Yes, The First Duty is excellent, and acknowledged by Wesley haters to be so, but then they add they like it because Wesley "gets told off". Which, err, is so not the point of that episode.
No arguments re: the general writing quality early on, and this impacting the characters. Mind you, here's a Wesley detail I've always appreciated in the definitely-found-its-feet-now era of the show, i.e. the third season, specifically, Best of Both World I: when Riker gives the order to ram the Borg Cube (just before Data has his breakthrough with Picard down in engineering), the episode took the seconds to give us a shot of Wesley reacting to the news he's just been told to turn kamikaze pilot. It's not verbalized, we just get the reaction shot, and you can see Wesley first horrified and then steeling himself to go through with it. It's that kind of thing which makes the character real for me.
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Date: 2018-09-01 09:40 am (UTC)No arguments re: the general writing quality early on, and this impacting the characters. Mind you, here's a Wesley detail I've always appreciated in the definitely-found-its-feet-now era of the show, i.e. the third season, specifically, Best of Both World I: when Riker gives the order to ram the Borg Cube (just before Data has his breakthrough with Picard down in engineering), the episode took the seconds to give us a shot of Wesley reacting to the news he's just been told to turn kamikaze pilot. It's not verbalized, we just get the reaction shot, and you can see Wesley first horrified and then steeling himself to go through with it. It's that kind of thing which makes the character real for me.