08-17-2013, 09:49 PM
Black wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
[quote=Black]
Neelix was just a bad idea.
The IDEA wasn't so bad... it's just the execution they screwed up.
I can prove it... they failed to execute him for being annoying.
Apart from just being annoying.... the essence of what didn't work about that character was that he would bombard the captain with completely trivial nonsense in the middle of some sort of crisis, and any time she didn't just tell him to f off in so many words was an inconsistency with her own character.
They usually tried to justify his "importance" somehow (crew morale etc.) but it just didn't work.
That is, definitely, without a doubt, where that character went EVER so wrong...
Just ponder for a moment if the writers had actually made Neelix a solo trader captain... a wheeler-dealer, single-ship pilot, maybe part-time asteroid minder, with some actual BRAINS.
Had they used that part of the character concept to it's fullest, it could have been very different for Neelix.
I maintain; as executed, not a great character... though he did mellow some nearer the end of the series.