I understand that, but this was TV Guide in 1993. This was his introductory interview as a Star Trek Captain--big shoes to fill--promoting a brand new Star Trek television show.
If you look up TV interviews that Brooks did during his time as Sisko, he comes across as someone who only shares 2.5 dimensions with the rest of us. That other half-dimension he's got is somewhere the rest of us can't reach.
See:
Brooks has always been a little... strange. It's sort of like what Quark says to Rom about Leck in "The Magnificent Ferengi": Avery Brooks is not your typical actor. His priorities are different than others.
One of the weirdest I've ever seen. I dug the finale up until that moment. I’ll never forget watching it at 9 years old, completely baffled as Winn gets zapped, Dukat gets zapped, and then suddenly, Dukat’s back as lizard man.
I absolutely believe that Ira Steven Behr is eternally buttmad that Marc Alaimo made Gul Dukat a compelling character. As much as I love Marc Alaimo, Dukat should not have returned after "Sacrifice of Angels." This was the perfect way to send off the character and complete his arc:
That's where the Prophets live...
Nah, the true ending for Dukat should have been waltz. Either Sisko killed him there, or he escaped in the runabout to go find quark's daughter never to be seen again.
"Waltz" was Behr jumping the shark with Dukat. I don't know where, but I do recall Behr explicitly stating that he didn't like sending Dukat off in a way that anyone could view as sympathetic. He wanted the viewers to hate Dukat and revel in his misfortune. Then, when they didn't, he brought him back as an Antichrist figure when it absolutely should have gone to Kai Winn.
I see both sides. Ira had his vision, and certain, uh, passionate fans weren’t in alignment with it. It wasn’t quite Whedon shoving Marsters against a wall and yelling “DEAD!!,” but they were never going to meet in the middle.
I actually liked Dukat becoming a Bajoran simply because it gave Alaimo the chance to perform without all the make-up.
I mean Waltz is about Dukat going to stand trial and the episode is literally him being on trial with Sisko as the prosecutor and the audience as the jury.
We already got to see Marc act without makeup.
I dunno. "Waltz" just felt unnecessary, but that's just me. You're not wrong, though.
He knows, deep down, he’s no James Gandolfini (he’s a better singer than actor, tbh) and is just grateful to be involved in something that’s still kicking.
I liked the idea of even literal demons being like "eww. no. " at having to deal with Wynn and her bullshit
When was Fuentes "born"
I think he was a bit overly sensitive to that. No one would consider getting co-opted by the Prophets to be a man deserting his wife and child if he were any other race, and I doubt many people considered it as such when they saw the DS9 finale. Brooks' views on race and racism wormed their way into the show here and there - sometimes it worked well like in 'Far Beyond the Stars', sometimes it was out of place like in 'Badda Bing, Badda Bang' (where he doesn't want to play a video game because it's set in a time and place where there was racism against black people).
I still say that worked because EVERYBODY was like "dude, chill the fuck out it's a fucking game" and then the story is resolved with him finally playing along and having fun and singing
It's still weird for a character to be like that - it's like a Jewish person not wanting to play the Assassin's Creed game set in 1600s Rome because the time and place was antisemetic.
That AND they at least placed the episode after "Far Beyond the Stars."
yeah this is important too, like if somebody was like "lol fuck flutes" at picard before or after that time
The only person with any sense in that episode was Worf. "He is a hologram."