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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9)

#45
ONYX said:
My favorite episodes from this series are the ones that focus on or revolve around Gul Dukat. I always thought that he was one of the all-time great TV villains--evil to the core, yet likable at the same time. He typically viewed himself as "the good guy"---and as I remember, during the original run of the show, Marc Alaimo played him in a way that almost had you believing that he was--I have to admit that I was conned into that belief on more than one occasion.
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The ability to treat your character as if his actions are totally correct and proper, no matter how evil and/or horrible they are is the secret to any really good portrayal of a villain. I won't tell you want caused me to realize this, because it's about politics. But it was still the same mind-blowing realization that no matter what the ideology of a bad guy is, he THINKS he's the good guy. Everyone can pretty much agree that the Nazis were the worst humans in history. But from their point of view, they were the GOOD guys. That just blew my mind. they thought all the horrible things they were doing were GOOD. Sure they were murdering millions of innocent people. But they legitimately had convinced themselves that, just by existing, those people were a danger to their nation. "See that toddler over there? Better murder him! He's a danger to the country!" Not "He might grow up to be a danger." He's ALREADY one. Just by being.

I was looking at people I won't specify. But in the real world. They were doing things that were objectively awful. Things I couldn't see how they could face themselves in the mirror after doing them. I was wondering how they didn't just suddenly develop consciences and either run away to Tibet, or promptly kill themselves. Then it hit me. They thought they were RIGHT. That the horrible things they were doing were completely appropriate and the only thing a right thinking person COULD do in that situation. And even more bizarre, they looked at their victims and thought they were causing all of what was going on.

THAT is the secret to being a good believable villain. Doing as an actor what the people I can't specify were doing in real life.
 
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#46
Dukat started off generically evil and from there slowly started to reveal delusions of grandeur and the idea that he genuinely didn't understand why the Bajorans didn't appreciate him rather than hate him. But then it's like that delusion was phony the whole time. He was hyping it up for himself and all he actually wanted was power and dead Bajorans. It came full circle. He really was just and dick.
 
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Killed_by_Death said:
Quark getting married was hilarious. Grilka was actually pretty hot:

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Nothing quite like getting the poopie kicked out of you during a tender Klingon loving sesh....:D
 
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Just going through series 1 again. Just watched ep 8 “Dax”, where the trill Jadzia Dax has an expedition order against her for an incident during the lifetime of the previous host.
Good episode.

The thought came to me that DS9 must be the peak of Terry Farrell’s acting career. At least of the shows I’ve seen her in I guess.
 
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