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Maybe the End of the Beginning of the End 'Til Death Do Us Part (Part Two of Ten) Review by Steve Perry Airdate: Week of April 12, 1999 Written by:David Weddle & Bradley Thompson Directed by:Winrich Kolbe File Photo || Mission Log || Opinion Poll Short Take: Very ominous Brief Summary:As with last week, all sorts of things happen Review:i'll say this several times before the arc is over, but it won't be easy grading these on an individual basis. I'm going to trying to place each episode within the context of Bad Things Happening and The Good Guys Rebounding to Win. Here goes nothing. TDDUP is the part two of ten. What does part two do? Basically, get you anticipating things to come, I would think. It did that, and did it well. Things are looking grim, and no one even knows it. First, the Breen. Boy was Weyoun great at the end, better than even Keevan at the end of Rocks and Shoals I think. Who knows what to think. These guys are clearly badasses and should be feared. I wish we had a better setup, though. This isn't awful, since it merely makes the Dominion stronger, and doesn't wreck the entire picture. But it would have been nice had we seen just some of the enigmatic Breen in the buildup to this. Still, very ominous. The Weyoun/Founder was minimal this week. Damar was extremely well done, however. Amazing how a simple mirror shot can work. The scene where Dukat told him to reach in and pull his old self out of him almost inspired me! Speaking of Dukat, Dukat and Alaimo both were fantastic. Careful scheming, using the right words to trigger the Kai (I suspect Dukat, too, has had a vision) and being remarkably humble. And even a little research into the Kai's terrorist activities! You have to love the Kai in this, too. The old Kai is back, insisting on planning the wedding and seizing on Anjohl's statement that his crops are better to mean that the Prophets want him to help her and not that they're helping him. That's the Kai in a nutshell. She cars about the Prophets, but in that they help her. They can't aide her with Dukat tempting, however. The big concern is that this, with The Reckoning, pulls her into the bad guy camp again after Rapture. I wish something had been done to chnage this specifically... like Opaka coming back. She comes back, everyone loves her, the Kai is jealous, she has someone kill Opaka, but makes it look like a Cardie did it, or maybe Garak did it, or maybe Sisko is covering for Winn because if Bajor is in chaos the war is hurt... you get the idea. A big thing they should have had. Oh well. Worf and Ezri, like last week, had good and bad moments, with the overall characterization being strong. As expected, they're not a new couple. They merely have too many emotional issues coming from Jadzia, and bad things happened. Yet they both still care for each other. Worf as with K'Ehleyr thinks mating=marriage. Ezri is disappointed, mainly because Worf should love her but is being a jerk. Basically, two people are afraid to express real feelings and you get a lot of arguing. Yes, it can be cheesy, but it's also fairly realistic, given they're both aliens and one has a worm... I found the Julian revelation to be awfully done, however. Not that old Julian doesn't deserve her - he's a good ol' chap and I wonder if she deserves him - but revealing it through a muttered dream sequence? I'd prefer if the Breen simply walked in there and gave Worf a PADD with it on there to tick him off. The Sisko marriage was extremely well done, I thought, withe exception that the ceremony, however rushed, needed to milk things more. This is the Captain getting married! (Ross was actually decent here, by the way, and not Admiral Wooden). However, everything else was strong: Kasidy's understandable indignation; Sisko's realization of his mistake, thanks to Quark, Kira telling him to obey the Prophets, leaving her after his refusal much gloomier than even Odo at the wedding; and finally Sarah Prophet showing true emotions for Sisko this week. You get the feeling events are beyond their control, as well, leaving things very dangerous in the weeks to come. Is Sisko making a mistake? Probably, but he probably couldn't live with himself if he let Kasidy walk out on him, either. I hope to see more buildup here. We're going to need lots of 'splaining to find out what the Prophets can't even handle. A prophecy or to would be nice to set things up... The only problem with that sequence was that Jadzia's death was never mentioned. Of course, that episode was so bad, perhaps they have purged it. We can always hope... A great episode about choices. Choices are the foundation to good characters and we had good characters here. And it left things very dangerous: how will Damar react to the Breen, what will come of Ezri and Worf, what is going to happen to Sisko, and what is Dukat up to? Keep it up; only eight to go, sniff. Some short takes: - Everyone hush about "why doesn't everyone recognize Dukat?" BECAUSE HE IS A BAJORAN. That and he's not going to senior staff meetings to hang out with Sisko! He looks completely different, is humble, talks differently, and no one has any reason to suspect him! Heck, he's probbly speaking Bajoran to top it all off! - Since Kira and Dukat killed Breen and took off their unies in Indiscretion, they should know what they look like... unless the Breen have bizarre bio-destruct? - I like the name Adami, too. I agree with the Gul on something... Rating: A-/A Next week: Plots within a plot! | |
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