I'm inclined to suspect that was a deliberate contrast - showing that Our Heroes are desperately fighting (and some of their off-screen bros are off-screen dying :cryingfedflag: ), meanwhile the other guys are content to sit back and drink and laugh in a comfortable office while their soldiers are getting shot at.Stofsk wrote:I kinda wish they'd have spent more money fleshing out the battle in SoA. There are a few pacing issues, like where one scene the Defiant is fighting for its life and things are desperate and action is heating up and then they cut to Dukat having a drink of kanar, shooting the shit with Weyoun in Sisko's office. I mean that stuff is good character shit, but it should have been relegated to an earlier scene. Once battle starts I think it's a mistake to make those kind of scene shifts. The tone of the office scene was somewhat off-kilter. But more than that, I just wanted to see more of the battle. More tactics or shit, you know not just more 'splosions and space pewpews but Sisko giving orders and coordinating with the rest of the Fleet.
I do agree that it's jarring, and may not have had quite the payoff the writers were going for. I think that sort of contrast can work, but I agree that they didn't quite make it on this one.
That was a nice effects shot, but it still surprises me just how much hype it gets when - to my memory, at least - it was just a single pass of a single Galor-class ship being tag-teamed by two Galaxies. It's nice, but I would have liked to see something like a Galaxy trading face punches with one of the Dominion battlecruisers, or maybe a big photon torpedo spread wiping out a few attack bugs at once (i.e. payback for Odyssey).RogueIce wrote:But yeah, it did break up the pacing some and probably made the battle less than it could have been. Still, you got to see some GCSes ruin the Dom/Cardie's shit so it's not all bad.
