The astonishingly forgiving Wil reviews what was alleged to be the episode which inspired the creation of the USENet newsgroup alt.wesley.crusher.must.die.die.die.
Wil Wheaton is a blogger, by the way.
Image from grudge-match.com
Hat-tip to Pommie Simon.
Oh thanks a lot tig. Until today I realized I any memories of that episode succesfully repressed. Now its all coming back. Noooooooo!
This is what Sunday blogging is all about! Yay Tigtog!
This episode was saved for me by what Wil calls Picard’s “Butthead moment”. He’s paralysed with desire, arm braced against the doorway of the ready room and unable to say more than “HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH” to a frisky Beverley Crusher. Aaah. I LOVED that bit.
Unfortunately for me, my prime Trek buddy has a freakin’ crush on Wesley, still after all these years.
Everything came crashing into focus for me when I first read that Wesley Crusher was Gene Roddenberry’s Mary Sue.
Mary Sue links:
“Mary Sue and How to Avoid Her” by Alison Dowdall (Google this for the cached version – I can’t make the link work)
The wikipedia Mary Sue article is very good.
Mary Sue Merchandise
Too Good to be True: 150 years of Mary Sue
I just realised that geekarama was a mis-spelling, and had to fix it.
I was a TNG addict, not least because I loved Troi. The ep wasn’t that bad but, yes, Wesley was highly annoying.
Of course you loved Troi.
heh
It’s the resemblance to a certain tv chef!
Actually, for a TNG first season episode this was one of the better ones.
“The Naked Now” is eminantly watchable for a Star Trek episode. Will Wheaton is just pandering to the fans. The fans know nothing. That’s why they’re fans.
There’s plenty of stupid science moments to take issue with in “Naked Now”(Data’s “sucked versus blown” distinction, for example) and sure, Wesley Crusher is an annoying Mary Sue character, but the underlying science fictional premise has the necessary face validity, and the character interaction is good.
Wil’s playin’, f’sure. I’m looking forward to his description on his own blog of preparing to do the review above (today his time sometime). In the comments to the TVS piece, Wil says:
What CL said.
“Smack my ass, Wesley, I’m a naughty, naughty bitch.”
Heh. Also amongst the deleted dialogue from Teh Princess Bride, IIRC.
Whatever happened to the delightful Cary Elwes? I don’t remember him in anything after Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
Oh dear. Men in tights. I’m off with Flynn, Grainger and Fairbanks for a while now. I might need a lie down.
Apparently, Shatner has turned down a free ticket on board Bransons $200 000 per seat space joy ride to be launched in 2008, as he is not to keen on floating space vomit.
Celebrities Sigourney Weaver and Victoria Principal, however, have been delighted to accept the space junket.
Sigourney sounds a logical choice, but is it possible Branson has sold Principal merely on the anti-aging effects of weightlessness?