Comments on: I love Wil Wheaton

By: Props round 2 « Cultural learnings of America's hat

Props round 2 « Cultural learnings of America's hat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:48:08 +0000

[...] by Mathew Helmke (of planet ubuntu) chomping on the same bit. It seems we both share a man crush (along with another blogger) on a certain Wil Wheaton (wiki), better known as our favourite character (/s) from the Star Trek: [...]

By: Bill K.

Bill K. — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:02:05 +0000

And let’s not forget “The Curse”!

By: Chorpler

Chorpler — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:06:03 +0000

As a kid watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, I always hated Wesley. He was just so smarmy. Then I found out what an awesome guy Wil Wheaton is, and my mind exploded. His reviews of some of the episodes he was in are absolutely hysterical:

http://www.tvsquad.com/bloggers/wil-wheaton

By: Irishman

Irishman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:29:55 +0000

One of my favorite episodes where Wesley saves the day involved some computer game that was actually a mind control device taking over the crew. What I liked was the ending had Wesley running around the ship being pursued by the crew to prevent him from escaping and subverting them, and they succeed in catching him, and then Data bursts in and sets off the device that breaks the hold of the mind control. Data had been turned off earlier in the episode because he wasn’t susceptible to the mind control. Wesley knew he couldn’t do it alone, but instead set himself up as the decoy so Data could work on the rescue device without being discovered. I thought that was a brilliant storyline variation for Wesley. The audience wasn’t aware of the decoy plan, so the drama of Wesley being the sole resistance, and then getting caught, was pretty tight.

By: Irishman

Irishman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:24:45 +0000

DenverAstron, DennyMo, a little poking around will turn up some reviews that Wheaton has done on Next Gen. He has some rather critical remarks about the writers and their use of Wesley. I think he agrees with your assessment.

By: Troy

Troy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:26:17 +0000

I’m glad he was on the enterprise, I didn’t like how they made him into a hyperspace traveler prodigy though that never seemed like his forte.
Glad he is such a cool (or uncool depending on your perspective) guy!

By: DennyMo

DennyMo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:47:20 +0000

Thank you, DenverAstro, for stating the obvious: I don’t know if it was the writers or really bad acting, but I just can’t stand most of the episodes that featured Wesley. Too much whining, god that kid needed a good face slap from his mother. OK, the last episode with him was decent, but I wonder if that’s because I knew he’d probably never be back again in the show.