“He despised you, and everything you stand for,” he adds
I was worried for a second that he was talking about the musician and I was like, “ah, fuck, I liked The Joker”. Anyway, yes, agreed.
Yes, Wil! Haha, yes!
Yeah, that’s fair. Stephen Miller should keep everything else out of his filthy Nazi mouth too, including atmospheric air.
Go on, Stephen: Hold you breath until we start liking your Nazi ass.
Surprising how much still fits with Trump’s dick in there.
Or maybe not, maybe there’s a functional reason he wanted kids
According to Stormy, it doesn’t need mush room.
That would be similar to Hitlers last act of heroism before dying after living as the villain.
You have to hand it to Hitler, at least he killed Hitler!
his equally demented wife says hes a “matador” in bed.
He… waves a red piece of cloth at her before repeatedly non-consensually penetrating her with a spear when she charges so the audience can watch her bleed out in the bedroom?
Odd fetish. I don’t normally kink-shame, but…
…so she’s a bull in bed, presumably?
They just run curcles around eachother in bed while he tries to avoid her railing him I guess.
Fitting, letting bulls charge his cape and all that.
Hey Stephen, hold your breath… trans people have breathed that air before you. ;)
I don’t think Will could beat up many guys, but I believe Will could beat the shit out of Miller.
Where there’s a Wil there’s a way.
*Wil
But otherwise, yes, you are correct.
Wil you leave the poor guy alone, and Wil you stop correcting minor mistakes.
/jk
“Keep talking, Westley.”
Good. More. Bring public shaming back until these cretins scurry back under their rocks.
This one pisses me off. A lot.
If anyone had told me in the 90’s that I would end up deeply admiring Westley Crusher and considering him one of my heroes, I would never have believed it.
In fairness, it’s not new. Wil Wheaton has always been awesome. But this confirms his awesomeness.
The hate for Wil Wheaton has never been warranted. He was a child. He had nothing to do with the writing of his character (wish fulfilment Mary Sue / Marty Stu type of character for Gene Roddenberry).
I’ve been a fan of Wil since before I started watching Star Trek TNG as a kid, when I saw him in Stand By Me. Later in life I learned that he was a nerd, and was “one of us” much more than the other Trek actors. There’s really so much to love about the guy that at this point if you hate him it’s on you, not him.
His character’s a bit annoying in like the first two episodes he’s in, once the writers find their footing he’s fine. He’s not the only character that took a few eps to make sense.
Yep. Whill Wheaton has always been a pretty stand-up guy.
Whill Wheaton
Would you like some coo whip for your pie?
Hwip*
I was one of the few that never understood the hate. I liked his character and he’s a fantastic actor.
The people heading him we about the same age and jealous
The early hate was just in the period where TNG was trying to figure itself out, and if you couldn’t relate to Wesley in some way, you hated him for his part. But it got better, and the show needed that age representative.
To be fair, the first season TNG is a little unsteady on its feet. For instance, Picard was depicted as being a lot more stubborn and rigid in his ways but ended up with a lot more nuance after a little bit.
It was the uncomfortable uniform, he should have worn a skant, then he would have been less rigid.
I didn’t like or dislike the character. I just found the Westley Crusher side arcs of zero interest and basically time wasters.
As in, I watched Star Trek to watch, ya know, star treks - space stuff, aliens, adventure at the frontier of the know universe and crazy science fiction. I didn’t watch Star Trek to watch a teenager come of age: I already had one at home.
I found him annoying in the first 1-2 seasons of TNG but that wasn’t helped by him being classed as a bit of a nuisance. Not helped by Picard not knowing how to deal with him either. Picard was probably better with the younger kids than an adolescent. And as a 10yo with a father the same age as Picard (or at least Patrick Stewart), the similarities between their “styles” felt like a reflection on my life at the time.
The fact I didn’t like Wesley probably means I didn’t really like myself either thinking about it but that’s a problem for me and my therapist, Dr. Shiraz.
Fair, I wasn’t really into the alien dignitary on an diplomatic mission to talk about shit the entire episode. I also loved the high concept sci-fi stuff. But I didn’t think blaming the actor for episodes that aren’t the best was the way to go about it.
This shit cause deep issues for him. Fucked hum up pretty bad.
But I didn’t think blaming the actor for episodes that aren’t the best was the way to go about it.
Oh yeah clearly. I didn’t care much for Westley Crusher, but I had nothing against Wil Wheaton. In fact, I knew nothing about him until he became an adult and I realized he had interesting shit to say.
But clearly he’s not responsible for Westley Crusher anymore than Jon Paul Steuer is responsible for the equally-annoying Alexander Rozhenko character.
Probably the first time I really understood a little bit of the hate was when I watched Galaxy Quest and their parody of him was a little child. It’s just a little bit out-of-odds with the setting that there’s this goofy kid there all the time.
I’m in the early-ish stages of a full Star Trek rewatch (or watch for the first time, for a couple of series). Apropos, I was on the penultimate episode of TAS when news about Stewart broke. Finished TAS, watched The Inner Light, then started TNG.
I guess what I’ll say about the “hate” for Wesley is that we– the audience– were told to hate Wesley, at least in the first part of season one. Picard had active disdain for him, and the entire crew simply called him “the boy.” Roddenberry was like George Lucas in my opinion; the best there was at the big ideas, woefully bad ad the small ones. Individual episode writing and character development being “small” in this context.
I liked him, too. There’s probably dozens of us!
His dice do NOT roll nat-20s, lol, not unless the goal is to roll low
DON’T shut up, Wesley!
Wil Wheaton is the man. He should be on Lemmy. He was on Reddit, and we’d love him even more here.
He was on Reddit
And he was on Slashdot before that.
And Fark!
He was on mastodon too, but I think he left.
he joined a tabletop focused instance that didn’t hold dear the types of treating eachother better ethos most of us here on the fediverse hold dear, so his first impressions of the fediverse was getting bullied by a bunch of nazis. it’s kind of not a surprise he hasn’t been able to recover from that experience, even if it’s not really a typical one
He joined very early. The mainstay of the communities was conservatives ostracised from social media. It wasn’t until the progressives started fleeing Twitter and Reddit that the support-each-other communities would blossom. I went back when I got here and found his treatment and why he left. It was just a bunch of juvenile fuckwads saying, " Shut up, Westley," to everything he wrote. He gave it a solid run, tried to take some of it in jest; in the end, he just wasn’t welcome at the time.
thank you for the additional, and better remembered, context
no no, you were entirely accurate. I just came back for context. I had hoped that he maybe just took something the wrong way; he can be quite sensitive at times, so I hunted down the transgressions and found they were awful to him.
So that’s who Cowboy Neal is!
Fucking legend.
Always nice to see someone telling off the anthropomorphized cancerous polyp designated as Stephen Miller.
“Stephen Miller, on behalf of Star Trek, and everyone who knew and loved him, keep my Captain’s name out of your f–king Nazi mouth,” he wrote. “He despised you, and everything you stand for.”
Wil Wheaton being awesome as usual.
Carry on!
Love this guy.
You tell’em Wesley!
Stephen Miller isn’t even a human being. He should go live on a very small desert island that can only house rats so he has plenty to eat!
