Jag vet att jag hatar Wesley Crusher från Star Trek: The Next Generation . Han är överlägset den mest irriterande karaktären enligt min åsikt. Jag har också hört av andra att han inte var väldigt gillad. Memory Alpha-sidan på Wesley tillhandahåller detta citat:
Wesley Crusher also has the distinction of being one of sci-fi's most hated characters. In a poll done by Maxim magazine only Star Wars' Jar Jar Binks topped Crusher's level of annoyance. Fans expressed annoyance that Wesley always seemed to be the one to save the Enterprise
Min fråga är, när TNG var flyger , vad var den allmänna reaktionen mot Wesley som tecken? Om det var en negativ reaktion , Var detta orsaken till Wesleys avgång i början av säsong 4?
Jag är inte säker på den övergripande fläktreaktionen; Jag var för ung för Star Trek under TNGs ursprungliga körning, och mycket av det är lätt tillgängligt på Internet. Lyckligtvis har Google arkiverat den gamla Usenet-gruppen alt.ensign.wesley.die .die.die 1 som har över 1400 ämnen (visserligen många, men inte de flesta, varav spambots) och Q-only-vet hur många inlägg som spänner från October 1990 till March 2013 . Så det är lite av en aning, hur som helst.
Det var emellertid definitivt tillräckligt avsky för karaktären som Wil Wheaton ofta kommenterar på det. I en intervju rapporterad av TrekMovie. com , till exempel sa han:
What I was hearing back in the old days were older people who were just sort of predisposed to not like a young character on a show. I think the writers could have navigated around that and made him more relatable, instead of like an idea, but they had a hard time overcoming a lot of that stuff. And when I was a kid it was very hard. It was hard not to take that personally. Kids are awkward. Kids are insecure. I spent 50 hours a week doing Star Trek when I was a kid. That was really my life. To go to conventions back then and have people criticizing me and attacking me personally instead of maybe talking about the writing, it was hurtful.
Och på hans webbplatsens vanliga frågor :
Did it bother you that the fans didn't like Wesley?
Yes, at the time, it really really did. Imagine being a teenager, trying to handle all the things a teenager has to deal with. Now multiply that times being on a HUGE TV show, and all these people hate you. It was tough.
Reaktionen var emellertid inte helt negativ; Wheaton har kommenterat att vissa personer, särskilt de som var barn vid tiden, såg showen för av Wesley. I ett blogginlägg skriver han:
[A]s I got older and started to meet more people who were also kids when Next Generation was in its first run, I started to hear these stories from people, about how they had nothing in common with their parents except for Star Trek, and they wouldn't have watched Star Trek together if Wesley hadn't been on the show. I've lost count of the number of people I've met who are now doctors and engineers and scientists because they were inspired by Wesley and Geordi the way our parents’ generation was inspired by Scotty.
osannolikt. Wesley skrevs inte ut av showen per se : Wheaton slutade. Han berättar historien på sin hemsida , och den har mer att göra med hur han behandlades av produktionsbesättningen ( Jag har snippat ut några av Wheaton's waffling, för korthetens intresse):
After something like this had happened a lot of times, this was finally the last straw: I had been cast by Milos Foreman to be in Valmont. [...] I would have had to sit out the first [TNG} episode of the year, right. That's not a big deal, it's not like I'm the fuckin' Captain, you know. At that point, I was the guy who pushed buttons and said, "Yes, sir!" So, I said to the people on Star Trek, "I need to be written out of this particular episode, because I'm going to do this movie and my film career's going to take off." [...] [T]hey said, "We can't write you out because the first episode of the season is all about you. It focuses entirely on your character and it's your story..." So, he said to me, "The story is entirely about you, we can't write you out." I said, "Well, this really sucks, but I'm under contract to you guys and if that's your call and if that's what you say I have to do, I have to do." I had to pass on the movie.
A couple of days before the season was ready to premiere, they wrote me out of the episode entirely. What they were doing was they were sending me a message. The message was, "We own you. Don't you ever try to do anything without us." That was the last straw for me. I called my agents and said, "They don't own me. It's time for me to leave this show, it's time for me to be gone." That's what really pushed me over the edge. It's not worth it anymore. That's why I left.
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