'Underneath'
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Oh be fair - the beagle has more than one brain cell. Granted, probably the smartest character on the show, but...
Okay. The beagle is okay. The rest, though? Dead loss. Or, at the least, isn't-it-amazing-they're-still-alive loss.
(Suddenly realised that we're back at the game I used to play with my brother: rank your Trek series. My order's always going to be: DS9, TOS, Voy, TNG, Ent.)
What I loved about "Our Man Bashir" was that it built on characterization that had been developing for years. In the first seasons he was all into the idea of spies, and had a bit of a crush on Garak, the possible Cardassian spy. To add to the fix, over the years he'd begun to run James Bond style programs in the Holosuite and look for other spies on the station. And even during the ep, it was Bashir's knowledge of the stereoptypes that got him out, like knowing that he could just charm the key out of the woman scientist, but also realizing the downside that only the woman who ended up with him could survive till the end.
Sort of sad he can't use his own real name, though. Got to be irritating.
Um. why can't he? I always wondered why he changed it.
I read that he found his real name, Siddiq El Fadil, was too hard to pronounce. And his uncle is Malcolm McDowell.
Yeah, I suspect it was one of those things where he was just tired of people fumbling his name, and decided to make up a new one. Like Martin Estevez becoming Martin Sheen. I always wondered if stars who change their names sign their checks that way, or if they keep their legal names the same. (I suppose Sheen kept his legally the same, if most of his kids use it.) (I suppose if you didn't, family reunions would be tense and confusing.)
I remember back when he changed his name, I was rather surprised to see Alexander Siddig instead of Siddig El Fadil. I do remember that it was supposed to be hard to pronounce and hard for people to remember. I'm not sure about the hard to pronounce part because I never actually heard his name officially said out loud so I may have been butchering it myself.
Alexander wasn't totally pulled out of a hat, I can't remember where it came from (where are the hardcore Star Trek fans when you need them!) I want to say it was his dog's name but that just sounds to weird.
He was married to Nana Visitor but they're divorced now and they have a son, I don't remember their son's name but it's something unusual. I believe they named him for a musician they both liked.
Alexander wasn't totally pulled out of a hat, I can't remember where it came from (where are the hardcore Star Trek fans when you need them!) I want to say it was his dog's name but that just sounds to weird.
I think it was a family name, somehow.
He was married to Nana Visitor but they're divorced now
Oh, are they? Clearly I don't keep up with enough of the Trek gossip.
I saw him at a con very early in DS9's run...maybe first season. He was adorable and charming and very nice to all the fans.
Hmmm, my tape ran out right after the show broke for commercial post quickening -- did anything interesting happen in that last scene? (I'm talking Highlander yesterday -- the Byron quickening which was cheese cheese cheese.)
I adore adore adore "Our Man Bashir". The writers of DS9 so got the nature of the Star Trek phenomenon, and pop culture, and how their characters would define themselves in terms of 20th C ideas and so on. And then they had all these excellent actors to act their hearts out with those ideas.
Wrod. DS9 is my favouritest Trek ever.
I'm practically teary at finding DS9 love here. Engaging characters, good actors, interesting stories, arcs, follow-through, humor, epic-ish battles, James Darren, Principal Snyder. I mean come ON. Show rocked.
Also, Tom Welling (sp?) is so pretty. But, do they botox him or something before each episode? I just want to scream, "REACT!!!!" sometimes. He is very pretty, though.
Hmmm, my tape ran out right after the show broke for commercial post quickening -- did anything interesting happen in that last scene?
It was very short. Duncan shows up at the bar. Joe looks relieved that he's alive. Methos is inscrutably Methos. They have a drink. Methos says that Byron's life had become a tragedy, and Duncan says, "And we all know how those end."
I'm practically teary at finding DS9 love here. Engaging characters, good actors, interesting stories, arcs, follow-through, humor, epic-ish battles, James Darren, Principal Snyder. I mean come ON. Show rocked.
Totally. The awareness that what they're writing is a series, rather than an endless set of stand-alone stories-- and the skill to make that work. And things that are meant to be funny that actually are! And Jadzia Dax.
Also, Tom Welling (sp?) is so pretty. But, do they botox him or something before each episode? I just want to scream, "REACT!!!!" sometimes. He is very pretty, though.
Yeah. The thought that comes to my mind, reading this, is "pretty like Spike, wooden like Angel." Which is either an insightful comment, or a really scary look at my brain.