Oh, good comparison. BTW, until s3 I thought that was all rather one sided (i.e. poor old Felix having his hero-worship/crush but Baltar simply thinking the guy is useful), but his s3 confrontations with Gaeta were all really emotional even when the guy wasn't holding a gun at his head. But what really swung me around was the deleted scene from the DVDS from the mid-s3 episode where Baltar is on Galactica with the Cylons, and shares a cigarette with Gaeta. (While also giving him the hint about the sun.)
Dukat: alas, alas. Once upon a time, or rather, for almost six seasons, he was a morally ambiguous character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. By no means a good guy - he was the last head of the Cardassian occupation of Bajor before the Bajorans regained their freedom, with all that entails - but a character with positive sides as well as negative ones, and presented forming some interesting relationships with two of Our Heroes. And then, come the last third of season 6, he went crazy and one dimensional. A voice over of Sisko informed us some people aren't shades of grey, they're simply evil. And Dukat spent the reminder of the show being a crazy cult leader and an evil sneering supervillain wannabe. I love DS9, it's my favourite Trek, and otherwise it specializes in shades of grey, but what happened with Dukat sort of traumatized me; ever since, when I get emotionally attached to a morally grey character who isn't protected by being a lead's love interest, I am afraid of the show pulling a Dukat...
(The whole thing is particularly relevant for BSG, of course, because Ron Moore was such an influential writer for DS9. He wrote some wonderful episodes there, truly, but unfortunately also the one where Dukat goes crazy and becomes an evil cult leader (tm).)
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Date: 2008-04-06 07:12 pm (UTC)Dukat: alas, alas. Once upon a time, or rather, for almost six seasons, he was a morally ambiguous character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. By no means a good guy - he was the last head of the Cardassian occupation of Bajor before the Bajorans regained their freedom, with all that entails - but a character with positive sides as well as negative ones, and presented forming some interesting relationships with two of Our Heroes. And then, come the last third of season 6, he went crazy and one dimensional. A voice over of Sisko informed us some people aren't shades of grey, they're simply evil. And Dukat spent the reminder of the show being a crazy cult leader and an evil sneering supervillain wannabe. I love DS9, it's my favourite Trek, and otherwise it specializes in shades of grey, but what happened with Dukat sort of traumatized me; ever since, when I get emotionally attached to a morally grey character who isn't protected by being a lead's love interest, I am afraid of the show pulling a Dukat...
(The whole thing is particularly relevant for BSG, of course, because Ron Moore was such an influential writer for DS9. He wrote some wonderful episodes there, truly, but unfortunately also the one where Dukat goes crazy and becomes an evil cult leader (tm).)