with which he presses this new, young psychiatric officer-in-training for a diagnosis. Naturally it doesn't go down well. It's quite a stretch, but it could help explain at least Garak's behaviour during the episode. Unless of course it's less about pragmatism, and more about distantly manipulating Julian into spending more time with him rather than that pesky engineer, even if his symptoms become more than an external projection of a largely internal issue and, y'know, start really hindering his performance. He has always seemed the very model of a method actor, and I don't think I'd put that past him. As to whether the plan actually works or not... well ;D

Going back to Dax, I don't think Jadzia's continuing friendship with Sisko would have caused too many problems for the Symbiosis Commission. Curzon and Sisko's friendship was born of an entirely different set of circumstances, and as Jazdia, Dax never sought to progress that relationship past that of them being friends. I always got the impression that romantic reattachments were the real issue, which if nothing else should have been The Clue to all and sundry that Ezri could not have stayed on DS9 without experiencing any more emotional turmoil than she was already going through. No training to be joined does not a cutesy characterisation make - it just provides excellent grounds for the new host's quick and distant reassignment while reorientation takes place - for as long as necessary.

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

I would love to believe that all of Garak's behaviour in this episode could be conceived as a ruse to make Ezri completely bonkers and get Bashir to notice him again. But there is not even the slightest hint of any such plot written into the lines or anything. And Garak seems to like the lies the best when people are aware that he is actually lying. GAH! THE OOC-ness!!!

Good point about the romantic attachments. But that just gives another good reason why she really shouldn't have stayed on DS9. Worf does what Jadzia told him was her custom and keeps his distance (I don't think it's all grief), but Ezri is just SO determined to "talk things through". I don't mind shrinks, but she really is annoying about it.