Day 21 - Least Favourite Character
Sep. 11th, 2019 08:42 amThe first time I saw ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nostalgia refer to Odo as a fascist, I was like, "Hang on, that's a bit unfair."
Then I watched DS9 again, and frankly, with each successive rewatch, it becomes increasingly obvious just how fair it is.
(I'm not technically rewatching right now, but between The Greatest Generation: Deep Space 9,sohotrightnow's blog posts and nostalgia doing a rewatch, I may as well be.)
"Character is biologically determined to seek order; is naturally authoritarian as a result" is an interesting premise, but DS9 doesn't really consider the logical next questions, ie, "Is that a good thing?" and "Can he change?" Worse, much of the time they don't seem to realise what it is they're depicting: harassment by law enforcement as comedy; straight-up collaboration.
That's the nadir: the bit in ... season 6? When the station is under Dominion control, and we cut from Quark saying, "Odo would never collaborate" to ... Odo collaborating.
["My Odo is not a collaborator. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a collaborator...but he is NOT a porn star."]
But he's forgiven in the end, even by Kira, and then we all move on as if nothing happened.
Then we come to the worst thing about Odo: his relationship with Kira diminishes her. Admittedly, none of her love interests are much good, but with Odo, she basically becomes an object to be nice guyed into submission.
Runner up: Vic Fontaine, Odo's PUA trainer. Aside from the fact that I find his personality irritating and resent that he takes up so much screentime which could, for example, be dedicated to developing Ezri, it's just kind of obnoxious how DS9 is suddenly doing stories about the personhood of holograms without, for example, doublechecking that Voyager hasn't been covering this exact ground for years.
( The rest of the days. It's weird to have this one negative question amidst an otherwise positive and fluffy meme, isn't it? )
nostalgia refer to Odo as a fascist, I was like, "Hang on, that's a bit unfair." Then I watched DS9 again, and frankly, with each successive rewatch, it becomes increasingly obvious just how fair it is.
(I'm not technically rewatching right now, but between The Greatest Generation: Deep Space 9,
sohotrightnow's blog posts and nostalgia doing a rewatch, I may as well be.)"Character is biologically determined to seek order; is naturally authoritarian as a result" is an interesting premise, but DS9 doesn't really consider the logical next questions, ie, "Is that a good thing?" and "Can he change?" Worse, much of the time they don't seem to realise what it is they're depicting: harassment by law enforcement as comedy; straight-up collaboration.
That's the nadir: the bit in ... season 6? When the station is under Dominion control, and we cut from Quark saying, "Odo would never collaborate" to ... Odo collaborating.
["My Odo is not a collaborator. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a collaborator...but he is NOT a porn star."]
But he's forgiven in the end, even by Kira, and then we all move on as if nothing happened.
Then we come to the worst thing about Odo: his relationship with Kira diminishes her. Admittedly, none of her love interests are much good, but with Odo, she basically becomes an object to be nice guyed into submission.
Runner up: Vic Fontaine, Odo's PUA trainer. Aside from the fact that I find his personality irritating and resent that he takes up so much screentime which could, for example, be dedicated to developing Ezri, it's just kind of obnoxious how DS9 is suddenly doing stories about the personhood of holograms without, for example, doublechecking that Voyager hasn't been covering this exact ground for years.
( The rest of the days. It's weird to have this one negative question amidst an otherwise positive and fluffy meme, isn't it? )
