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That does suck for Will who was a child at the time. The character is probably the most egregious Mary Sue of all time though.
by seniorThrowaway 6y ago
That does suck for Will who was a child at the time. The character is probably the most egregious Mary Sue of all time though.
- LukeShu 6y agoWas he really that bad for most if it though? If we ignore the cluster of bad Wesley episodes that only happened because of the 1988 writers' strike?
- ghaff 6y agoBoth TNG and DS9 had characters inserted to appeal to younger audiences that were mostly annoying/irrelevant to older ones. (DS9 at least had the excuse of being set on a space station.) If the producers weren't thinking about demographics, they wouldn't have been there. The original series wasn't immune either.
- LukeShu 6y agoSure, there's playing demographics, and then there's inserting "the most egregious Mary Sue of all time". I don't think anyone considers Jake Sisko or Nog to be on the level of Wesley Crusher.
- ghaff 6y agoNot really. Although I could have generally lived with a lower presence on DS9. (But it made at least more sense in the context than TNG.)
- Arrath 6y agoYeah I would have to agree. Nog especially, most Mary Sue's don't end up with prosthetics and PTSD.
- iso1631 6y agoActor who played Nog was 24 when DS9 started. Outside of a few very specific episodes mainly based around with his father or Nog, Jake was as boring as hell
- optimalsolver 6y ago>The character is probably the most egregious Mary Sue of all time though I'd give that honor to Rick Sanchez