I was kinda surprised to find out that apparently season three gets panned by a lot of the fans - sure, there are some pretty sub-par episodes (and as you said, poor Dax gets saddled with a lot of them), but there are some really awesome ones in the mix, and it feels like everyone really starts to mesh as a team. Also, more of the Cardassians.
The Dominion was introduced as this huge threatening power, but then it was all back to business as usual.
Yes, this! I really think season four's when they realize, whoops, they should probably start building that tension. Much as I love that they don't make it an all-out shooting match from the word go, I think the show's really at its best when it starts using all the added tension to exacerbate existing relations within the Alpha Quadrant. Which is always fun.
That screencap of Garak at the end of "The Die Is Cast" reminds me that I have a whole meta to post on that two-parter - I think that was the episode when I really started to get interested in Garak as a character as well.
Also, I really, really need to watch more of BSG - I keep getting distracted. Considering I basically have the soundtrack memorized, it's a bit embarrassing to admit I've only seen, what, two hours of it? Eep.
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Date: 2010-03-19 06:55 am (UTC)The Dominion was introduced as this huge threatening power, but then it was all back to business as usual.
Yes, this! I really think season four's when they realize, whoops, they should probably start building that tension. Much as I love that they don't make it an all-out shooting match from the word go, I think the show's really at its best when it starts using all the added tension to exacerbate existing relations within the Alpha Quadrant. Which is always fun.
That screencap of Garak at the end of "The Die Is Cast" reminds me that I have a whole meta to post on that two-parter - I think that was the episode when I really started to get interested in Garak as a character as well.
Also, I really, really need to watch more of BSG - I keep getting distracted. Considering I basically have the soundtrack memorized, it's a bit embarrassing to admit I've only seen, what, two hours of it? Eep.