Category: imported from GM

When the body speaks

I’m going through my email, and I was read the following question. What started out as a simple answer has turned into a new entry:

Oh, my girlfriend…wanted me to mention that she was completely and totally infatuated with Wesley and Gordie 🙂
Do you consider yourself a part of these characters? Or were they just roles?

That’s a good question…
When I am working on a show, that character that I am portraying takes on certain aspects of me, and I take on certain aspects of him. Sometimes, it is very hard to determine where one ends, and the other begins. There are some characters that I can’t wait to let go of, and others that I am sad to put to rest…it really depends on how good the script is, and how much I have invested in the project, emotionally. I feel that it’s my job to realize the vision of the screenwriter, so I always endeavor to do what the writer is asking. When the writing is very clear, it is easy, and fun. When the writing is unclear (as it was, sometimes, on TNG), it can be like teaching a pig to play poker.
I start out every project full of hope and excitement. Sometimes, that hope and excitement fades to resignation, when I realize that the director is an complete moron, and he’s going to ruin the project, or when one of the main actors is an unprofessional jackass, who thinks he can just do his own thing, and not what the script is asking for. Other times, that hope and excitement endures, and is justified with a terrific final cut.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

FNORD.

Hoopy Frood

I saw this site in my referrer logs, and went there, expecting the usual…but it turns out that this guy actually said some cool things about me:

BBSpot recently ran a short interview with Wil that’s funny enough to make you suspect it was ghost-written by someone who studied Advanced Modern Cultural References at Harvard.

and

Wil Wheaton is apparently a geek, a practiced wielder of sarcasm, and an all-around hoopy frood in general.

Now I’m off to do the happy geek dance.

DoublePlus Ungood Thoughtcrime.

Some thoughts on the previous post, which I’d have put in comments, but the comment thread is so huge, I didn’t know if anyone would see them..so, uh…yeah:
I am horrified at the way this kid appears to have been treated. I think a BIG part of it was that he *IS* a kid, and a non-conformist kid at that. I was a non-conformist kid, and I am a non-conformist adult. I know how McWorld treats us…they just give adults less shit because adults stand up for themselves more than kids do. Maybe he didn’t handle himself well…but kids tend to react honestly to things…and I’d honestly freak out at someone if they gave me shit for the book I was reading. The authorities there clearly knew that they had over-reacted, because they fabricated a story about him making a bomb threat. Don’t lose sight of that.
Should airport security be tightened? Duh. It should have been brought into line with the EU years ago. Why wasn’t it? I dunno…but I’m willing to bet it had something to do with corporate profits.
I didn’t say that this was scary because I am against airport security. Let’s all get that straight. Remember that there was a commision formed specifically to address possible terrorism in the US, and their findings and reccomendations were ignored. Arianna Huffington has an interesting theory.
I was dismayed to read some comments that seemed to fall right in line with the “You’re with us or you’re with the Terrorists” rhetoric, seemingly heeding Ari Fleischer’s warning to “all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like [Bill Maher’s on PI]; there never is.” But I am happy that, now more than ever, we can all conduct ourselves here with dignity and aplomb, and argue ideas, not personalities.

War is Peace

This is scary.