From: cortese@hepxvt.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
Subject: Re: TNG set, Wesly, and other ramblings
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:18:03 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.225946.13430@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> kanamori@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Atsushi Kanamori) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.214713.17777@nevada.edu> jamesb@nevada.edu (James Bender) writes:
>>
>>	Hi. The telivsion station out here show the new episode(and I use 
>>new REAL loosely)tuesday nights at 8:00, and a repeat at 9:00. I realy didn't
>>notice it till last night, but the sets have changed a lot since the first 
>>year. The new sets seemed to be a bit more detailed, and just generally nicer.
>>
>>	And on the subject of Wes. and Alexander. I think the big problem is
>>the writing. 
>
>I think the problem with Wes was absolutely the writing. Alexander suffers
>from both writing and acting. I haven't much data on Yar yet, but I must
>say I'm unimpressed with Denise's acting so far.
>
>
>>I think this was also the problem with the Lt. Yar character. I've
>>seen Wil Wheton(sp?) in other stuff, and he's not a bad actor. 
>>A girl in my
>>Economics class has seen stuff the Denise Crosbys been in(other than 
>>skintight,
>>and Pet Semetary), and said the same about her. 
>
>How they perform outside of TNG is irrelevant. If they don't perform on
>TNG, I want them off TNG. Period.

Agreed, but it is relevant to the argument at hand -- that Wheaton and
Crosby and crappy actors.  (I don't think Wheaton is lousy even on TNG.
I think he's quite good.) 

>This business about Wes is rather moot, IMO, since there's no way Wheaton
>will want to be typecast as the character on a regular basis again. But
>since you bring it up...
>
>>	Wes. Have him graduate(not now but in due time), then have his charater
>>be a little more laid back. Take all the just plain CORNY line out of his
>>dialoge. 
>
>"Light years can't separate..." 

And I suppose *YOU'VE* never said anything remotely corny to a young
woman you were trying to sidle up to . . .  

>>At That moment, his characterlost the little credibility I had given it. 
>>And for gods sake, try getting him a girl friend whos
>>e not too old for him. That girl in the episode with the game(I am 
>>terrible with titles) 
>
>Uh... could it be... "THE GAME"? Nahh :-)
>
>
>>was just no right. It's bad enough that they're trying to pass him 
>>of as a super-brain, but this is streching it just a bit. That 
>>girl was a bit out of his leagu

She didn't seem to think so! 

>I'd prefer it if for once, they'd drop the teenage love romance angle 
>entirely. It's trite, it's boring and it's bound to tempt the writers
>into sledgehammer preaching about teenage promiscuity.

Despite the fact that it was just about the only time that Wes got any
respect from the sweaty-palmed, frustrated little technogeeks who hate
him so badly . . . Jeez,guys.  Whenyou get that age, you start getting
girlfriends.  What the hell is wrong with that? 

>>	Alexander. For now, I think he should just be ornamental. Don't try
>>to write whole episodes aroud him, let him develop a personality first. A 
>>few bit appearences here and there would have given him a sorf of history 
>>with the show, and they could have built somthing from there. 
>
>Three things that would improve Alexander tremendously:
>  
>  1. Replace Brian Bonsall with someone who can act.

Okay, that's it.  Where the hell have I heard that name before? 

>  2. Stop having him be confrontational with everyone all the time.
>     Not only does is it as boring as hell to watch a bunch of adults
>     be "threatened" by a 3 foot tall "bratoid" (to steal a word),
>     it ruins the credibility of the show to have promos like
>     "Worf battles his greatest enemy. His son." They should have learned
>     this lesson with the Ferengi.

They still haven't burnt all those lousy child-psychology books fromthe
`30's, have they? 

Regards,
Janis C.


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