Wil Wheaton used to play nice guys.

Did you know that Wil Wheaton is 41? I didn’t, I still see him as Wesley Crusher and a kid, I guess he just suffers from the Ralph Macchio syndrome, always looking younger than he is. So, when I was watching Star Trek, TNG [The Next Generation for those of you not in the know], he was playing a young boy and teenager, I didn’t realize we were so close in age.

When we first saw him in Stand By Me, where first garnered attention, he was a sweet, fresh faced kid, Gordie Lachance, just trying to fit in where he could and stand up with his friends and he played his part so well. The next time we paid attention was on Star Trek, Wesley Crusher was a sweet, inquisitive, caring, striving to be the best that he could be to represent his family and impress Captain Jean Luc Picard [sigh, don’t get me started!].

I haven’t seen him in a lot of things since Star Trek, but he does have an impressive resume, as evident by the listings on imdb.com, but the few things I’ve seen him on in the last few years, Leverage, Eureka and The Big Bang Theory, all he does is play a mean, vindictive, conniving, unhappy, tool, yeah, that’s about right. The only time you see him smile is when he is beating someone at something, cheating, conniving or just being plain ole mean. You kind of want to throw something at him or punch him on the nose.

So, maybe he didn’t want to be typecast, but I still have to ask…what happened to Wil Wheaton?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000696/?ref_=sr_1