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How I Accidentally Stayed Up Until 5:30am

November 16, 2007 5:28 AM

k, seriously, not having to go to school or a job has fucked my sleeping schedule. I'm not even doing anything important--I just find myself watching TV or fucking around on the internet. And that's never been more apparent than tonight. Here's what I've been doing since about 1am.

First, I wanted to find an interview with Tim Kring, the creator of Heroes that Purple Hays told me about. It's not as long and extensive as I would have liked, but he definitely admits that they've fucked up the show to some degree and--perhaps most awesomely--promises that not all of the new characters will live through the season. God, I really hope that Maya and Alejandro get the Nikki and Paolo treatment. See, and if I had stopped there, I might have gone to bed at a reasonable hour.

But I didn't stop there. I scrolled down to the bottom of the page. I clicked on some links and eventually found myself reading an oral history of the production of the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which just happens to be one of my favorite shows and which just happens to have first aired twenty years ago. Anyway, I read through that and, again, had the chance to save myself, but I couldn't. You see, I found two more irresistable links. The first was to a list of the top-ten TNG episodes ever. (By the way, the list is totally fucked up because it doesn't put "Best of Both Worlds" or "All Good Things . . . ." at the top. Still, the choices are pretty good. And I actually referenced the tenth-best episode last weekend while talking to Bluebunny.) That was fairly straightforward. It was the second link that really fucked me. It was a "where are they now" thing. In particular, the page for Wil Wheaton, who played the super-annoying teenaged wizkid Wesley Crusher (I actually never minded him that much when I used to watch the show, but he's pretty bad now that I've seen some reruns), gave me two good links. The first was to Mr. Wheaton's personal blog, which actually doesn't seem that great, except that it did link to this video produced by the writers of the Daily Show about the strike. It's pretty good:

The other Wheaton-related link, though, is solid TNG-fan gold. It's Mr. Wheaton's reviews of the episodes from TNG's first season. And they are fucking hilarious. They also offer some fairly entertaining behind-the-scenes info. Here's a representative quote:

Before the Edo leaders will tell Riker how many people they can bring down from the Enterprise, they suggest that they "play at love." Rivan, the woman, suggests that Worf play at love with her (Aside: if my memory serves me correctly, Michael Dorn and Brenda Bakke, who played Rivan, spent a little time, uh, playing, together during the production of this episode,) while Liator looks at Riker, jams his true desires deep into the closet, and asks Troi if she'll play with him. Just before Sexual Harassment Panda shows up, Wesley Crusher says, "Dude, this is bullshit. Either hook me up with some fine Edo ass, or let me get away from you creepy middle-aged swingers and find it on my own."

Okay, maybe that's not what he says, but it's certainly what a certain actor who played Wesley Crusher was thinking at the time. What he actually says is, "Uh, erm, uh, I'm a weenie and I can't be too close to this crazy hot woman who wants to go all Mrs. Robinson on me. Can you please take me to some kids my own age, so I can get as far away from the boobies as possible? It would be great if there was some sort of science project I could work on, and some technobabble I could deliver, too. I really need to be in my comfort zone, or at least change into some loose-fitting pants."

Anyway, their all fucking hilarious if you, like me, are a comlete and total nerd.

Anyway, that's how I ended up staying up until 5:30am.

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