PKTrekGirl said:
DizzyMan said:
I notice a few people seem to really like Benjamin Sisko. I've never really been that keen. May I ask what it is you like about him (if you can put it into words)? For example, would you say it was the writing, or Avery Brooks, who makes the character good?
I love Sisko. I mean, I really love him. And there are a number of reasons for this.
First, because he doesn't take any shit from anyone. From slugging Q to kicking Garak's ass in ITPM, to his oft quoted line that he used with Dukat on several occasions: "If you have something to say to me, SAY. IT!" Look at the way he went after Michael Eddington! The man takes no shit.
Second, I love him because he is three-dimensional. You see in his interactions with Jake that, despite the fact that he takes no shit, he is not a hardass with a always-by-the-book stick up his butt. He has a heart, and he truly cares about people. You see this also in his interactions with Jadzia, and to a lesser extent, Ezri.
Third, I love him because he has guts. What he did in Favor the Bold/Sacrifice of Angels took guts - first by confronting the Dominion when vastly undermanned...and second by confronting the Prophets and telling them, in no uncertain terms, to get off their asses.
As for Avery Brooks himself, I think that, once he was given more freedom to make Sisko into the man he wanted him to be, he was fabulous. I think that for the first couple of seasons, TPTB at Trek were trying to fit him into the white-guy-with-a-stick-up-his-ass-like-Picard mold...but the thing is that Avery Brooks' past acting history showed that he excelled, NOT at playing that sort of character...but at playing more of a badass character.
Once Avery Brooks was able to do with Sisko a small bit of what he does best, Sisko really came into his own.
