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  21. Posted · Edited by youbroughtheryouRiker

    I didn't mind her, really. I'm a little disappointed that Terry Farrell felt she had to ditch the show when everyone pretty much knew there was only one season left. I mean, if they could have kept her alive and in a coma, only to re-awaken at the end or something... well that would have been cheap too, but to cut and run like that... disappointing. Avery Brooks admitted he didn't want to stick it out either, but he did for the sake of his son, to show him character.

     

    Now onto Ezri... first off the actress's last name... DeBoer. You can't go wrong with a good Dutch surname! :elephant: The only way that could have been more awesome is if she were from Western Michigan. I'd be in love, then.

     

    As for acting, there were a couple episodes where DeBoer really shone through... the episode where she had to call forth Joran to solve the murders... Jadzia couldn't have done that episode because it required getting into the mind of a killer, which is what a counselor would do as part of their profession. Only disappointments were 1) that they figured out who the killer was right away just because of a freak meeting, and Joran recognized "that look" and 2) that the killer had to be a Vulcan who was disturbed by displays of happy emotion. But Ezri was flawlessly executed in that episode.

     

    I do think it gave other characters a chance to grow, too. Worf, sure, definitely... Sisko didn't quite have the confidant is Ezri that he did in Jadzia, so he actually had to start confiding in his second-in-command, whom he should have been communicating with all along (but that was part Kira's fault, too, what with him being a religious icon). And how about Julian? I admit, in the first season or two, I hated Bashir. I was like, "They couldn't find an ACTOR to play him?" It wasn't until "Our Man Bashir" that I started to gain a respect for Siddig, and by the 7th season, was actually rooting for him to get himself a girl. And the childish game they played... something so sweet and charmingly innocent about it that made it all the funnier when everyone else was looking onward and shaking their heads that it took them that long to get together.

     

    Yeah, it sucks that they had to take on a replacement for the seventh season because of Farrell, and maybe they could have let the symbiont die too... DS9 was dark enough to pull something like that. But after watching the final season with her in it, I'm now more upset that there wasn't any profile or anything on her on the 7th discs, Special Features! I mean, there were only 9 Hidden Files when all the other seasons had had TEN! They did one for Rom, Martok, Nog, even Vic, but they couldn't do one for Ezri... someone who got an opening credit??!! Inexcusable!