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I know this is probably an unpopular opinion around here, but I liked the character Wesley, but find Wheaton the person to be somewhat insufferable
I think his normal chill vibe is way different than his host mode. Hosts have to bring a lot of weirdly excited energy to their platform and you have to be pretty charismatic to pull it off. Don’t like him too much as a host but as a dude he seems cool
I also liked his character up until the very end (no fault of his, just didn’t like the writing). Wish he had powered through in starfleet or at the very least became a regular scientist or something instead of space Jesus lol
Wesley was fine but that last episode is so bad not just because of the traveller stuff. It really felt like one of the early season 1/2 episodes that tried to say something but missed the mark by a wide margin and became problematic in and off itself. Pile on the fact that the Native American advisor for Voyager was a fraud and yeah, it all feels gross. Star Trek did Native Americans dirty.
And really has yet to make up for it despite having time to.
Oddly enough, the TOS episode The Paradise Syndrome was actually pretty positive about indigenous Americans despite being made during a time when they were still the "redskin savage" on a lot of other TV shows. Kirk doesn't just fall in love with Miramanee, but with her culture and their way of life, and there's very little 'noble savage' or 'mystical Indian' bullshit. It's a great story about how a "backward" culture compared to a far advanced one might not be so backward after all.
It did have the typical problem of that era of Miramanee being played by a white actor with actual indigenous actors playing smaller roles, but it was still a better depiction in my (admittedly non-indigenous) eyes.
Hey man, everyone has the same eyes; we're all human. Although Chinese eyes are definitely prettier.
It was the other way around for me.
No idea what he's like in private, but he was active on reddit, and was always willing to be friendly.
Wesley was a douche lol. I kinda liked him anyway, but he was an arrogant little shit.
Wil has a tendency to overreact to things that he finds upsetting or offensive, but I like him otherwise.
I don't want to be a dick, but unless you know him personally...
Fair. Let me rephrase: I don't care for the persona that he projects when he's playing "Wil Wheaton." I find it extremely disingenuous, pandering, and over-the-top