PATRON TIER LIST - DS9 S1E18 - Dramatis Personae
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Solid fun C
I'm surprised this is drifting to a B average, and now I feel bad I didn't go with my gut and give a B for Bad Episode I Still Like. Still, can't go wrong with C for CLOCK (kudos Heather you got there first <3)
Third time in a row that they make a season 1 episode where they make the characters we don't really know yet, act counter to how they normally act. It would be a fun episode if it were in a later season, but here it's just a nothing burger episode. C-tier for being, I think, the best of the Naked Now style episodes, but still failing to learn the lesson of why those episodes didn't work.
S!!! My personal favourite of the Season. I usually love episodes that involve some kind of mutiny, or for whatever reason our favourite people who are usually best friends side against each other.
This doesn't explore the setting or the characters, which are both things you should be champing at the bit to do at the initiation of a season. It's the kind of episode you write when you're OUT of ideas, trying to pad a later season when most of your effort is focused on bunch of complicated episodes paying off years of prior buildup. Not when you're fresh out the gate. If I didn't know better I'd call this a worrying sign of the series' future. Big 'D' from me. Always skip it, and seeing fresh through the TA's eyes haven't budged that feeling. A new viewer could skip this and lose absolutely nothing.
I completely disagree, for the same reason i give The Naked Now S. The episode is fun, entertaining and almost everything i want in a Star Trek show. I knew the characters well enough.
A tier for me.
Love Brooks hamming it up
DS9 Season 1 has two S-tier episodes in my tier-list: "Duet" for obvious reasons, and "Dramatis Personae" because it's my ultimate guilty pleasure. Not a very sophisticated meal, but more like a huge delicious pizza. It's just pure joy watching every actor in the cast break free from their awkward Season-1 straight jacket and go for it. Same vibe as "Mirror, Mirror" actually, and that's one of the best episodes of TOS.
You know, I can get on board with this. It IS a lot like 'mirror mirror' in that regard actually.
C for CLOCK!
I don't think this is too early in the series. Yes, we don't know the characters that well at this point, but neither do the other characteds, and the distrust between them all only feels as natural because of how distant they all are with each other. Already by the start of S2, they're too close for this episode to have worked.