Wil Wheaton on CSI tonight

[Crothian]

nope, he actually played a small role and was not the bad guy

 

[Mark]

False lead/red herring suspect, but his character did happen to have the primary piece of evidence in his possession...

 

[diaglo]

I mean diaglo. You'll get him started on TOS being the only true Star Trek and such...

curses foiled again. i thought my trap was well laid.


James Tiberius Kirk is the only Captain .....

 

[dravot]

curses foiled again. i thought my trap was well laid.


James Tiberius Kirk is the only Captain .....

I thought it was Christopher Pike. My bad.

 

[Henry]

I watched it - not bad for the 10-minute part they gave him. On his blog he said something about after the episode airs, he'll be free to talk about something he shot but they didn't use.

Anyone want to bet they shot two endings, one where Nick was right and one where the cop was right? After all, the spatter pattern on the shirt doesn't seem to look the same when they find "Walter" versus when they are examining it in the lab.

 

[dravot]

I watched it - not bad for the 10-minute part they gave him. On his blog he said something about after the episode airs, he'll be free to talk about something he shot but they didn't use.

Anyone want to bet they shot two endings, one where Nick was right and one where the cop was right? After all, the spatter pattern on the shirt doesn't seem to look the same when they find "Walter" versus when they are examining it in the lab.

It certainly makes sense. The test that they ran at the end could easily enough have gone any way the writers wanted it to, and the internal logic would be preserved.

That was the first time I've ever seen CSI. Not a bad show, but I doubt I'll put it on my appointment teevee schedule. I liked Wil's character. Very intense. I wish he'd had a bit more screen time.

 

[Mark]

I watched it - not bad for the 10-minute part they gave him. On his blog he said something about after the episode airs, he'll be free to talk about something he shot but they didn't use.

Anyone want to bet they shot two endings, one where Nick was right and one where the cop was right? After all, the spatter pattern on the shirt doesn't seem to look the same when they find "Walter" versus when they are examining it in the lab.

It looked the same to me. I figured it was more along the lines of Nick going as far overboard in his quest to convict Walter as his cop buddy was to convict the kid, i.e. perhaps they beat Walter and get a confession from him, too.

 

[Ranger REG]

I thought it was Christopher Pike. My bad.

It is. The pilot episode, "The Cage," is considered the truest form of Star Trek, but the doofs-in-suits at NBC whines, "It's too smart for me to understand." And these people who determine what we can watch on TV are college-educated?

 

[Mark]

From a recent NY Times article on Wil

A Computer Is Also a Screen, Wil Wheaton Discovers
By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Published: March 10, 2005

Viewers of tonight's episode of "CSI" may find Walter oddly familiar. Under the Hollywood dirt and scabs, the actor playing a drug-addicted murder suspect may bring to mind a teenage Starfleet officer, or a boy who once sought a corpse. That's because Walter is played by Wil Wheaton, once a wildly successful child actor who these days endures sometimes-painful lulls between gigs - and has, in response, transformed himself into a quirky star of the blogosphere.

(*snip* full story - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/arts/10whea.html *end snip*)

Mr. Wheaton said that on the "CSI" set, he had to manage a potential conflict between his new writerly self and the professional actor. "It was unbelievably difficult for me the first two days I was working on the show to be very present," he said. "They'd say 'Cut!' and I'd say, 'I can't wait to write about this!' "

If he was distracted, it didn't show, said Duane Clark, the director of the episode. Mr. Wheaton had originally tried out for a smaller role, a hotel clerk. But after seeing his audition tape, Carol Mendelsohn, one of the executive producers, suggested giving him the meatier role of Walter, even though the writers had drawn him as an older alcoholic. A younger drug addict, she said, might prove more menacing, more interesting.

At first, Mr. Clark said, the writers said, "Wil Wheaton, a crack addict - are you nuts?" But Mr. Clark said that Mr. Wheaton brought "a lot of scary volatility" to the role.

"He really dug his teeth into it," Mr. Clark said, "and on his own came up with a backstory of who Walter was."

"He really filled out what could have been a caricature. " he said.

To Mr. Wheaton, the experience on "CSI" is proof, if any is needed, that he's still in the game. "When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star,' " he said. "The fact is, Jodie Foster is a former child star. Ron Howard is a former child star. I am a former child star. It doesn't have to mean anything."

 

[Ranger REG]

Yeah, but we like to focus on the dark side of former child actors: River Phoenix, Todd Bridges, Gary Coleman, Dana Plato, Corey Feldman, Janet Jackson, etc.