Wil Wheaton Review of "Angel One"

[Salinga]

Long time no see but Wil Wheaton found the time to write a new review of a TNG episode from Season 1, this time it's "Angel One":

Ramsey didn't create the dissent that's rippling through their society, he just accelerated the change that citizens on Angel One are hungering for. If they execute him, it would make him a martyr, and nobody wants that. Especially Ramsey, who would really prefer not to die. Beata appears willing to relent, but it's just a clever ruse. Ramsey is put into the kill-u-lator, but seconds before he's derezzed, Beata grants him a stay so she and the other Mistresses can reconsider. Jesus, she's going to kill him, then she's not going to kill him, then she's going to kill him again, but then she's not ... women!

... oh. Sorry about that. I see what I did there.

Read the full review here:
http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/03/28/star-trek-the-next-generation-angel-one/

 

[CorporalClegg]

Thats so awesome.

I wonder if there anyone quite like that where fans of a show all pretty much loathe a character, but adore the actor because of his uber awesomeness?

 

[Michael]

I love Wil's reviews! They are one of the funniest things on the net. Here are my favorite parts:

Tasha, Data and Troi beam over to Stage 16, which is where they should have known to look for the survivors all along if they had just read their call sheets. (Important Trek trivia note: This is the first time we ever see the transporter used site to site, rather than to or from a transporter pad. This is also the only important thing about this scene. We now return you to your synopsis.)

... they're all worried about this seemingly unavoidable confrontation with the Romulans that's been looming since the second act and really can't wait until the very last episode of this season to be resolved.

 

[Trekker4747]

I can't help but laugh at this quote:

Wesley tells them to get a bat. When they don't know what it is, he describes Worf's penis. It's not awkward at all.

From the Justice review/recap.

 

[cultcross]

Don't find Wheaton all that funny, personally, but I know I'm in a minority.
Some interesting points made in his reviews though, but I have to question his 'trivia fact' - a site to site transport is shown in The Voyage Home (when they escape the hospital), I'm not 100% sure which aired first, but I think it was the film. Apologies for the fanboyish nitpickyness of that

 

[HRHTheKING]

I think it's great that someone who ruined so many TNG episodes is reviewing TNG episodes.

 

[Geck]

I think it's great that someone who ruined so many TNG episodes is reviewing TNG episodes.

Wil Wheaton did not ruin TNG episodes. Poor scripts and bad characterization of Wesley did.

I still find his reviews hilarious too, I just wish he'd do more than one every 3-4 months!

 

[Trekker4747]

I think it's great that someone who ruined so many TNG episodes is reviewing TNG episodes.

Wil Wheaton did not ruin TNG episodes. Poor scripts and bad characterization of Wesley did.

I still find his reviews hilarious too, I just wish he'd do more than one every 3-4 months!

Agreed. Wesley was a lot better in the 3rd and 4th seasons. In the 4th season he was treated a lot more "adult like" had an actual uniform and treated more like a member of the crew. And that point, it's a shame he had to leave.

But the wide-eyed, "Gee-Whiz/Golly" Wesley doing the big-boy voiced, "I'm with Starfleet,we don't lie," was a little punk who made you want to jump into the screen and dump his books.

But once the SHOW'S balls dropped with the Third Season it seemed so did Wesley's.

 

[Snaploud]

Don't find Wheaton all that funny, personally, but I know I'm in a minority.
Some interesting points made in his reviews though, but I have to question his 'trivia fact' - a site to site transport is shown in The Voyage Home (when they escape the hospital), I'm not 100% sure which aired first, but I think it was the film. Apologies for the fanboyish nitpickyness of that

Star Trek: The Voyage Home was released roughly one year prior to TNG's premiere episode.

 

[Snaploud]

I think it's great that someone who ruined so many TNG episodes is reviewing TNG episodes.

Wil Wheaton did not ruin TNG episodes. Poor scripts and bad characterization of Wesley did.

I still find his reviews hilarious too, I just wish he'd do more than one every 3-4 months!

Agreed. Wesley was a lot better in the 3rd and 4th seasons. In the 4th season he was treated a lot more "adult like" had an actual uniform and treated more like a member of the crew. And that point, it's a shame he had to leave.

But the wide-eyed, "Gee-Whiz/Golly" Wesley doing the big-boy voiced, "I'm with Starfleet,we don't lie," was a little punk who made you want to jump into the screen and dump his books.

But once the SHOW'S balls dropped with the Third Season it seemed so did Wesley's.

Personally, I think he should have just started out (on the show) as a post-Academy ensign or lieutenant. The whole acting-ensign bit was a little hard for many fans to swallow, and the Mary-Sue aspects of the character would have been diminished had he been given a more reasonable role within the chain of command.

 

[Salinga]

I am pretty surprised, that TrekToday doesn't report about the Wheaton reviews.

 

[Mr. Fergy]

Wil Wheaton is a great guy, just hated his character until the 5th season. I loved in in "Stand By Me' and "Toy Soldiers"

 

[witchbsword]

Dangerous?

Really? Four guys? Well, I guess all of us men in the audience can scratch our nuts with confidence right now, because four people who pee standing up are enough to scare the hell out of these supposedly tough women who take shit from no man.

Not a guy, but this cracked me up!!