{"id":43472,"date":"2014-07-10T14:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/wil-wheaton-and-schrodingers-nielsen-box.html"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:47:00","slug":"wil-wheaton-and-schrodingers-nielsen-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/wil-wheaton-and-schrodingers-nielsen-box.html","title":{"rendered":"Wil Wheaton and\u00a0Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Nielsen Box"},"content":{"rendered":"
I've been enjoying The Wil Wheaton Project.<\/i>\u00a0It's loosened up quite a bit since the first episode as Wheaton has relaxed, which is all to the good, and the routines and segments have gotten a decent measure funnier and less forced. \u00a0It's still a hightly idiosyncratic offering, and plenty of misses to leaven the hits, but it's also a show that informs me about a whole bucket o' movies (and TV) that I'm not likely to watch (and, in most cases, are glad thereby). \u00a0For 30 minutes, minus commercials, that's a worthwhile weekly effort.<\/p>\n

And, yes, it's pretty crazy that entire shows (or a lot more segments from them) aren't being pushed out there actively by Syfy. But networks, go figure.<\/p>\n

I hope the cat's alive when the Nielsen Box is opened.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Nielsen BoxWIL WHEATON dot NET | WIL WHEATON dot NET<\/a>
\n The last three episodes of The Wil Wheaton Project (105, 106, 107) are pretty much what I wanted this show to be all along. I feel like it’s a good blend of\n <\/p>\n

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I've been enjoying The Wil Wheaton Project.\u00a0It's loosened up quite a bit since the first episode as Wheaton has relaxed, which is all to the good, and the routines and segments have gotten a decent measure funnier and less forced. \u00a0It's still a hightly idiosyncratic offering, and plenty of misses to leaven the hits, but … Continue reading “Wil Wheaton and\u00a0Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Nielsen Box”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42236,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/i-love-you-wil-but.html","url_meta":{"origin":43472,"position":0},"title":"I love you, Wil, but …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-May-14 11:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watched the premiere episode of the \"Wil Wheaton Project\" on Syfy tonight. 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