Gul Dukat is so well written. It really seems like he’s going to be redeemed seasons 3 and 4, and then WHAM-POW he’s a fascist who sells his own people out to the Dominion, and a racist who actually thinks Cardassians are superior beings. The show makes you like him, and then completely pulls the rug out from under you.
I hated that part. It was so unbelievable that a man like him suddenly becomes a saint. Also, at some point suddenly nobody seemed to think of Cardassians as evil anymore, while previously they were portrayed as raping mass murderer fascists.
But props to Marc Alaimo, he really played Dukat extremely well.
It was so unbelievable that a man like him suddenly becomes a saint.
I think it was pretty hard to determine exactly what his role in the occupation was until s6e11, “Waltz” when he outs himself while pulling a Misery on Sisco. Though I guess his selling out the Cardassians to the Dominion one season earlier was a pretty glaring clue. It seemed to me that he could have been a victim of circumstance rather than a vindictive monster until that point.
Though in hindsight, I get it being very hard to swallow that he might be redeemable.
Gul Dukat is so well written. It really seems like he’s going to be redeemed seasons 3 and 4, and then WHAM-POW he’s a fascist who sells his own people out to the Dominion, and a racist who actually thinks Cardassians are superior beings. The show makes you like him, and then completely pulls the rug out from under you.
I hated that part. It was so unbelievable that a man like him suddenly becomes a saint. Also, at some point suddenly nobody seemed to think of Cardassians as evil anymore, while previously they were portrayed as raping mass murderer fascists.
But props to Marc Alaimo, he really played Dukat extremely well.
I think it was pretty hard to determine exactly what his role in the occupation was until s6e11, “Waltz” when he outs himself while pulling a Misery on Sisco. Though I guess his selling out the Cardassians to the Dominion one season earlier was a pretty glaring clue. It seemed to me that he could have been a victim of circumstance rather than a vindictive monster until that point.
Though in hindsight, I get it being very hard to swallow that he might be redeemable.
Then they completely break him in the later seasons, make him very vulnerable and human with grief, and he still comes back as an asshole.
I have enough people like that in my life.