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fangasmic2010-04-13 06:29 pm
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[but daddy, i love him!] Wil Wheaton: Still Awesome
On the list of people my father would disapprove of me dating (read: all people; any people) there is one type in particular that would drive him to violence. He would probably label these people "wusses", "pansies", or "wimps". Now I'm not saying Wil Wheaton is any of these things, but at the time when I had a giant crush on him? Definitely.
Wesley Crusher started out as an annoying kid in a weird sweater; a Mary Sue; a wannabe.
A fresh-faced boy-genius living on a Star Ship where his mom was the CMO and his might-as-well-be-your-father was one of the greatest Captains of all time? You better believe people hated him. But damn if I wasn't ten-year-old hot for his rosy cheeks and bright ideas. I mean, let's be serious-- it was probably a little creepy that my three fixations on Star Trek: The Next Generation were Wesley, Riker, and Data. Some of my friends would probably start making jokes about robots and older men. But Wesley? He was just a misunderstood and brilliant teenager!
Frown, Wheaton. Frown.
Which is, you know, basically what every teenager feels like.
I made the mistake of arguing with my older brother one week about whether or not Wesley was awesome and he informed me that basically the entire world hated Wesley Crusher. The entire world. Millions upon millions of Star Trek fans and all of them wished Wesley Crusher would beam down and fall off a cliff face off world. Ouch! I kept it under wraps after that.
When TNG ended, Wil basically fell off the face of the planet for a few years. Sure, he did the odd episode of something, but compared to the run of an incredibly popular Sci-Fi series it wasn't much. Even WW himself has talked about going to auditions or meeting ladies and being remembered only as "that kid on Star Trek". So maybe it's a good thing that he flew below radar until some facial hair grew in.
I forgot to mention: I almost always hate facial hair.
But in the last few years Wil has started an incredibly popular blog, a matching twitter account, written several books and guest-starred in many of the shows I watch regularly. Yeah, he was on Numb3rs selling comic books (laugh at me all you want), Leverage, and of course he's been on The Big Bang Theory twice recently.
The fact is, Wil Wheaton is cool now. Full on nerd-cool, with people asking him his opinion about other nerd things, and following his blog religiously. He's still pretty fresh-faced (though I am still undecided on this whole facial hair thing*) and apparently multi-talented.
I don't care if dad would hate him. Ten year old me still wants to hold hands with Wesley Crusher and visit the holodeck. We could be obnoxious and pretentious together and make plans to take over the galaxy in a very positively received way. It would be awesome.
And then my dad would have to kill him and bury the body.
But before that happened I would have the chance to rub how awesome WW is in everyone's faces. If I could go back in time to the late 80s/early 90s, maybe I would. Maybe I wouldn't! But if I did, I'd say this: CHECK OUT WIL WHEATON NOW, BITCHES.
* Bradley James, I doubt you are reading this, but if you are, please stay clean-shaven. I mean, you looked fine with facial hair but your face is so beautiful it really deserves to be on display at all times. Much like the rest of you.
Wesley Crusher started out as an annoying kid in a weird sweater; a Mary Sue; a wannabe.
A fresh-faced boy-genius living on a Star Ship where his mom was the CMO and his might-as-well-be-your-father was one of the greatest Captains of all time? You better believe people hated him. But damn if I wasn't ten-year-old hot for his rosy cheeks and bright ideas. I mean, let's be serious-- it was probably a little creepy that my three fixations on Star Trek: The Next Generation were Wesley, Riker, and Data. Some of my friends would probably start making jokes about robots and older men. But Wesley? He was just a misunderstood and brilliant teenager!
Frown, Wheaton. Frown.
Which is, you know, basically what every teenager feels like.
I made the mistake of arguing with my older brother one week about whether or not Wesley was awesome and he informed me that basically the entire world hated Wesley Crusher. The entire world. Millions upon millions of Star Trek fans and all of them wished Wesley Crusher would beam down and fall off a cliff face off world. Ouch! I kept it under wraps after that.
When TNG ended, Wil basically fell off the face of the planet for a few years. Sure, he did the odd episode of something, but compared to the run of an incredibly popular Sci-Fi series it wasn't much. Even WW himself has talked about going to auditions or meeting ladies and being remembered only as "that kid on Star Trek". So maybe it's a good thing that he flew below radar until some facial hair grew in.
I forgot to mention: I almost always hate facial hair.
But in the last few years Wil has started an incredibly popular blog, a matching twitter account, written several books and guest-starred in many of the shows I watch regularly. Yeah, he was on Numb3rs selling comic books (laugh at me all you want), Leverage, and of course he's been on The Big Bang Theory twice recently.
The fact is, Wil Wheaton is cool now. Full on nerd-cool, with people asking him his opinion about other nerd things, and following his blog religiously. He's still pretty fresh-faced (though I am still undecided on this whole facial hair thing*) and apparently multi-talented.
I don't care if dad would hate him. Ten year old me still wants to hold hands with Wesley Crusher and visit the holodeck. We could be obnoxious and pretentious together and make plans to take over the galaxy in a very positively received way. It would be awesome.
And then my dad would have to kill him and bury the body.
But before that happened I would have the chance to rub how awesome WW is in everyone's faces. If I could go back in time to the late 80s/early 90s, maybe I would. Maybe I wouldn't! But if I did, I'd say this: CHECK OUT WIL WHEATON NOW, BITCHES.
* Bradley James, I doubt you are reading this, but if you are, please stay clean-shaven. I mean, you looked fine with facial hair but your face is so beautiful it really deserves to be on display at all times. Much like the rest of you.