Hit a nerve did I
Has anyone said DS9 did not have some melodrama??
Lennier almost killed Sheridan so he could have his puppy pining fulfilledB5 didn't dedicate entire episodes to Lennier mooning over Delenn.
Hit a nerve did I
Has anyone said DS9 did not have some melodrama??
Lennier almost killed Sheridan so he could have his puppy pining fulfilled
You don't need entire episodes when you are making a tapestry dude
Nelson would be proud of you
Methinks thou doth protest too muchA nerve? It's a tv show, dude!
Of course, things like the sailing eps (where they prove the Bajorans could have made it to Cardassia prime YEARS before Cardassians went out into space, changing the history of two planets) could have been cut out, but you would miss that bit of backstory out.Building a tapestry over several seasons a few minutes at a time spread out over random episodes is not quite the same as having entire episodes dedicated to sailing or changing diapers, dude.
Methinks thou doth protest too much
Of course, things like the sailing eps (where they prove the Bajorans could have made it to Cardassia prime YEARS before Cardassians went out into space, changing the history of two planets) could have been cut out, but you would miss that bit of backstory out.
I won't deny DS9 had some filler suds, but even the suds *sometimes* had a reason.
Yep.
Very little of it was episodic. Most of it was serial and the lawsuit was not baseless, since it was proven that JMS pitched the Babylon 5 story to Paramount before it was produced. Paramount rejected the script but used most of the idea (according to JMS). Its obvious to anyone who has watched both that there were distinct similarities (read: ripoff). But Babylon 5 was the pure idea and its storytelling was way better than DS9. But I loved BOTH SERIES.
It made absolutely no sense and was an obvious bad writing job by some lazy writers. Hell, I could barely handle the Dax stuff and the Worf stuff but when they shipped a blob of silver Silly Putty with a humanoid romantic partner I said enough is enough and turned that crap off. Really, it was impossible to watch, in fact, it was downright creepy.
What finally did it for me was the love story between Odo and Kira.
And what's with the tired old gimmick in Star Trek of having sentient life forms discover their humanity? My God, they milked that to death!
Very little of it was episodic. Most of it was serial and the lawsuit was not baseless, since it was proven that JMS pitched the Babylon 5 story to Paramount before it was produced. Paramount rejected the script but used most of the idea (according to JMS). Its obvious to anyone who has watched both that there were distinct similarities (read: ripoff). But Babylon 5 was the pure idea and its storytelling was way better than DS9. But I loved BOTH SERIES.
