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Topic	Eight Board-Eighters Rank Star Trek Characters
SaveEstelle 01/24/20 3:05:36 PM #144:	#52 Wesley Crusher I just wish adults would understand." Wesley Crusher continues my trend of dropping TNG characters early in the game. Wil Wheaton did his best -- which to be honest wasn't all that great back then, but it was passable -- in order to infuse this character with boyhood charm. I think the biggest problem Wesley ever faced was Trek fans themselves. He was doomed, you see, by the below-average first season because there were entirely too many occasions in which no one listened to Wesley (because Wesley was a teenager) but Wesley was right (which was supposed to surprise the audience each and every time) and in the end Wesley's adolescent correctness was a pillar of the crew's success in overcoming a mission. This was drilled into skulls time and again until all but the most ardent supporters of this character (whom I'm not certain exist actually) were fed up with it. I guess the writers tried to balance this by having Wesley step on some grass at one point and nearly be killed for it but please reread this sentence and tell me if something doesn't add up here. As Next Gen progresses, Wesley improves bit by bit until lo and behold he is no longer terrible. Unfortunately, it's too little and too late, and the fandom menace had long since decided his fate. Wil Wheaton amicably departed the series during the fifth season, though he made a few returns before the end. Mind you, I concur with the general sentiment that Wesley is well-utilized in "The First Duty", but "The First Duty" utilizes young Crusher as a plot piece more than an actual character -- it's Picard who shines brightest here instead. One of Wesley's guest appearances later on, "The Game", is pretty good despite its eye-rolling premise, but his final return in "Journey's End" is... less stellar. Wesley ranks so low on my list by sheer weight of how many times I cringe when thinking about the first couple of seasons of the show relative to how little his gradual improvement counts for anything. Once he's no longer a dreadful centerpiece he stops functioning especially in most of his remaining episodes, which makes his departure rather shrug-worthy. --- Hi! I'm Quinton.* Did you know that Emilia Clarke will be my wife in 2023? <cite>SaveEstelle posted [p:933427230] in Eight Boar... [t:78315622]...</cite> <quote>#52 Wesley Crusher *I just wish adults would understand." Wesley Crusher continues my trend of dropping TNG characters early in the game. Wil Wheaton did his best -- which to be honest wasn't all that great back then, but it was passable -- in order to infuse this character with boyhood charm. I think the biggest problem Wesley ever faced was Trek fans themselves. He was doomed, you see, by the below-average first season because there were entirely too many occasions in which no one listened to Wesley (because Wesley was a teenager) but Wesley was right (which was supposed to surprise the audience each and every time) and in the end Wesley's adolescent correctness was a pillar of the crew's success in overcoming a mission. This was drilled into skulls time and again until all but the most ardent supporters of this character (whom I'm not certain exist actually) were fed up with it. I guess the writers tried to balance this by having Wesley step on some grass at one point and nearly be killed for it but please reread this sentence and tell me if something doesn't add up here. As Next Gen progresses, Wesley improves bit by bit until lo and behold he is no longer terrible. Unfortunately, it's too little and too late, and the fandom menace had long since decided his fate. Wil Wheaton amicably departed the series during the fifth season, though he made a few returns before the end. Mind you, I concur with the general sentiment that Wesley is well-utilized in "The First Duty", but "The First Duty" utilizes young Crusher as a plot piece more than an actual character -- it's Picard who shines brightest here instead. One of Wesley's guest appearances later on, "The Game", is pretty good despite its eye-rolling premise, but his final return in "Journey's End" is... less stellar. Wesley ranks so low on my list by sheer weight of how many times I cringe when thinking about the first couple of seasons of the show relative to how little his gradual improvement counts for anything. Once he's no longer a dreadful centerpiece he stops functioning especially in most of his remaining episodes, which makes his departure rather shrug-worthy. --- Hi! I'm Quinton. Did you know that Emilia Clarke will be my wife in 2023?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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