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⌈ Secret Post #1763 ⌋

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It's hard to argue with people about DS9's quality. Maybe because it comes down to taste so much. Personally, I can't stand the show. But I know that it does plot very, very well, and it has character development, and it does the multi-season arc very very well. All stuff that I approve of and support--but not nearly enough to rescue the show (for me) from all the stuff I think it's doing wrong--the dialogue, the acting, the excruciatingly dull characters, the failed humor. But that stuff's harder to point to, because, as I think this thread is making clear, aesthetics ping people differently. It's easier to point to the stuff DS9 does right, because it's not aesthetic, it's structural. And I really do have to give the show kudos for that. In that sense, *I* have pretended to like the show.

But my actual experience of WATCHING THE SHOW is wanting to tear my hair out with boredom and frustration, and sometimes I don't want to talk about what the show's doing right, calmly and diplomatically. I want to rant about all the reasons I think that despite doing plot/arcs right, I STILL think the show fails overall. Feeling major sympathy for the OP, still--especially after having to calm down enough to write this.

I want to rant about all the reasons I think that despite doing plot/arcs right, I STILL think the show fails overall

Yes! Reasoned discussions FOR THE LOSE. You can have a million conversations about how it was very daring of star trek to sit around in space and not go anywhere, and how nice cardassian architecture is, but I basically sometimes just want to go 'it's TERRIBLE, I WANT THEM ALL TO DIE, BURN IT DOWN, WHY DOES IT NEVER END??????'

I hope the OP didn't have to watch it actually in the presence of someone loving it, and try to enjoy it. That must have been quite painful.

I did. And it really. really. was.

But that's just terrible. I suppose if you've been pretending to like it for the first few seasons it gets a bit awkward to suddenly spout forth with actual truth.

To make a long story short: there was a boy. I pretended to like it to spend time with him, praying it would get better, and then it never did. it's his favorite fucking show. he gets all emotional and teary when he talks about it. telling him I hate it now would feel like stabbing him in the back.

Oh god, that SUCKS.

That's terribly difficult. If you got through 7 seasons of it and still quite like him, though, that's a good sign at least.

(One of the worst things about deep space nine is the hope that it'll get better. It's bad enough anyway, but everyone says it gets better, and you know that everyone loves it, and you feel like there *must* be a reason they love it, and it might be ANY MOMENT NOW, and then it never comes and it's just AN AGONY OF RUBBISH.)

I want to like DS9, it has some things about it I really enjoy, but honestly between the producers daddy issues (Ron, Gene's been dead a very long time, you can stop whining now. Besides, dear Ron, you made a career out of reinventing someone else's wheel. You're not some kind of visionary no matter how much you guys think you are) and fan attitude? I just get annoyed.

Plus it seems to be the first place we see the 'Vulcans who aren't our favorites are all assholes' attitude that ran over into Enterprise and I just can't forgive them for that.

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