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Wil Wheaton Says He was Vilified by Star Trek Fans for His Opinion on the New Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 16:30, 28 July 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Comicmix posted the third and final part of their extensive interview with Star Trek The Next Generation actor Wil Wheaton. Here are few excerpts from the interview.

Regarding his recent criticism of the new Star Trek movie, Wheaton said "I recently wrote that I was worried about the new Star Trek movie being good, and I was vilified by Star Trek fans for having the temerity for expressing an opinion about this.  Like I don't deserve to have an opinion about this." 


"It was like I farted in church. It was just like the very few times I wrote anything political. It's as if, because I was a celebrity at one time, I'm not allowed to have these opinions as a voter and as an American."

Asked about how he writes a story, he said "Recently I've tried to describe the story in one sentence.  Kind of like I'm pitching it to myself. Let's see, if I was to pitch my first Star Trek manga, it was "Kirk tries to stop a civil war before it becomes a generations-long conflict."


"Obviously, there's more to it than that, but in that kind of situation I don't have to worry about the characters because I know who they are. I don't have to make them up."


"There's another story that I'm working on right now and I'm still figuring out the characters. I know what's going to happen to the guy who is the main character, but that's just like putting gas in the tank and stepping on the pedal. The subsequent journey is about how this guy reacts to and shapes the events around him and how he changes. Once I get that one-sentence thing down, then I start thinking about the characters and who they're going to be."

The full interview is here



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By: rumandchocolate (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:51:28 on Jul 29, 2008

Agreed, many of the flaws of the prequels are present in the original trilogy and some of the criticism is due to the audience maturing while Star Wars didn't.

With that said, there are some fundamental storytelling and characterization flaws inherent in the prequels that didn't exist in the original trilogy. Five minutes into ANH, Darth Vader picks a man up by the throat, kills him and throws him across the room. Darth Vader = Badass. Two hours into TPM, Darth Maul hasn't done anything but sneer and look menacing. When he finally has something to do beyond riding his HoverHarley, it's when he's being attacked by two good guys. Two good guys against one bad guy is not a fair fight. It should be two bad guys against one good guy... it's your good guy who should be facing the insurmountable odds, not the other way around.

In AOTC we don't even meet Dooku (the film's villain) for almost two hours. So when we do, it's not only (again) two good guys against one bad guy, but two Jedi against an old man who we have yet to see ignite a lightsaber.

The original trilogy had a very simple story -- rescue the princess... escape the Empire... rescue Han... blow up the Death Star. The prequels get muddled with talks of trade embargoes, secessions and treaty violations.

And finally, JarJar Binks. Now I don't think JarJar is anywhere more annoying than Threepio was in the original trilogy. However, the other characters *acknowledged* that Threepio was annoying. They hit him, shove him, tell him to shut up. There's a moment in TPM when Qui-Gon grabs JarJar's tongue that's genuinely funny... because for the first and only time in that movie, someone has acknowledged that he's annoying. Had there been more of that, JarJar would have been easier to swallow.

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