I was reading through the AV Club's TNG reviews, and in one of them, the review says that, even though he doesn't hate Wesley, the character totally doesn't work for him because Wil Wheaton was way too old to play a 10 year old.
SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET! I thought, for as all nerds of the late '80s and early '90s should know, Wesley is 14 as TNG begins and turns 15 at some point in the first season. Or something like that, anyway. I can only read so many pages of Memory Alpha in a day.
So I checked the comments to be sure he had been put right.
What did I find? Many, many, many threads about whether or not you're killed and replaced by a duplicate every time you use the transporter. (Answer: the more important question is, is it an evil duplicate? What if the evil duplicate is beamed somewhere? Is s/he replaced by a good duplicate, or does he or she just keep getting more evil, until finally they materialise with a goatee or an eyepatch?)
Then there was a list of Worst Trek Episodes Ever, and by the time I'd disentangled myself from a very serious discussion of just how drunk you need to be to watch "Threshold" (for the record, I've seen it four times, all sober) I'd completely forgotten why I was reading the comments in the first place.
Other things I have achieved today:
- two loads of laundry
- extensive gardening
- dishes
- preserved a vast mass of parsley
- finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Things I am going to do next:
- have lunch
- start on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- have a nap
- keep watching season 1 of TNG
Things I am going to do in upcoming days:
- borrow![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
weaverandom's copy of Avatar: The Last Airbender and watch hell out of it. I watched the first episode the other day. It opened with a Captain Planet and the Planeteers flashback, but then the dialogue happened, and Katara won at life in an epic sort of way, and I fell in love.
SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET! I thought, for as all nerds of the late '80s and early '90s should know, Wesley is 14 as TNG begins and turns 15 at some point in the first season. Or something like that, anyway. I can only read so many pages of Memory Alpha in a day.
So I checked the comments to be sure he had been put right.
What did I find? Many, many, many threads about whether or not you're killed and replaced by a duplicate every time you use the transporter. (Answer: the more important question is, is it an evil duplicate? What if the evil duplicate is beamed somewhere? Is s/he replaced by a good duplicate, or does he or she just keep getting more evil, until finally they materialise with a goatee or an eyepatch?)
Then there was a list of Worst Trek Episodes Ever, and by the time I'd disentangled myself from a very serious discussion of just how drunk you need to be to watch "Threshold" (for the record, I've seen it four times, all sober) I'd completely forgotten why I was reading the comments in the first place.
Other things I have achieved today:
- two loads of laundry
- extensive gardening
- dishes
- preserved a vast mass of parsley
- finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Things I am going to do next:
- have lunch
- start on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- have a nap
- keep watching season 1 of TNG
Things I am going to do in upcoming days:
- borrow
weaverandom's copy of Avatar: The Last Airbender and watch hell out of it. I watched the first episode the other day. It opened with a Captain Planet and the Planeteers flashback, but then the dialogue happened, and Katara won at life in an epic sort of way, and I fell in love.
