![]() ![]() It makes sense for her to still be defining herself. Here, she reminds Arjin that she is only a few years away from where he is standing. In Emissary, Sisko hasn’t seen her since the joining. It’s worth noting that Dax seems to be a relatively recent host. We all know about the weight of expectation and the shadow cast by legacy. The sense of stepping into oversized shoes is one that is relatable. This crisis of identity makes it a lot easier to understand and empathise with Jadzia as a character. You’re her first initiate.” Later on, she assures him, “I’m not going to make this difficult for you.” However, it’s clear that Jadzia’s own insecurities are clouding the issue (she utters the phrase “I’m not Curzon” three times), making her lose sight of the fact that it’s not her job to make Arjin feel better about himself. I’m Jadzia Dax, and Jadzia’s only a few years older than you are. ![]() “I’m not Curzon or Lela or any of the others. “Look, let’s get one thing straight,” she warns him early on. And I won’t do to him what Curzon did to me.” When Sisko references Dax’s reputation as a harsh task-master, she’s quick to respond, “That was Curzon Dax.” When Sisko points out that she has the authority to challenge and confront Arjin, she replies, “Yes, but I’m not Curzon Dax. However, it’s important here because it provides Jadzia with a manner of differentiating herself from her predecessor. To be fair, this proves to be the hook for a later and even stronger Dax-centric episode, coming back into play for the penultimate episode of the show’s third season, Facets. Curzon recommended that my initiate period be terminated.” When Arjin asks how she impressed Curzon, she replies, “I didn’t. Indeed, Curzon was such a tough cookie that he even turned Jadzia’s life into a living hell. ![]() “Field training with Dax was the nightmare of the initiate corps,” he remarks casually, as if articulating some strange universal law. Arjin tells Bashir, “Dax is known for breaking initiates.” Even an outsider, Sisko, knows how difficult working with Curzon could be. Playing God is really the first time we’ve seen Jadzia Dax try to firmly distinguish herself from her predecessors, and that’s a good thing.Īpparently Dax has a reputation. After all, it must be hard to define your own identity when you have the memories of countless previous hosts swimming around inside your head. The last couple of Dax episodes were all centred around the value of the symbiote inside of her, but it’s nice to get a sense of who Jadzia is. To be fair, the main strength of Playing God is that it focuses on Jadzia as an entity in her own right, rather than Dax. Farrell works a lot better when given scripts with a bit of energy, and the characterisation makes a great deal of sense – after all, this is a person who has lived for centuries, why wouldn’t she be adventurous and outgoing? Standing tall with her hands behind her back, Farrell gives Jadzia a sense of definition and age, but she doesn’t quite have the screen presence to anchor a scene while just passively standing there. Part of that is down to the fact that Terry Farrell always looked distinctly uncomfortable playing the wish old mentor figure. ![]()
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