remember delle seyah named him ozzman (?) originally which is a name from her family and that’s his middle name now. So he has a name from each one of his families :’)
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Yeah, the name thing bothered me too. But Delle Seyah seemed to take it well-ish when they told her he chose a new name.
I do remember Ozzman and that it’s now apparently his middle name, but nobody uses it, and to me, it was a way to push down Delle Seyah in favor of D’av. I don’t understand why that whole ep was framed that way. I get the show wanting to cement D’av’s place in Jaq’s life and vice versa, the effect on D’av, but it went way too far. And writers can have Delle Seyah go along with it, I doubt they wanted to put more screentime on that.
It wasn’t as if it was a rejection of the Qresh way of life, it was literally acting as if choosing names is a rite of passage for everyone, when it very much has not been shown to be that, nobody else did it, even Dutch’s name was picked by Johnny. So the choice of Jaqobis over Ozzman in this particular situation came from…where? It wasn’t even about Delle Seyah the person not deserving him carrying on her name, it was just like, oh, I’ve bonded with my bio dad more than my surrogate mom.
Those were the two s4 eps I’ve mentioned as irritating me, the two after Delle Seyah gave birth, when Jaq was going through his growth spurts and everyone was trying to figure out a way to save him while Delle Seyah was offscreen for almost the whole thing and then we had the D’av-Jaq ep and after making sure to place D’av as the more important parent against Delle Seyah, they focused on his perspective against the lead character Dutch’s? It felt like someone was trying to make up for so much of the show’s main dynamic being Dutch-Johnny and by that point bringing in Aneela and her bonds with Delle Seyah and Dutch and overcorrected to try to give D’av some screentime and perspective for a while. Because most of the time they don’t write like that and I was fine with the rest of the season and s5. Even without much screentime in s5 at all, I very much adored how the Kendry-Kin Rit(-Jaqobis) family was written.
I get there’s some logistical reasoning behind some of those mid-s4 decisions, they needed certain characters to be in certain places, and they needed certain dynamics to happen, but that’s the problem with plot first. They usually do character first so well, some of that writing really stood out
