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Wil Wheaton playing for EFF
Quintin Stone (and every other Slashdot reader on the planet) writes: "Wil Wheaton is among the many Star Trek actors on tonight's Weakest Link, except that the charity he's playing for is the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Though so far he's been doing well." CD: I don't want to give away the ending, many people have yet to see the show.
I enjoyed watching the show (WL), but I've gotta ask: Was Roxann just putting on an act, or is she truly as much of a colossal bitch as she seemed? My jaw dropped when watching her "exiting interrogation".
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Spoiler, If you didn't watch yet:
Wil did pretty well. Made it to being one of the last three people (Robert Picardo And LeVar Burton went on, LeVar won), and I think he could have taken Robert. LeVar was pretty sharp, though.
Also, it was good to see the EFF on a more 'Mainstream' medium. Go Wil!
What was with Roxanne? She was honestly out to get Wil at first, and she just seemed like a real bitch, otherwise.
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According to the disclaimer screen at the end of the show, all of the charities get at least $10,000. So, even though Wil lost, EFF still gets some money. Besides, the free publicity that Wil just gave EFF is probably worth much more than the donation.
Everyone also got paid union scale to appear on the show, so Wil got a few bucks out of the deal, as well.
All of the contestants seemed to pretty much rock at one time or another on the questions... much better than on the average celebrity game show. LeVar Burton mentioned something about $167,500 being some sort of Weakest Link record.
Just in case anyone was wondering, here are the contestants:
Wil Wheaton (ST:TNG)
LeVar Burton (ST:TNG)
Robert Picardo (ST:VOY)
Denise Crosby (ST:TNG)
Roxann Dawson (ST:VOY)
John DeLancie (ST:TNG,DS9,VOY)
William Shatner (ST:TOS)
Armin Shimerman (ST:DS9)
Levar played for an LA chapter Junior Achievement.
BTW, the EFF and all the other charites (except for the winner's) receive $10,000 according to the fine print at the end of the show.
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THE WEAKEST LINK - STAR TREK EDITION - 11/26/2001
The Team: 1. Wil Wheaton
2. LeVar Burton
3. Robert Picardo
4. Denise Crosby
5. Roxann Dawson
6. John DeLancie
7. William Shatner
8. Armin Shimerman
Round 1: $17,000 banked
Strongest: Crosby - Weakest: DeLancie
Votes: Dawson 2 (Wheaton, Shatner), DeLancie 2 (Burton, Crosby), Shatner 2 (Picardo, Shimerman), Wheaton 1 (Dawson), Picardo 1 (DeLancie)
Crosby elects to remove DeLancie
Round 2: $13,500 banked (total $30,500)
Strongest: Picardo - Weakest: Shatner
Votes: Shatner 3 (Burton, Picardo, Shimerman), Crosby 2 (Wheaton, Shatner), Wheaton 1 (Dawson), Dawson 1 (Crosby)
Shatner removed
Round 3: $2,500 banked (total $33,000)
Strongest: Burton - Weakest: Crosby
Votes: Dawson 4 (Wheaton, Burton, Picardo, Shimerman), Wheaton 1 (Crosby), Shimerman 1 (Dawson)
Dawson removed
Round 4: $14,500 banked (total $47,500)
Strongest: Picardo - Weakest: Shimerman
Votes: Crosby 4 (Wheaton, Burton, Picardo, Shimerman), Shimerman 1 (Crosby)
Crosby removed
Round 5: $25,000 banked (total $72,500)
Strongest: Picardo - Weakest: Shimerman
Votes: Shimerman 3 (Wheaton, Burton, Picardo), Wheaton 1 (Shimerman)
Shimerman removed
Round 6: $25,000 banked (total $97,500)
Strongest: Burton - Weakest: Wheaton
Votes: Wheaton 2 (Burton, Picardo), Picardo 1 (Wheaton)
Wheaton removed
Round 7: $35,000 X2 banked (total $167,500*)
Strongest: Picardo
Final: Picardo starts, Burton wins 4-3
* - According to comments made by Burton, "They say it's a record."
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Too bad he didn't use his exit interview to plug the cause again.
Maybe he did, but the exit comments are obviously edited. If he mentioned them again, it would probably have been cut.
The cable networek PAX replays WL. It might show up there eventually.
Actually you can have the EFF deducted from you payroll. You make your deduction throught the United Way and on the form you can elect where your money goes. You can choose from one of the United Way Charities, or you can donate to any 501c3 tax-exempt organization. On the donor form check the Specific Requests, code 99 is usually the one for 501c3 charities and include a statement saying which 501c3 charity, you want your money going to, along with their address. I personally give to the FSF through the united way, but plan on including the EFF sometime soon.
And now that you're on this thread, I'd like to ask a few questions about the show, if you don't mind: What is Anne like when the cameras aren't rolling? What's the deal with the $500 amount (You can't bank when it's on $1,000, but $500 is added every so often at the end of a round)? Do you know why no other original series members played?
When I ran into her backstage (literally. crashed right into her), she was really nice. She was all smiles, warmly shook my hand, and all that. It was really cool. She even made a comment about how she wasn't supposed to be nice to us, and she'd better put on her 'mean' face.
When Roxann left the stage, there was a close shot of her blowing a kiss and mouthing, "I love you." If that was in your direction (as it seemed to be), then why is she saying you were rude and "coming on to" her? I would have dismissed it as an act if I hadn't seen her poor acting skills on the few Voyager episodes I could stomach and if I hadn't seen Slashdot posts to the effect that you wanted to apologize to her.
I have no idea what was going on with her. I had forgotten that she voted for me in the first round, and I really did think that she was playing with me. That's why I said that I was voting for her out of spite, because I thought she got the joke...but when we were in commercial breaks, and I tried to make sure that we were cool, she totally wouldn't talk to me, and was kinda cool and snippy towards me. After seeing her comments at the end of the show, I guess she really was pissed at me. Which made me feel really badly, because I never meant any disrespect, or anything like that.
Someone also mentioned that you were shocked when a producer called you arrogant. If you were acting arrogant for the show--and my wife says you seemed fairly humble on the Diary-L list a while back, so I tend to believe her--then people who are seeing you for the first time (like me) are going to think you're arrogant, even if people who know you know different.
Yeah. Thing is, I've done hundreds of shows for small, live, comedy club audiences in the past year. I was really playing to that studio audience, who totally got the joke. I should have been playing to the home audience, but I didn't think of that until later. I also think that the producer was saying that to get a rise out of me. They do that, you know. They want to get you riled up, so they can take the most indignant, bitchy, or nasty soundbyte and use it. I was very aware of that, and didn't want to fall into that trap. That may be why Roxann came off so mean towards me. She may have said funny things, and that's the only one they took.*shrug*
Bottom line is, I got 10K for the EFF, and that makes me happy. I also got to raise awareness for the EFF, and that is way more important to me than some stupid thing between two actors, or how I'm percieved.
- It was all in jest. My comments at the end of the show were in keeping with the spirit of our fun sparring. I wish I could even take credit for the idea. It was recomended that I say that by the producers. I thought it was funny.. Its a shame they cut away from my comment before I started laughing. The aim of the show is to create conflict... and I guessthey did. I didn't take offence to Bill Shatner saying he could take me in a fight. What does he think I am, a weak woman?!! LOL Come on everybody "lighten up" We were all having fun. Wil is great and I loved doing the show with him.
I agree... Wil is cool, Roxann was joking -- let's not start calling people names."Anything is better than IE, and you can quote me on that." -- Wil Wheaton.